Mein Kampf to go on sale in Germany after 70 years from next month

For 70 years since the Nazi defeat in the Second World War, copyright law has been used in Germany to prohibit the publication of Mein Kampf — the notorious anti-Semitic tome in which Adolf Hitler set out his ideology.

That will change next month when a new edition with critical commentary, the product of several years’ work by a publicly funded institute, hits the shelves.

While historians say it could help fill a gap in Germans’ knowledge of the era, Jewish groups are wary and German authorities are making it clear that they still won’t tolerate any new Mein Kampf without annotations.