Three months after it was published, the new annotated edition of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf has already sold 47,500 copies and made it to the top of the prestigious Spiegel bestseller list in Germany.

The edition was promoted as the "anti-Mein Kampf" because it included footnotes providing detailed criticisms of the original work.

But Bettina Schwitzke, a member of the Berlin Jewish community and former "Limmud" chair, said: "My grandmother, a Shoah survivor, would have been quite shocked to hear about this successful publication in Germany." Mein Kampf was, more than any other book, associated with evil she said.

Ms Schwitzke was also troubled by the fact that the critical edition was financed by the state and that the Munich-based Institute for Contemporary History that produced the book was allowed to make a profit from it. Profits should be donated to survivors, she said.