(NEW YORK) — With its copyright expiring, new copies of Adolf Hitler’s manifesto Mein Kampf may soon be pritned in Germany for the first time in 70 years.
The Bavarian regional government had banned reprinting the book after World War II, but with the copyright expiring, the Institute of Contemporary History in Munich plans to publish a new edition this month, BBC News reports.
The new version, which will be annotated with thousands of academic notes, aims to show how incoherent and poorly written the book is.
New versions are expected in many countries.
After Nazi Germany was defeated, the copyright for the book was handed to the state of Bavaria. Under German law, copyrights last 70 years.
Originally published in 1925, almost a decade before Hitler ascended to power, Mein Kampf was widely available during World War II. While new copies could not be printed since then, the existing copies were still available.
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