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The German government will lose copyright of Hitler's infamous book "Mein Kampf" in 2016, which means they can no longer uphold their 70-year-old ban on it. Germany is already threatening to ban any educational rerelease of the book out of fear it will "advance" the Nazi ideology again.

Hitler was one of the wealthiest authors of all time. He accumulated a vast personal wealth from the royalties of his book Mein Kampf. As his fame rose, his income reached the equivalent of nearly $12M a year. This effectively allowed him to buy his way to Chancellor.

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1. Henry Ford bought the weekly newspaper "The Dearborn Independent" in 1919 and imposed a quota on Ford dealerships to distribute them. The paper was so famously anti-Semitic that Hitler quoted "The Dearborn Independent" in his famous book: "Mein Kampf".

2. Although Mein Kampf was a bestselling book in Nazi Germany, neither Hitler nor his political allies actually liked it. Mussolini called it "a boring tome that I have never been able to read" and Hitler dismissed it as "fantasies behind bars" and said he wished he had never written it.

3. When an English translation of Mein Kampf was released, US Senator Alan Cranston published a different translation which he believed to be more accurate. In 1939, Hitler sued Cranston for copyright violation; the judge ruled in Hitler's favor and publication of the book was halted.

4. There is a Japanese manga adaptation of Adolf Hitler's infamous book, Mein Kampf.

5. Hitler later said of Mein Kampf, first published on this day in 1925, "If I had had any idea in 1924 that I would have become Reich chancellor, I never would have written the book."

6. Hitler wrote another book after Mein Kampf in 1928. The book wasn't published because Hitler worried it would hurt the sales of Mein Kampf.

7. After Hitlers death, copyright of Mein Kampf went to the Bavarian state government and copying/printing of the book was refused. The copyright expired in 2016 and the first copy was republished since 1945

8. That, before he became a U.S. Senator, Alan Cranston was a news correspondent and published his own translation of Mein Kampf. In 1939, Hitler's publisher sued Cranston for copyright violation in Connecticut; a judge ruled in Hitler's favor and publication of the book was halted.

9. One of the blueprints for Hitler's genetic theories in Mein Kampf was from a book written by a wealthy American

10. Bavaria owns the publishing rights to Mein Kampf, the book Hitler wrote when he was imprisoned in which he outlined his political ideology and future plans for Germany. It is scheduled to enter the public domain on 1 January 2016.

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Lord Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scout movement found Hitler's book Mein Kampf to be a "A wonderful book, with good ideas on education, health, propaganda, organisation etc."

The Bavarian Government owns the copyright to Mein Kampf, and the profits that come from the book are distributed to relevant charities. - source

An American, Madison Grant, wrote a book called "The Passing of the Great Race" that Hitler would eventually call 'my Bible' in personal correspondence and would serve as a primary source in writing 'Mein Kampf' - source

While royalties for the sale of Hitler's "Mein Kampf" were initially donated to charities after his death, the publishers are struggling to find any organisation willing to accept the "tainted" money from the book's royalties.

Nazi leader Adolf Hitler devoted three chapters of his 1925/26 book Mein Kampf, to the study and practice of propaganda - source

Hitler wrote a second book called Zweites Buch in 1928, but did not publish it because Mein Kamf did not sell well and his publisher told him that a second book might hinder sales even more

There's a novel called Berlin Without Jews that describes a right-wing nationalist party taking power in Germany and expelling all German Jews. The book was published in 1925 - the same year that Mein Kampf was published.

After "Mein Kampf," another book of Hitler's writings was later published under the imaginative title of "Hitler's Second Book."

Henry Ford published a 4-volume book about Jews that inspired Hitler, resulting in Ford being the only American mentioned in "Mein Kampf"