Buying Mein Kampf via the Net

[Lizard]

At 04:20 PM 12/2/2000, Danny Yee wrote:
> > Actually, the *US* copyright was siezed by the US government at the
> > beginning of the war and not returned to Germany until the last decade or
> > so.  So there are plenty of US copies that would remain legal.
>
>In Australia at least, I think Mein Kampf is now out of copyright (it's
>still 50 years from death of author here).

Really? Doesn't the Berne convention override national laws?

If not...what would the odds be of the Aussies setting up "Gutenberg Down 
Under" to host works that won't leave copyright in the US and Europe for 
decades, if ever?