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Germany's Controversial Release of Annotated Mein Kampf Sparks Bestseller Surge

Bavaria's expiration of Hitler's copyright leads to a heavily supervised republication, balancing historical reckoning with legal control

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After seven decades of strict copyright control by Bavaria, Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf entered the public domain in Germany at the end of 2015. Instead of banning or freely republishing the text, German authorities funded a critical, heavily annotated edition to prevent misuse and contextualize its hateful content. Des…
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Germany's Controversial Release of Annotated Mein Kampf Sparks Bestseller Surge After seven decades of strict copyright control by Bavaria, Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf entered the public domain in Germany at the end of 2015. Instead of banning or freely republishing the text, German authorities funde... Read the full IIPLA article: https://iipla.org/news/germany-s-controversial-release-of-annotated-mein-kampf-sparks-bestseller-surge

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