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The first German edition of âMein Kampfâ since 1945 will be published in January. Gerhard Weinberg, a historian who fled Nazi Germany as a child, says itâs about time. Photograph by Hugo Jaeger / Timepix / The LIFE Picture Collection / Getty. When Gerhard Weinberg returned to Germany in 1962, he hadnât seen his hometown of Hannover for more than twenty years. The buildings on his old street, rebuilt after the relentless bombings of the war, looked brand new. He stopped across the street from his familyâs old apartment building.