Historian keen to republish Hitler’s book

A German historian is campaigning to get Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf published in Germany for the first time since World War Two, warning that a delay could turn the controversial book into a sensation.

But his drive has been criticised by Jewish groups, who say publishing the book too early would offend Holocaust survivors and send the wrong signal about Germany.

Hitler dictated the book while in prison in Bavaria following the failed Munich Beer Hall putsch of 1923. It outlines a doctrine of German racial supremacy and ambitions to annex vast areas of the Soviet Union.