Jewish leaders in Germany remain divided on whether or not to endorse the educational use of a new, annotated edition of Hitler's Mein Kampf due out in January.
When a teachers' organisation said last week that it hoped to use the scholarly edition in classrooms for pupils age 16 and up, the suggestion was met with firm opposition from Charlotte Knobloch, former head of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, who was hidden by righteous gentiles in Germany during the war.
Ms Knobloch, speaking to the Handelsblatt newspaper last weekend, said that Hitler's hate-filled text should not see the light of day in any classroom until pupils have learned something about Judaism and about the rich history of Jews in Germany.
Jews should not be associated with the Holocaust alone, warned Ms Knobloch, who is head of the Jewish community of Munich and Bavaria.
