More than 80 years after it was first published - and later outlawed - in Germany, a signed copy of Adolf Hitler's infamous manifesto “Mein Kampf” was sold Thursday for 21,000 pounds ($34,900). The semi-autobiographical work outlining Hitler's anti-Semitic ideology, was sold to an anonymous telephone bidder at an auction in the town of Ludlow in western England. Written in 1924 while Hitler was serving a four-year prison term in the southern German region of Bavaria, the book was first published in 1926. “I am absolutely pleased,” said Richard Westwood-Brookes from Mullock's Auctioneers. He said he believed the second-edition book to be a prepublication copy given by Hitler to a fellow inmate in 1925, making it a “highly prized article.”
