Hitler's anti-Semitic rant, which he wrote from prison in the early 1920s, loses its copyright in Germany today, and the country's first release of it since 1945 is due out soon in the form of an extensively annotated version.
The copyright had been held by the German state of Bavaria, to which it was granted by the victorious Allies after World War II, and now enters the public domain.
Mein Kampf -- which means "My Struggle" -- does not face a total legal ban in the Jewish state, but any large-scale publication remains forbidden, the Israeli culture ministry says.
Even if there were no restrictions at all, publishers say there is still stigma around the book in a country formed after the Holocaust inspired by Hitler's writings.
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According to the Foundation for the Benefit of Holocaust Survivors in Israel, 180,000 of them live in the Jewish state.
"My wife is a Holocaust survivor," he said. "We have a built-in censorship on this book, in spite of being very much against censorship (generally)."
In many countries, including some of Israel's Arab neighbours, copies of the book are widely available. It can also be found on the Internet, including in Israel, so those keen to access it are able to do so.
"The book is available online," Dan Michman, head of the Yad Vashem International Institute for Holocaust Research, pointed out.
But the book is also available in a shortened version in Hebrew in Israeli universities, the result of a campaign in the late 1980s by Holocaust survivor Dan Yaron.
Yaron, who died in 1999, fought for the book, totally forbidden until then, to be published in Hebrew for educational purposes.
"He said it was important for the people to know and to prevent future such events by reading what the (Nazi) leader was saying," Michman told AFP, saying Yaron approached him to publish it but there was no money at the time.