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This 1st Edition Nazi photo book on Nordic Beauty is **SOLD**.
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Nordische Schönheit, Ihr Wunschbild im Leben und in der Kunst roughly translates as Nordic Beauty, Its Ideal in Life and Art. This 6-1/4 x 9 inch, 208 page blue linen hardcover FIRST EDITION 164 photo book by Paul Schultze-Naumburg was published by J.F. Lehmanns Verlag in Munich in 1937, is full of examples of "Nordic Beauty". According to information on the dust jacket, the purpose of this book is "explaining the meaning of Nordic Beauty in photos and art."
The book starts with an Adolf Hitler quotation from his book
Mein Kampf, about the importance of Nordic Beauty to the German Nation, and that it will help to improve the strength of the country.
There are chapters called "The Meaning of Beauty", "The Nordic Face", "The Nordic Body", "Studying [the Nordic Ideal] in the Past and Present", etc., all accompanied by clear, sharp photographs on the subject. The Nordic ideal in paintings and sculptures, photo examples of different Nordic features, the right dimensions, and several examples of degenerate art compared with Germanic art.
All of it is assembled in Nordische Schönheit, Ihr Wunschbild im Leben und in der Kunst to help the German people understand the importance of preserving the Nordic Ideal!
The back of the book contains a few pages of advertising for other racial books by Paul Schultze-Naumburg and other authors published by Lehmanns Verlag.
This rare First Edition photo book is in very good condition and comes with its rare original dust jacket which shows minor wear with a few tears and a piece missing on the back.
ORIGINAL NORDIC BEAUTY NAZI PHOTO BOOK
1937 NAZI PHOTO BOOK
NORDISCHE SCHÖNHEIT -
NORDIC BEAUTY
WITH ORIGINAL
DUST JACKET
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