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Early issues of Nazi Party publications are among the most sought after NSDAP material in the 21st century, as researchers and scholars seek to uncover the mysteries of the power behind the little rag-tag Nazi Party and emphasis has been placed squarely on material that was overlooked and discarded in the de-Nazification process in the wake of German surrender at the end of World War II. THE 52 ISSUES OF ILLUSTRIERTER BEOBACHTER offered here are the complete run for 1930 - VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND 80+ YEARS LATER.

The JB or Illustrierter Beobachter was the Nazi Party weekly photo newspaper published in München (Munich) by Verlag Franz Eher Nachfolger, but read by just about everybody, all over Germany. Each 10 x 14 inch issue contained about 10-14 pages of the very latest news, photographs and information gathered from around the world including plenty from the United States and England. The paper was published every Saturday and sold for only 20 Reichspfennigs, the equivalent of 12 US cents.

These 1930 issues are an irreplacable, heavily photographic history of the process that lifted the tiny Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei our of obscurity and on to the front pages of newspapers and magazines worldwide. The weekly was owned by by Verlag Franz Eher Nachfolger, the Central Publishing House of the NSDAP, and Adolf Hitler was the publisher. He also wrote a column every week to clarify matters that he felt were either misunderstood or under-publicized. In one of these issues he wrote about Horst Wessel.

But mainly, the magazine was for the Nazi Party (in their own words) "a counter-weight to the Jewish Press" that dominated newspaper publishing in Germany at the time.

Thus, many of the covers and many of the articles or features in JB in 1930 were of the strongest possible anti-Jewish nature. One full-page feature shown above and illustrated by Fips is called "The Jew and the German Woman" and depicts German females as victims of Jewish doctors and Jewish businessmen. Illustrations like these are among the earliest Fips drawings published.

Other articles deal with curiosities like six German brothers who all belonged to the SA in Erlangen near Nürnberg as well as a new high-speed train from Zeppelin; Adolf Hitler speaking before huge crowds in Berlin and elsewhere; Organization and Race; the Battle Leaders of the SA; the Funeral of Horst Wessel; the Swastika Flies in the USA as well at Deutscher Tag in Chicago; the Founder of the Rocket Industry (Max Valier); the Party Home of the NSDAP; Julius Streicher; Horst Wessel - a Fighter for Germany; German SA Ski Championships in Kitzbühl; Hitler Day in Plauen; a Storm over Sudeten Germany; the Hitler Youth in Weimar; the Impact of Forbidden Brown Shirt Uniforms; the Schutzstaffel (SS) of the Ortsgruppe München, etc.

Every now and then there was an article under the title "Things that Jews Don't Do" (Dinge, die der Jude nicht macht) showing ordinary Germans doing hard labor (on streets and highways, for example) or as engineers and crew members on trains. There is also spectacular advertising for all sorts of Nazi products and services from finger rings and other jewelry to cameras, safes, Nazi books, typewriters, silverware (Wellner was a regular advertiser), sewing machines, clothing (including Lederhosen), canoes, bee honey, etc. Most issues also contain a feature called Der Funk Beobachter or The Radio Observer which gave information about radios and details of Nazi and enemy broadcasts as well as jokes, cartoons and puzzles including unique Nazi crossword puzzles.

Shown left is an announcement to male and female Party members over the name Adolf Hitler. It is a long announcement explaining the importance of two Nazi publications: the Völkischer Beobachter and this very magazine, the Illustrierter Beobachter. It talks at length about the necessity for every Nazi Party member to do their part for the success of these publications as a counter to the Judenpresse. This announcement also contains the news that from that point onward the Völkischer Beobachter would be published in three editions: one in Munich, one in Berlin and one for all Germany.

CONDITION: complete and in very good used condition. The pages are not ripped, defaced and nothing has been torn or cut out. No offensive odor.

This is historical Nazi Party material of the most valuable kind. It is a treasure of images and information about the period that would be very, very difficult to find in the largest research libraries.