Mein Kampf will be sold in Germany in early 2016 to 59 euros

Mein Kampf will be sold in Germany in early 2016 to 59 euros

The Munich Institute for Contemporary History has prepared a critical edition of Hitler's pamphlet, which will fall into the public domain. This is to break the myth, say the historians.

For the first time since the end of the Third Reich, an annotated edition of Mein Kampf released in Germany in early January, the rights to the pamphlet of Adolf Hitler falling into the public domain in 2016, announced the Institute responsible for this reissue.

"Breaking the myth"
"This is to break the myth" surrounding this book explains Andreas Wirsching, director of the Institute of Contemporary History (IFZ) in Munich. "It would have been irresponsible to let the book go hand to hand without being commented," He has also stressed in a meeting with foreign journalists in Berlin. Even before royalty-free, text Hitler was already readily available on the internet.

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The book published by the Institute of Contemporary History includes the text of the Nazi dictator and annotations 3500, will have two volumes totaling 1948 pages and will be sold 59 euros, said the head of the Institute which works since 2009 on this project. He published "between 8 and 11 January" in 4000 copies.

A release expected in France
This annotated edition, with sober coverage and simply titled Hitler, Mein Kampf. A critical edition is "scientific" wants while having "a political and moral basis" for Andreas Wirsching. "This is not only a source" for the knowledge of Nazi ideology, also found the historian responsible for this project, Christian Hartmann. "It is also a symbol and it is one of the last relics of the Third Reich," he said.

In France, an annotated edition of this book, which exposes the Nazi theory behind the extermination of six million Jews, must also be published next year by Fayard.