The Estate of the Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels has won its lawsuit against Random House publishing company in the case the 1709 Blog first flagged up in AprilPeter Longerich, professor of modern German history at Royal Holloway College at the University of London, published a new biography of Goebbels in 2010, originally in German, quoting extensively from Goebbels' diaries. Cordula Schacht – a lawyer whose own father, Hjalmar Schacht, was Hitler’s minister of economics and who claims to represent Goebbel's heirs – brought an action in the Munich District Court against Random House and its imprint Siedler, despite the fact that under Germany law the term of copyright for literary works (life of author plus 70 years) meant Goebbel's work will enter the public domain on the 1st January 2016 (which the Munich court noted). No royalties were paid by Random House to the Estate, which is thought to consist of the direct…
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