The secretary-general of Germany's Jewish community has said that the ban on Adolf Hitler's book 'Mein Kampf' should be lifted. Stephan Kramer, of the Central Council of Jews, said his organisation was prepared to help to edit the text so it could be published together with editorial comments. He has called on the Bavarian state government, which holds the rights to the book, to lift the 1945 ban. Published in 1925, Mein Kampf [My Struggle] combines elements of Hitler's autobiography with his views of Aryan racial supremacy and his hatred of Jews and other people.
Speaking on German radio, Kramer said he believed an edition of Mein Kampf should be made available online, as the book could already be read in most countries. In Germany, it is illegal to distribute the book except in special circumstances. A number of historians have called on Germany to lift the ban in recent years, some of them Jewish.
