Berlin: The Bavarian parliament is debating whether an annotated version of Adolf Hitler's opus Mein Kampf should be authorised for educational use in schools and other establishments.

The 2000-page version of the text, which climbed to the top spot on Der Spiegel's non-fiction bestseller list this month, includes 3700 annotations that attempt to provide context to Hitler's anti-Semitic rhetoric and lay bare his Nazi propaganda.

Head of the editing team Christian Hartmann poses with a copy of the new edition of Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf" during the book launch in January. Credit:Getty Images

It was first released in January after the copyright handed over to a Bavarian ministry by the Allies after World War II expired. The ministry had refrained from republishing the text for seven decades for fear of stoking anti-Semitism.