When was hitlers mein kampf written

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Still, he did use the disaster Historians say the book helps academics understand what happened in the Nazi era. Its annotated version, with thousands of academic notes, will aim to show that Mein Kampf My Struggle is incoherent and badly written, rather than powerful or seductive. Many Jewish groups have welcomed this particular publication, saying it is important to have access to a critical edition to help explain the Holocaust, reports the BBC's Damien McGuinness in Berlin.

Mein Kampf was originally printed in - eight years before Hitler came to power. After Nazi Germany was defeated in , the Allied forces handed the copyright to the book to the state of Bavaria. The local authorities have refused to allow the book to be reprinted to prevent incitement of hatred, although the book was so widely printed during the war that it remained relatively easily available.

Translator Olivier Mannoni called Hitler's manifesto an "incoherent soup. The translation is accompanied by lengthy historians' notes and annotations that make up most of the book. In France, the first edition of Mein Kampf came out in , and attempted to improve on Hitler's writing. By that time he was chancellor of Germany, where his book had become a bestseller. Today, antisemitism is again on the rise across Europe, watchdog groups say. So is the far right.

While printed copies of Mein Kampf have stagnated worldwide, digital editions have surged in recent years, although publishers point to a mix of reasons. Last year, Amazon banned most editions of the book from its site. Ninety-six-year-old Holocaust survivor Ginette Kolinka speaks to French school groups about her memories.

She told French radio she never read Mein Kampf — mostly, she says, because she had other books to read. But she says young people need to read everything — good and bad — to form opinions for themselves, and eventually understand tolerance. The Fayard translation project has been controversial.