From: "Branko Collin" <collin@xs4all.nl>
I am afraid that is not really relevant. However, if the heirs want to submit the book for PG, that should be possible.
A couple of months ago, I did a little digging out of curiousity to find out who owned the copyright to Mein Kampf. Apparently it's the Austrian Government,who refuse to allow it to be published in Austria, but otherwise have no interest in it. But it's definitely still copyright by either US or life+70 countries' standards.
Rik Lambers' Constitional Code blog had some discussion on this topic (I should know :-)) at <http://constitutionalcode.blogspot.com/2005/04/mein-kampf- copyright.html>.
From what I understand, the German state of Bavaria seized the assets of Adolf Hitler after his death, including the copyright to Mein Kampf, and has been asserting its copyrigth aggressively since then.
In Life+50 countries (i.e. most of the globe), Mein Kampf should be public domain since 1996, but not in the US or the EU. -- branko collin collin@xs4all.nl