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No, that book has been in the public domain in Germany since 2015. Since then several annotated editions have been published.

IANAL, but it might be problematic to publish a modern version without any critical commentary as this could be interpreted as "glorifying naziism and the holocaust in public" which is a crime in Germany (ยง 130 StGB [1]).

Before 2015 it was not banned in a political sense. The state of Bavaria claimed Hitlers copyright after the war and did not grant any rights to republish it. Ownership or sale of historical editions was always possible.

The project Gutenberg block is by them because they lost a copyright court case in 2018 (which was about ~20 books by 3 authors). See the other comment with a detailed link. They were not required to deny access to the complete site but only to these specific works.

[1]https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_stgb/englisch_st...



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