Though young readers could also find Mein Kampf on the Internet or perhaps in their grandparents’ attics, the book has for seven decades lived a shadow existence as a contraband item that was too hot to touch. The book, or even significant excerpts from it, have never been part of the German school curriculum—even though postwar Germany’s first president, Theodor Heuss, recommended just such a step in 1959. Now, says Germany’s education minister, Johanna Wanka, Mein Kampf can be taught in the schools because “Hitler’s statements will no longer be uncontradicted.”
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