The Board of Deputies has given a cautious welcome to the publication of Adolf Hitler’s notorious book Mein Kampf for the first time since the Second World War.
A new edition of the work, which details the Nazi leader’s antisemitic beliefs, is to be released in January by the Instistute of Contemporary History in Munich, with extensive annotations explaining the historical context.
German Jews are divided over the move, but Richard Verber, vice president of the Board, said the attempt to give perspective to the origins of Nazism should not be rejected.
He told the Observer: “We would, of course, be very wary of any attempt to glorify Hitler or to belittle the Holocaust in any way. But this is not that. I do understand how some Jewish groups could be upset and nervous, but it seems it is being done from a historical point of view and to put it in context..
