The Institute was founded in 1949 to study and analyze the Nazi era.Hitler wrote “Mein Kampf” — German for “my struggle” — in a Bavarian jail after a failed 1923 Nazi uprising.

The intention is to set the work in historical context, to show how the murderous dictator wove truth with half-truths and outright lies, and thus to defang any propagandistic effect while revealing Nazism.

The notes will include comments condemning Hitler’s arguments. Bavaria has banned reprints up until now. “It is also a symbol and it is one of the last relics of the Third Reich”. From the absurd – including Hitler-themed toilet paper and booze – to the more intellectual, including the 2004 movie “Downfall” and a newly filmed version of the best-selling comic novel “Look Who’s Back“, there seems to be a growing ease with mentioning Hitler’s name in polite company. “A Critical Edition” will be limited to between 3,500 and 4,000 copies, he told AFP. According to The Local.de, the edition will cost 59 euros (about $62). The Nazis organized special distribution programs, disseminating the book to specific groups, like newlyweds.

With the copyright gone, the historians see themselves obliged to be the ones to republish.

The region of Bavaria in Germany-which was given the rights to the book by the Allies in 1945- has refused to publish Mein Kampf, which means “my struggle”, for 70 years.

Nevertheless, many in Germany believe the book that outlined strategies for establishing the Nazi regime and genocidal practices to exterminate whole peoples must not have any space in modern times.

The almost 2,000-page book combines a memoir of failures, both Hitler’s and Germany’s, with an explanation of how to gain political power and an anti-Semitic rant that laid the foundation for German oppression of Jews prior to and during the war.