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"What the World Rejected" by Dr. Friedrich Stieve, is subtitled "Hitler's Peace Offers 1933-1940" and was published by the Washington Journal for the German Library of Information in New York. It is a translation of the essay Was die Welt nicht wollte: Hitlers Friedensangebote 1933-1939 which had been published in Berlin in 1940.

Dr. Friedrich Stieve was a German historian and diplomat who had worked at German embassies in Stockholm and Latvia. From 1932 - 1939 he was head of the Cultural- Political Affairs Department of the Auswärtiges Amt or Foreign Office in Berlin.

The first paragraph in the book is, "Germany's enemies maintain today that Adolf Hitler is the greatest disturber of peace known to history, that he threatens every nation with sudden attack and oppression, that he has created a terrible war machine in order to bring misery and devastation everywhere. At the same time they intentionally conceal an all-important fact: they themselves drove the leader of the German people finally to draw the sword. They themselves compelled him to seek to obtain at last by the use of force that which he had been striving to gain by persuasion from the beginning: the security of his country. They did this not only by declaring war on him on September 3, 1939, but also by blocking step by step for seven years the path to any peaceful discussion."

It goes on highlighting Adolf Hitler's many efforts for peace in Europe, including serious proposals for armaments reductions and limits on weapons deployment, which were rejected by the leaders of Great Britain, France and the leaders of other countries.

This is a rare original 5-3/4 x 8-3/8 inch, 16-page example of "What the World Rejected" by Dr. Friedrich Stieve, in excellent condition. We acquired it from the estate of the original owner in Saginaw, Michigan, who carefully saved it after receiving it from the German Library of Information in New York. NOT a copy, but an 80 year old original!