Friday, February 5, 2010

German historians plan reprint of Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' By Reuters


Edith Raim at the Institute of Contemporary History in Munich said Thursday it plans to issue an annotated version of Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf" (My Struggle) with editorial comments once the copyright expires at the end of 2015.

Banned since World War II, the anti-Semitic political work first published in 1925 became a school textbook after Hitler seized power in 1933.

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he Bavarian state government, which has held the copyright since the war, said it had no intention of relaxing its restrictions on the book's publication for now