Bavaria to release Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf Holocaust survivors and their families have expressed fears that neo-Nazis could seize upon the book as propaganda. A court in the state capital Munich ruled in March that British publisher Peter McGee would violate Bavaria's copyright on the work if he went ahead with plans to sell excerpts with explanations and commentary on German news-stands. Mr McGee has vowed to appeal the decision. Hitler wrote "Mein Kampf" ("My Struggle"), in 1924 while in a Bavarian prison, and combined elements of autobiography with his views on Aryan "racial purity," his hatred of Jews and his opposition to communism. Millions of copies were distributed before his death in 1945. It is not banned as such in Germany but since the end of the Second World War, Bavaria - which holds the rights until the end of 2015 - has not permitted reprints. From 2016, third parties will be able to release copies of the work without obtaining permission from the state "unless it is used to incite racial hatred," Mr Soeder said.