Hitler’s antisemitic manifesto Mein Kampf has once again become a bestseller in German bookstores.
Over 85,000 copies have been sold since its re-release last year, with publisher Andreas Wirsching telling the BBC that “the figures have overwhelmed us.”
The new copies, set for a sixth print run, include critical notes by scholars. The book also features a plain white cover due to German laws banning Nazi-era symbols such as the swastika
Mein Kampf [My Struggle in German] was first published in 1925, eight years before Hitler rose to power. At the time, the text became wildly successful, selling 12 million copies in Germany before the end of The Second World War, according to Reuters.
The Munich-based publishing house Institute of Contemporary History (IfZ) had decided to place the book back on the market after its 70-year copywrite expired on January 1, 2016, allowing it to be published in the country for the first time since the late 1940s.
