A team of historians has vowed to complete the first German scholarly edition
of Adolf Hitler’s antisemitic manifesto Mein Kampf, despite the
threat of prosecution from the state of Bavaria.

The edition was commissioned by Bavaria to become the standard German version
when the work’s copyright, held by the southern state, expires at the end of
next year, but it withdrew its support after pressure from Jewish groups.
Academics at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich are continuing
to work on an annotated edition, believing that any prosecution brought
under laws against incitement of racial hatred will fail.

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