Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” to be reprinted
The government of Bavaria intends to reprint Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf" (My Struggle). The copyright law for printing the book was transmitted to the Bavarian government in 1945.
According to ITAR-TASS, the government of the formerly federal land of Germany used to prevent the printing of any book about the life of the leader of the Third Reich by using the copyright law, which ends in 2015, 70 years after Hitler's death.
The Ministry of Finance of Bavaria is concerned that the "Mein Kampf" to be printed three years later will be highly successful and may help arouse the views of right-wing extremists in German society.
Bavarian Finance Minister Marcus Zeder has announced that the goal of the project is "to show how absurd Hitler's "Mein Kampf" is and not make it beneficial to be printed by other publishing houses".
Adolf Hitler wrote the book in 1924 in jail where he was sentenced to after the coup d'etat in 1923.
"Mein Kampf" was printed in 12 million copies in 1945.
