The copyright on Hitler's infamous Mein Kampf is running out in Germany, and so they've been debating for quite a while now what the hell to do about that.
Apparently they've settled on a scholarly edition being made available -- an unannotated/explicated plain-text version apparently remains out of bounds (prohibitable not on copyright but potential-incitement grounds).
The Institut für Zeitgeschichte got the call, and apparently their critical edition should be available already shortly after the copyright runs out, in January 2016. In Die Zeit they report on some of the details -- including that the two-volume edition might extend to 2000 pages, some 780 of actual text and the rest taken up largely by the up to 5000 explanatory notes.
It'll be interesting to see whether annotation blunts the symbolic power of this ridiculous but far from harmless tome.
The Institut für Zeitgeschichte got the call, and apparently their critical edition should be available already shortly after the copyright runs out, in January 2016. In Die Zeit they report on some of the details -- including that the two-volume edition might extend to 2000 pages, some 780 of actual text and the rest taken up largely by the up to 5000 explanatory notes.
It'll be interesting to see whether annotation blunts the symbolic power of this ridiculous but far from harmless tome.