'Mein Kampf' to be republished in Germany 70 years after Hitler's death

December 02, 2015 19:55

There may be no taboo greater in Germany than to republish Adolf Hitler manifesto's, "Mein Kampf." But historians in Munich are about to break it.

The Institute for Contemporary History is reprinting the murderous dictator's book and will sell it in bookstores for 59 euros ($63) a copy, starting in January.

It will not appear in its original form but will be heavily annotated to expose the "lies, half-truths and vicious tirades," the institute says, behind a Nazi vision of hostility that ended in the deaths of tens of millions of people in World War II.

Republication is possible in Germany because the copyright on "Mein Kampf" ("My Struggle") runs out on December 31, 70 years after Hitler's death.

At the end of World War II, the Allies transferred the copyright to the German state of Bavaria, which applied it to enforce a ban on reprints.

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