The worst kept secret in Bavaria is the BMW M2 coupe, and it will break cover at the Detroit motor show in January. The Bavarian premium giant has finally relented after being bombarded with pleas for a smaller, lighter, more agile machine than its entry-level M3 and M4 models. So it will front up in Detroit with a new baby rear-drive coupe, based on the 2-Series bodyshell, complete with a 272bhp, 465Nm turbo- charged inline six cylinder engine and all Read more [...]

Mein Kampf, or My Struggle, Adolf Hitler's hate-filled screed that paved the way for the Holocaust, is set to be printed for the first time in Germany since the end of World War II next month. Is that a good idea? Or a very bad one? It's certainly controversial. After the Allied nations' victory over the German Nazi party in 1945, Mein Kampf copyright fell to the state of Bavaria, which promptly banned its publication in Germany. But as of Jan. 1, 70 years will have passed since the year of its Read more [...]

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 [...]

A new, annotated version of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf will go on sale in Germany for the first time in 70 years from Saturday after the copyright expires. The copyright was previously owned by the state of Bavaria - which has banned the book over fears of exploitation by far-right and neo-Nazi groups - but it will expire on New Year's Day and anyone will be able to reproduce it. In a bid to counter any far right groups using the book to promote their agenda, four academics from the Read more [...]

In 1882 the American journalist and writer Lew Vanderpoole requested an audience of King Ludwig II of Bavaria (1845-1886), because he needed the king’s help for the settlement of a complicated heritage. The interview was business-like, until King Ludwig noticed an article about Edgar Allan Poe among the many papers on the table, an article that Vanderpoole was writing for a French magazine. The king suddenly became excited, and with shining eyes he turned to Vanderpoole: “Is it a personal Read more [...]

By mid-January 2016, bookstores all over Germany will start selling new edition copies of Hitler's controversial political treatise, "Mein Kampf". The new publication currently sparked debates on whether it will be a useful educational tool as per its intended use, or a bad idea in general.This will be the first time Germany has published Mein Kampf since Hitler's death in 1945, at a time when the country is still sensitive of its Nazi regime and Holocaust past. The release of this new edition Read more [...]

Anguish as reprints of 'Mein Kampf' planned for new year Berlin (AFP) - The copyright of Hitler's "Mein Kampf" expires 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 Read more [...]