Berlin: For the first time since Hitler's death, Germany is publishing the Nazi leader's political treatise Mein Kampf, unleashing a highly charged row over whether the text is an inflammatory racist diatribe or a useful educational tool. The 70-year copyright on the text, written by Adolf Hitler between 1924-1926 and banned by the Allies at the end of World War II, expires at the end of the year, opening the way for a critical edition with explanatory sections and some 3500 annotations. After the expiry of the copyright, there is a very big risk that this sorry effort of a...
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