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NAZI HOFFMANN PHOTO BOOK HITLER LIBERATES SUDETENLAND
TWO EDITIONS OF THE RARE
1938 HOFFMANN PHOTO BOOK
HITLER BEFREIT SUDETENLAND
1938 HOFFMANN PHOTO BOOK
HITLER BEFREIT SUDETENLAND
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Hitler Befreit Sudetenland (Hitler Liberates Sudetenland) is one of the rarer black & white Nazi photo books published by Professor Heinrich Hoffmann and the Zeitgeschichte Verlag in Berlin. This 7-3/4 x 10-1/2 inch, 64 page softcover book with an introduction by Konrad Henlein was released in 1938.
This historical book is filled with over 100 full- and half-page photos of Adolf Hitler, other high ranking Nazis (Göring, Ribbentrop, Henlein, Keitel) and foreign dignitaries deciding the fate of Sudetenland, a part of Czechoslovakia in the fall of 1938.
There are pictures of Hitler with with British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, French Premier Edouard Daladier and Il Duce, Benito Mussolini at the Berghof near Berchtesgaden, at Bad Godesberg and during the 29-30 September 1938 meeting at the Führerbau in München (Munich). The "Munich Pact" was signed on 30 September 1938, an agreement that enabled Nazi Germany to take possession of the Sudetenland without fear of opposition from either Britain, France or Italy.
This example of Hitler Befreit Sudetenland was a Christmas gift for employees of the Deutscher Fichte-Bund headquartered Hamburg. During the Third Reich, the Deutscher Fichte-Bund was a part of the Propaganda Ministry of Dr. Goebbels and was responsible for spreading positive information about the new Germany abroad.
This section is followed by photos of German troops entering the Sudetenland, fleeing citizens, Hitler visiting the troops in one of his gigantic open Mercedes-Benz cars, Hitler inspecting Czech defenses, having lunch in the field, shaking hands with wounded soldiers, posing with smiling children, women offering Hitler mineral water with Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler in the background, etc.
A special letter with a fascimile signature of Th. Kessermeier (Organisationsdirektor or leader of the DFR) was added before the title page of this book. The letter contains Christmas wishes and commemorates the fact that in 1938, "10 million people [in the Sudetenland] were liberated from 20 years of “slavery” after the Treaty of Versailles".
This book is in good used condition. The dust jacket is original and has advertising for other Hoffmann photo books (Bildbände) on the back flap: Hitler erobert das deutsche Herz, Hitler abseits vom Alltag, Hitler in seinem Bergen, Hitler in seiner Heimat, Hitler wie ihn keiner kennt, etc.
Also for sale on usmbooks.com, a rare original Heinrich Hoffmann catalog
and the photo book Das Antlitz des Führers (The Faces of the Führer).
and the photo book Das Antlitz des Führers (The Faces of the Führer).