New edition of Hitler’s Mein Kampf goes on sale in German bookshops and sells out instantly
- Mein Kampf had more than 15,000 orders despite only printing 4,000 copies
- German state of Bavaria refused to publish book for 70 years
- Copyright expired on January and new edition will cost 59 euros (£43)
- Munich’s Institute for Contemporary History curated annotated edition
- Hitler wrote notorious racist manifesto while in jail in 1924
Adolf Hitler’s autobiography Mein Kampf was an instant sellout when it hit bookstores in Germany for the first time since the Second World War.
More than 15,000 advance orders were placed, despite the initial print of 4,000 copies, with one copy even put up for resale on Amazon.de for €9,999.99 (£7,521.43).
Mein Kampf, which means My Struggle, returned into the public domain on January 1.
Ian Kershaw, a Briton who is a leading biographer of Hitler, joined Friday’s book presentation and said it was ‘high time for a rigorously academic edition of Mein Kampf’ to be made available.
‘For years, I have considered the lifting of the ban on publication long overdue,’ Kershaw said.
History is repeating itself as we speak. Lieing is celebrated by the Socialist-Communist factions.