Ingo Beckendorf
On 15 December 2016, the German Federal Court (Bundesgerichtshof, BGH) decided that, a publisher has no right to demand compensation for the seizure of a journal with reprinted Nazi-propaganda, when he himself contributed to the initiation of preliminary proceedings with his risky behaviour (case no.: III ZR 387/14).
Since January 2009, a press-corporation from the UK distributed the weekly journal "Zeitungszeugen“ ("newspaper-witness”) in Germany. The journal covered the time of Nazism in Germany and the press-landscape back then. Each issue of the journal contained two or three facsimile-reprints of newspapers from one selected day during the time of…
