Mein Kampf 
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SOURCE: New York Times
6/2/2021
Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ Gets New French Edition, With Each Lie Annotated
The publishers, who will donate proceeds to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation, argue that with other versions of Hitler's manifesto circulating widely, a translation that preserves the incoherence and paranoia of the original with extensive debunking commentary is a positive contribution to efforts to fight the far right.
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SOURCE: Haaretz
9-28-18
The Netherlands’ Surprise New Best Seller: Hitler's ‘Mein Kampf’
A new annotated and critical edition of the manifesto is stirring controversy, with Dutch booksellers reluctant to even display ‘Mijn Strijd’.
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9-24-17
This Story About the Publishing of Mein Kampf Is Well-Known in France. Americans Need to Know It.
by Blake Smith
Rather than fight the publication of Hitler’s memoir, these French anti-Nazis raced to distribute it themselves.
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SOURCE: The Jerusalem Post
1-3-17
Hitler's manifesto 'Mein Kampf' becomes bestseller in Germany
Jewish groups in Germany have denounced the inflammatory book, which sold 4,000 copies during its first print run at the beginning of 2016.
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SOURCE: SFGate
7-1-16
'Mein Kampf' proceeds to aid Holocaust survivors
Boston-based publishing company has decided to donate proceeds from Adolf Hitler's infamous manifesto "Mein Kampf" to a local organization that works with aging Holocaust survivors.
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SOURCE: The Local
6-11-16
Italian paper offers readers Hitler's Mein Kampf
A rightwing Italian newspaper, owned by Silvio Berlusconi's brother, was today giving away free copies of Adolf Hitler’s anti-Semitic manifesto Mein Kampf in a move which sparked both shock and condemnation.
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SOURCE: PRNewswire
3-7-16
Hitler's Copy of "Mein Kampf" to be Auctioned with Other Personal Items
This rare 1927 edition is bound in red leather and has the title in gold print attached to its spine. It was kept by a soldier's daughter until only a few years ago.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
1-12-16
New Yorker says Mein Kampf isn’t a dangerous book any longer
by Adam Gopnik
Adam Gopnik says it is not so much diabolical or sinister as creepy.
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SOURCE: NYT
1-8-16
Mein Kampf,’ Hitler’s Manifesto, Returns to German Shelves
Scholars and historians spent three years preparing a 2,000-page edition with about 3,500 annotations in anticipation of the work entering the public domain.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
12-30-15
Gerhard Weinberg, a historian who fled Nazi Germany as a child, says it’s about time Germans get to read Hitler’s Mein Kampf in German
The first German edition since 1945 is set to appear in January.
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SOURCE: NYT
12-30-15
A Comic Book Recalls a Journalist’s Efforts to Expose the Evils of ‘Mein Kampf’
The comic, “The Book That Hitler Didn’t Want You to Read,” tells the story of how Alan Cranston — then a journalist, and years later a California senator — produced his own version of Hitler’s book, only to be sued by Hitler.
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SOURCE: Time Magazine
12-2-15
The Battle to Publish Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf in the U.S.
A team of historians is publishing a two-volume, 2,000-page German edition of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf for the first time in seven decades.
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SOURCE: BBC
1-13-15
Why did my grandfather translate Mein Kampf?
by John Murphy
Whenever I tell anyone that my Irish grandfather translated Hitler's Mein Kampf, the first question tends to be, "Why did he do that?" Quickly followed by, "Was he a Nazi?"
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SOURCE: NYT
7-7-14
Should Germans Read ‘Mein Kampf’?
by Peter Ross Range
The release of “Mein Kampf” into Germany’s cultural bloodstream is sure to be a sensational moment.
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SOURCE: HistoryNet
11-5-12
Mein Kampf: The Sequel
by Gerhard L. Weinberg
Hitler's second book wasn't suppressed, only mislaid.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
12-13-13
Bavarian U-turn over academic reprint of Hitler's Mein Kampf blurs ethics
Preventing the proliferation of Mein Kampf may feel the right thing to do – but it risks impeding those trying to demystify it.
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SOURCE: Time Magazine
1-7-14
Why Is Hitler’s Mein Kampf Topping eBook Charts?
Call it the 50 Shades of Grey effect.
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SOURCE: WaPo
6-17-13
Kim Jong Un handing out copies of "Mein Kampf"
Senior North Korean officials received copies of “Mein Kampf,” Adolf Hitler’s rambling prison memoir, as gifts for Kim Jong Un’s birthday this January, according to a report by New Focus International, a North Korean news organization that sources from defectors and volunteer citizens within the country.The famous Nazi autobiography was reportedly distributed as what’s called a “hundred-copy book,” which refers to Pyongyang’s practice of circulating an extremely limited number of copies among top officials, though most books are forbidden in North Korea. Gifts marking the leader’s birthday are typically imbued with special political significance.The book was apparently not distributed to endorse Nazism so much as to draw attention to Germany’s economic and military reconstruction after World War One. A North Korean who works on behalf of the country in China told New Focus that Kim gave a speech endorsing Germany’s inter-war revival and encouraging officials to read “Mein Kampf.”...
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