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The Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung was a weekly photo newspaper published in Berlin by Ullstein AG, and read by just about everybody in the capital of Nazi Germany. Each 10 x 14 inch issue contained the very latest news, photographs and information gathered from around the world including plenty from the United States and England.   The excellent paper was published every week and sold for only 20 Reichspfennigs, the equivalent of 8 US cents.

Offered on this USMBOOKS web page is every issues for the extremely historic year of 1941 (January through December) bound in two big, heavy 11 x 15 inch hard cover books! Because they were bound like a hard cover book all the issues are still in excellent condition.

Naturally, Nazi Party Führer and German Chancellor Adolf Hitler is prominently featured in every issue, heard from or seen in his role as leader of the government, but also as Chief of the Armed Forces. The 1940 German invasion of the west had been a huge success and the war in the Balkans, Greece and North Africa was in full swing and the summer 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union also got in-depth coverage in these newspapers which have superb photo content.

Many prominent Nazis are featured, from Reichsminister Hermann Göring, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Dr. Joseph Goebbels, as well as Il Duce Benito Mussolini, etc. These issues of the Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung also contain anti-Semitic articles, short stories, crossword puzzles, timely jokes and cartoons as well as sport and cultural news and photos of German movie stars, European royalty and on foreign military strongmen.

These 1941 issues of the Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung contain articles about Kriegsmarine Captain Prien, ethnic Germans living outside Nazi Germany, the Japanese Armed Forces, SA Stabchef Viktor Lutze's 50th birthday, the Maginot Line, Luftwaffe air raids on London and their damage, Luftwaffe Geschwader Mölders on a ski holiday, Italian air force aces, Fort Eben Emael, Nazi submarines and U-Boot crews, Lisbon, Barracks Life in the East and on the island of Sicily, Ski Championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo, German and British troops in North Africa (many photos of Rommel), Hitler meeting with Japanese and Bulgarian dignitaries, Hermann and Emmy Göring and their daughter Edda on vacation at the Reichsjägerhof Rominten, Field Marshal List and Wehrmacht troops in Bulgaria, famous conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler on a ski vacation in St. Anton, a Luftwaffe Conference in a fancy chateau France chaired by Hermann Göring and attended by General der Flieger Hans Jeschonnek, Generaloberst Udet and Oberleutnant Mölders, Black Africa as pictured by a black photographer, Hitler's birthday, British tourists on the French Riviera, war in Greece, the capitulation of Serbia, the Wehrmacht in Croatia, USA in the Spring of 1941, men of the the Deutsche Afrikakorps photographed by PK Eric Borchert, Kriegsmarine victories on the Atlantic, Fallschirmjäger land in Corinth and on Crete, the death of Kaiser Wilhelm II in Holland, Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop and Count Ciano in Venice, the invasion of the Soviet Union (fighting in cities and in forests, Luftwaffe attacks, Nazi tank troops in action, POWs, war damage, civilian population, wounded Wehrmacht soldiers, etc., etc.), German Lebensraum in Finland, Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, the 1941 Greater German Art Exhibition in the House of German Art in Munich, Hitler and his Generals at his headquarters at Rastenburg, Göring and his men at his headquarters in "a forest in the east", Feldmarschall Mannerheim, Mussolini's visit to Hitler's headquarters at Rastenburg, European Youth Sport Championships at Breslau, Luftwaffe Ace and Knight's Cross recipient Hauptmann Werner Baumbach, the Biennale Film Festival in Venice, "Soviet Paradise", the Mufti of Jerusalem in Berlin, and much, much more.

These newspapers also contain many small photos with captions announcing minor news such as the death of the father of Foreign Minister Von Ribbentrop, a photo of Rudolf Hess' son Wolf-Rudiger with a big dog, Lord Halifax and his wife, Native American protests in America, Luftwaffe Ace Adolf Galland signing autographs, brothers Albrecht and Hubert Lanz receiving the Knight's Cross from Hitler, Al Capone, Australian soldiers in Singapore, gasoline shortages in Switzerland, the diplomatic missions of FDR's son James, the death of famous Kriegsberichter Leutnant Eric Borchert outside Tobruk, Hitler and his old Nazi battle friends in Munich on 9 November 1941, the death of Ernst Udet and his funeral attended by Hitler and Göring, Jews and Communists in the USA, Hitler's response to President Roosevelt in December 1941, Bomb Fever in New York, etc. ,etc.

There is advertising for every kind of German consumer product from cigarettes to toothpaste and ladies underwear, pimple cream to razor blades: Blaupunkt, Nivea, Wybert, Agfa, UHU glue, Bayer Aspirin, Bols Liqueur, Zeiss Ikon, Kraft Velveeta cheese, 4711 Eau de Cologne, Volume 3 of the soldier songbook Das neue Soldaten-Liederbuch, Dr. Oetker, Mercedes typewriters, Voigtländer and Exakta cameras, Deutsche Reichslotterie, Ewald Vorsteher BEVO of Wuppertal, Cinzano, and even illustrated ads for the new UfA movies Wunschkonzert, Sieg im Westen and Über alles in der Welt.

The pages in the two big 11 x 15 inch hardcover books are in very good condition. Complete, no torn pages, no articles or photos cut out. About 11 pounds of very rare World War II photo material in 53 issues of 1941 Berliner Illustrierte Zeitungl!  RARE!