The German state of Bavaria is considering the publication of a book featuring excerpts from Hitler's Mein Kampf for use in schools after its legal power to ban the book expires in 2016, Reuters reported.

The Bavarian state finance ministry owns the copyrights to the book. But the copyrights expire on December 31, 2015, forcing Bavaria to face the question of how to handle the publication of a book that remains highly controversial in Germany.

In addition to a school edition, the finance ministry is also considering the publication of a separate edition, which would include an academic commentary provided by the Munich-based Institute for Contemporary History.

The ministry would provide 200,000 euros and the state's economy ministry would chip in another 300,000 euros for the projects.

(China.org.cn April 27, 2012)

路透社報道，德國的巴伐利亞州正在考慮在2016年希特勒《我的奮斗》一書的法律禁令過期后出版一本學校用節選本。

巴伐利亞州的財政部持有該書的版權。但是版權將在2015年12月31日過期，使得巴伐利亞不得不考慮怎樣出版這樣一本在德國很敏感的書籍。

除了學校版外，財政部還策劃另一獨立版本，這個版本將帶有慕尼黑當代歷史研究院所做的學術評注。

該部門將拿出20萬歐元，同時經濟部再拿出30萬歐元資助這兩個項目。