Adolf Hitler's manifesto "Mein Kampf" is going back on Germany's bookshelves over 70 years after the dictator's death, according to NBC News.
A government-funded research institution called Germany's Institute of Contemporary History will be in charge of publishing the reprints.
"I understand some immediately feel uncomfortable when a book that played such a dramatic role is made available again to the public," said Magnus Brechtken, the institution's deputy director, The Washington Post reported.
"On the other hand, I think that this is also a useful way of communicating historical education and enlightenment - a publication with the appropriate comments, exactly to prevent these traumatic events from ever happening again," Brechtken added.
Some people have expressed their outrage over the decision, such as Levi Salomon, the spokesperson for Berlin's Jewish Forum for Democracy and Against Anti-Semitism, according to The Los Angeles Times. "I am absolutely against the publication of Mein Kampf, even with annotations. Can you annotate the Devil? Can you annotate a person like Hitler? This book is outside of human logic," Salomon said.
"Mein Kampf" is legal to print and buy in most parts of the world, but there have been suggestions to ban it entirely due to the anti-Semitic incidents that are occurring in the U.K..
The state of Bavaria, who owns the copy rights to Mein Kampf, banned all reprinting of the book after World War II. The rights will expire in December, and the reprints of the book are going to be released some time in 2016.
