Nearly 1.1 million refugees and migrants registered in Germany in 2015, a number five times more than last year, Bavaria's social minister Emilia Müller said on Wednesday. Most of the refugees arrived first in Bavaria after making their way from the war-torn Middle East through the Balkans and on to Germany. Some 160,000 refugees have stayed in Bavaria, while the rest have been distributed across Germany's 15 other federal states. The refugee crisis has created the divisions between Chancellor Read more [...]

A new version of Adolf Hitler's autobiography Mein Kampf is to go on sale in Germany for the first time since his death. Reprinting Mein Kampf - which means "My Struggle" - has been banned in the country since the end of the Second World War. But the copyright runs out on Friday, and a new edition, which includes Read more [...]

Berlin: The copyright of Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf" expires on Friday, with plans by several publishers for annotated reprints sparking fierce debate over how one of the world's most controversial books should be treated seven decades after the defeat of the Nazis. The southern German state of Bavaria was handed the copyright of the book in 1945, when the Allies gave it the control of the main Nazi publishing house. For 70 years, it refused to allow the anti-Semitic manifesto to be republished Read more [...]

The first German edition of “Mein Kampf” since 1945 will be published in January. Gerhard Weinberg, a historian who fled Nazi Germany as a child, says it’s about time. Credit Photograph by Hugo Jaeger / Timepix / The LIFE Picture Collection / Getty When Gerhard Weinberg returned to Germany in 1962, he hadn’t seen his hometown of Hannover for more than twenty years. The buildings on his old street, rebuilt after the Read more [...]