Adolf Hitlers Mein Kampf in Overwhelming Demand in Germany
Copies of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf  an autobiography outlining the Nazi leader's political ideology, which translates to My Struggle'  are in "overwhelming" demand, according to a German publisher. Andreas Wirsching, who publishes a special edition of the anti-Semitic book annotated by scholars, told the BBC that sales figures had "overwhelmed him and his team" since the manifesto's launch a year ago. Around 85,000 German-language copies of the edition published by Wirsching, who is also director of the Institute of Contemporary History IfZ in Munich, have been sold. The first print run in Germany in 2016 was 4,000 copies, the BBC reports. Last March, Hitler's personal copy of Mein Kampf sold for 20,655 in an auction of more than a thousand other World War II items.