Sales of a special edition of Hitler’s Mein Kampf have soared in Germany.
The book which outlines Hitler’s ideology that formed the basis for Nazism and sets out his hatred of Jews, which led to the Holocaust went on sale a year ago.
The Huffington Post reports that the new edition is the first reprint since World War Two, released last January after a 70-year copyright on the text expired at the end of 2015. It includes explanatory sections and some 3,500 annotations, and has sold 85,000 copies to the surprise of its publishers.
“These sales figures have taken us by storm,” Andreas Wirsching, who heads up the publishers, the Institute for Contemporary History (IfZ) The Huffington Post report continues.
“No-one could really have expected them,” he added.
Written between 1924 and 1926, Mein Kampf had sold 12 million copies and been translated into 18 languages by 1945.
