A new edition of the German dictator’s text with thousands of explanatory notes will be sold at bookshops with an initial print run limited to about 4,000
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For the first time since the second world war, Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf will be printed in Germany in January as an annotated edition, the institute publishing it has said.
The autobiographical text will return to the public domain at the start of the year and hit bookshops between 8 January and 11 January, 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 ($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 3,500 to 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.
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The autobiographical text will return to the public domain at the start of the year and hit bookshops between 8 January and 11 January, 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 ($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 3,500 to 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.
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