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NAZI EAGLE AND SWASTIKA
 3. Reich Zeitschrift Berlin–Rom–Tokio
Nazi library stamp
The big 10-1/2 x 14-1/2 inch heavily illustrated, beautifully printed Nazi monthly magazine called BERLIN • ROM • TOKIO was the official “Magazine for Deepening of Cultural Understanding within the Political Triangle” of Berlin, Rome and Tokyo, known in the United States, Australia, Canada, England (and other Allied countries) during World War II as the “Axis Powers”.

The beautifully laid out and splendidly printed high-quality magazine was published under the auspices of Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop by Ernst Steiniger Verlagsanstalt in Berlin during the Third Reich.

BERLIN • ROM • TOKIO, Magazine for Deepening of Cultural Understanding within the Political Triangle, Joachim von Ribbentrop
Japanese attack on China
1939 Wehrmacht invasion and victory in Poland
 
Minister Dr. Julius Dorpmüller, WHW, Scapa Flow U-Boot
This lot of six original 83 year old Nazi BERLIN • ROM • TOKIO magazines is in very good condition. Three of them have the 1 inch oval stamp of a library in Stuttgart on the cover. The rare magazines have tight spines and no odor.
Hitler and LSSAH Sepp Dietrich
Adolf Hitler and Hiroshi Oshima, Japanese Ambassador in Berlin
 
Hitler, Burgtheater Wien
 
Hitler Youth Memorial
 
Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano’s visit to the Berghof
 
The articles often feature the cream of the Diplomatic Corps of the three countries dressed in fancy uniforms, and their activities. Articles often discuss or feature the most widely known high-tech or traditional products of the industries of the Axis countries. The magazines used color printing in both editorial and advertising when it was still uncommon in many German magazines.
 
The six magazines in this lot are the July, August, September, October, November and December issues of BERLIN • ROM • TOKIO of the year 1939, with a total of 330 pages. Of course they include a lot of coverage of the German invasion and victory in Poland and the signing of the Non Aggression Pact (Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact) by Joachim von Ribbentrop and Joseph Stalin in Moscow on the night of 23-24 August 1939.
Japanese art in BERLIN • ROM • TOKIO
Danzig Gauleiter Förster, Adolf Hitler, Berghof
 
Nazi Justice Minister Dr. Gürtner in Rome
 
Ribbentrop, Coun Ciano
The magazines have articles about Japanese diplomats including Hiroshi Oshima, the Japanese Ambassador in Berlin, Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano’s visit to the Berghof, the German city of Danzig, architectural treasures in Germany and Italy, temples in Japan, the Greater German Art Exhibition in the House of German Art in Munich, the Wehrmacht invasion of Poland and Hitler’s visit to the frontlines, Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop’s meeting with Stalin and the signing of the German-Russian Non-Aggression Pact, Jungfaschisten or fascist youth gatherings, the DAF of Dr. Robert Ley, National Socialist housing politics, Dr. Conti’s view on national health, famous German physician Robert Koch in Japan, German victory in Poland, the Japanese military in China, the effects of the English blockade on German foreign trade, Fighting for the Freedom of Europe, the official opening of the new German-Italian Cultural Association headquarters, national festivals in Germany, Italy and Japan, etc., etc., etc.
 
Ribbenrop, Hitler, Goering, Gauleiter Förster
 
Each magazine has a section called Deutscher Bildbericht, Italienischer Bildbericht and Japanischer Bildbericht with photos of diplomatic visits in Germany, Italy and Japan featuring high-ranking diplomats and their wives, royal visitors, promotion ceremonies, the war and other military events (example shown above).
 
Hitler, Polenfeldzug
The heavy covers of each issue featured the title superimposed over a gold eagle and swastika, a coat of arms of the country of Italy and a Japanese flag on a grey-blue background. Most of the articles are written in both German and Italian and some captions are occasionally done in Japanese.
Nazi era Telefunken advertising
Nazi victory in Poland 1939
Japanese military vehicles
Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop’s meeting with Stalin and the signing of the German-Russian Non-Aggression Pact
 
NSDAP Gau Danzig
 
There are photos in theses BERLIN • ROM • TOKIO magazines not found in other Third Reich publications such as Hitler wearing an unusual white uniform and cap at his alpine home the Berghof, Hitler at the theater in Vienna, Japanese athletes during a trip through Germany, Hitler and his generals during the Polenfeldzug, Hitler visiting wounded soldiers and ethnic Germans in Poland, the Japanese Army attacking China on land and from the air, Hitler awarding the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross to members of the Wehrmacht after victory in Poland, Reichsminister Walter Funk, Hermann Goering addressing German factory workers, Japanese military equipment, Nazi Transport Minister Dr. Julius Dorpmüller during a bridge inspection, Dr. Joseph Goebbels meeting Hitler Youth leaders, Italo Balbo in Libya, Reichsminister Rust, Reichsminister Dr. Lammers, Hitler meeting old 1923 Putsch comrades in Munich, Reichsminister Hans Frank in Krakau, Dr.-Ing. Fritz Todt handing out Westwall medals, 11,000 new Italian settlers arriving in Libya, the new Italian Panzerschiff Impero, Russian and Estonian officers meeting at their country’s border, etc., etc., etc.
Erzgebirge Kunst
Greater German Art Exhibition in the House of German Art in Munich
Japanese monks and soldiers
Japanese attack on China
David Michelangelo
Hitler Berghof
Italian Army maneuvers
Stalin, Non Aggression Pact 23-24 August 1939
 
Jungfaschisten, fascist youth rally, Baldur von Schirach
 
Dr. Robert Ley, DAF
heroic Nazi nudes
Ahasvers anti-Jewish Nazi cartoon
Each of the magazines contains three nicely printed color examples of famous pieces of art tipped-into the text on special heavy-weight pages (the December 1939 issue has a fine color portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach and Dante Alighieri, for example). They also contain advertising by companies such as Opel, Agfa, Leica, Hensoldt, Telefunken, Meissen, Dresdner Bank, Rosenthal, Steinway & Sons, and others.

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This lot of six 1939 BERLIN • ROM • TOKIO magazines is ** SOLD **
 
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BERLIN ROME TOKYO - RARE NAZI DIPLOMATIC NEWS MAGAZINES

A LOT OF SIX HISTORIC, HEAVILY ILLUSTRATED NAZI BERLIN • ROM • TOKIO MAGAZINES ~ JULY - DECEMBER 1939

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