Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf, banned from German bookstores, will soon be available from newspaper kiosks after a British publisher said he would print excerpts from the text in Germany.
However, the state of Bavaria, which owns the copyrights to the Nazi vision of Aryan racial supremacy, said it was considering legal steps to block publication.
Reprinting the Nazi dictator’s autobiography, which outlines his ambitions to seize vast areas of land in eastern Europe to provide living space for the so-called master race, is outlawed in Germany except for academic study.
The first of three 16-page extracts from the book, accompanied by a critical commentary, will be published later this month with a print run of 100,000 each, said Peter McGee, head of London-based publishing firm Albertas.
“It is a sensitive subject in Germany, but the incredible thing is most Germans don’t have access to Mein Kampf because it has this taboo, this ‘black magic’ surrounding it,” he said.
“We want Mein Kampf to be accessible so people can see it for what it is, and then discard it. Once exposed, it can be consigned to the dustbin of literature,” he said.
The excerpts will be distributed as a supplement to the company’s weekly publication, a controversial series called Zeitungszeugen, or “Newspaper Witnesses,” which reprints pages of Nazi newspapers from the 1920s and 1930s, along with a commentary.
The latest edition of the series, which was released last week, has so far sold 250,000 copies, McGee said.
However, the Bavarian state finance ministry in southern Germany, which holds the copyrights, said on Monday the magazine supplement would breach copyright law.
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