Washington: Adolf Hitler’s autobiographical manifesto titled Mein Kampf is all set to get republished in Germany, it has been reported.
The reissue of the book is being done as the official rights of the book expire in December and a heavily annotated version of the book is expected to be released early 2016, People Magazine reported.
The reissue is causing a stir in Germany and across the world, but Germany’s Institute of Contemporary History, the taxpayer-funded group publishing the new version, is touting it as an academic tool.
Magnus Brechtken, the institute’s deputy director, said that he understood some immediately feel uncomfortable when a book that played such a dramatic role was made available again to the public.
Brechtken said that on the other hand, according to him this was also a useful way of communicating historical education and enlightenment.
The book has long been available in English and other foreign languages and reprints in Germany were banned after the end of World War II by the state of Bavaria, which owns the copyright.
