German prosecutors are investigating Yahoo! over the suspected
illegal auction of copies of Hitler's manifesto "Mein Kampf." The
announcement follows the recent decision against Yahoo! by a French
court, ordering the portal to ban access by French nationals to
certain on-line auctions selling Nazi memorabilia.
The case differs from the French dispute because the allegations
concern only Yahoo!'s German web site, Yahoo! Deutschland, not
yahoo.com, the site at the centre of the French case.
As in France, the sale of Nazi memorabilia is illegal in
Germany. According to the senior prosecutor for the state court in
Munich, unnamed senior Yahoo! officials are under investigation for
the auctions taking place on Yahoo!'s German site on 1st February
and 19th April this year.
A Yahoo! spokeswoman said that as soon as the company gets
information that illegal products are included in an auction on its
German site, it removes them.
