Mein Kampf ‘is published in the new version – Aftonbladet

For the first time in 70 years will “Mein Kampf” can be bought in Germany.

In the next week, a brand new, annotated version of Hitler’s works.

After World War II banned sales of “Mein Kampf” and the Allies gave the copyright to Bavaria.

Now, 70 years later, copyright has expired and it is free to publish and sell the book.

Given that the work had been sold extensively until the end of the war, the book, despite the ban on reprinting, has not been particularly difficult to access.

Reviewed version

In the next week given a completely new version out by the Institute for Contemporary History.

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It is an annotated edition with thousands of academic notes to help, for example historians to understand what happened during the Nazi era.

Also Jewish groups welcome reprint to get closer to a explanation for the Holocaust, reports the BBC’s Berlin correspondent Damien McGuinness.

“Mein Kampf” was written in 1925, eight years before Adolf Hitler came to power.