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The autobiographical text will return to the public domain at the start of the year and hit bookshops between January 8 and 11, said Andreas Wirsching, director of the Institute of Contemporary History (IFZ) in Munich.

The book, which adds context to the Nazi dictator's hateful rant with some 3,500 annotations, will be published in two volumes totalling 1,948 pages and sold at 59 euros ($62), said Wirsching, who has been working on the project since 2009.

The first run of "Hitler, Mein Kampf. A Critical Edition" would be limited to between 3,500 and 4,000 copies, he said.

Plans to publish the new version have been controversial and drawn fire especially from Jewish groups, who have argued the book is dangerous and should never be printed again.

But Wirsching said the re-publication of the text with expert commentary aims to "shatter the myth" surrounding the book, which Hitler wrote in 1924 while languishing in prison after a failed coup.

Authorities in the southern state of Bavaria were handed the copyright by Allied forces after World War II.

 

http://www.thelocal.de/20151201/hitlers-words-to-return-to-german-bookshelves

 

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Makes sense to get rid of such an outdated law. It was freely available on the Internet for anybody who really wanted it.

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Didymus

Good, it's an interesting text for sure. I might read this edition.

I find any voice against this quite comical, since you can get all sorts of "dangerous" stuff anywhere anyway. Someone who wants to be inspired by Hitler's ideas is not gonna pay attention to a critical edition of Mein Kampf. The book's been online for years now and anyone who's as smart as a 3-year old can find it within a minute on Google.

So good move tbh. Break the awkwardness surrounding this whole period. Debate is better than censorship.

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Queen Germany understanding that censorship kills any intelligent discussion and leads to a stupid population :applause:

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TiphEret

In a way if it aows us to compare is ideology with current extreme political party why not....

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2 minutes ago, ****Eliza said:

I'll just download it :green:

Must be an interesting read

i just googles a PDF of it :green: should be an interesting read

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Kulture Kiari

I mean, why not? Legal or illegal, we have two things called The Internet and Torrents. Besides, it's not as if we don't have Hitler 2.0. Reading this could give us a heads up on what Donald is planning next. 

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Morphine Prince

Should've been available years ago. Censorship doesn't do ****. If people actually wanted to be inspired by Hitler they would've easily gotten a hold of it on the Internet. I'm sure it is an interesting read and the a--lysis sounds like it would make it a good read. 

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I'm glad that it's back in print, I feel that when a book is hidden like that, it becomes more sought after and a prize, by making it publicly available, they're sort of diluting his message 

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