Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler’s two-volume anti-Semitic manifesto, could be added to the German high school curriculum after 70 years of restriction by the Bavarian government. Deutschen Lehrerverbandes, a German teachers’ association, says the introduction of an annotated version of the text could help “inoculate adolescents against politic extremism.”
Munich’s Institute of Contemporary History plans to publish Hitler, Mein Kampf. A Critical Edition in January. The new version extends the work to 2,000 pages with 3,500 annotations adding context to its inaccurate content.
Josef Kraus, president of the German Teachers Association, warned of the lure of the forbidden among young people:
What’s much more dangerous is remaining silent or completely banning the book. Nowadays, with the power of the Internet, everyone has access to everything. So it’s more important to me that something like this can be discussed in a differentiated and critical manner. (more...)
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