BERLIN -- For 70 years since the Nazi defeat in World War II, copyright law has been used in Germany to prohibit the publication of "Mein Kampf" -- the notorious anti-Semitic tome in which Adolf Hitler set out his ideology. That will change next month when a new edition with critical commentary, the product of several years' work by a publicly funded institute, hits the shelves. While historians say it could help fill a gap in Germans' knowledge of the era, Jewish groups are wary and German authorities Read more [...]

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Bavarian Prime Minister Horst Seehofer on Sunday urged to rethink the mechanism of economic sanctions against Russia and deescalate tensions between Moscow and Berlin, in an interview to local media. "Sanctions are doing enormous damage to the Bavarian economy and the national economy," the coalition partner of German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Bild am Sonntag. The European Union imposed sanctions on main Russian economic spheres – energy, defense and banking – Read more [...]