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What we also know is that in 1936 Nazi Gauleiter and Frankenführer Julius Streicher purchased an 80 hectare (nearly 200 acres) estate called Pleikershof for 300,000 Reichsmarks (US$120,000). He completely rebuilt it and renamed it Streicherhof. It was located at Cadolzburg, a rural community just 14 miles west of the Nürnberg. The American military government set up housing for Jewish concentration camp survivors at the Streicher estate at the end of the war. By 1948/49 around 150 people lived and worked the land there, having renamed it Kibbutz Nili.
BY ADOLF HITLER 1932 EDITION |
| Even without the penciled annotation on the front flyleaf of this book by the GI that liberated it from the library at the farm home of Frankenführer Julius Streicher at Cadolzburg, it would still be a rare 1932 Franz Eher edition of both volumes of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf (in one book) as printed in Munich by M. Müller & Sohn. We bought the book in part because of the very historic annotation although we don’t know precisely who the GI was. What we do know is that the GI collected a number of books in Germany at the end of the war because we purchased all of them from the man who has owned them for the past year or so. It is clear from those other books that the GI / collector had a good eye for books and was in some way involved in the incarceration of high-ranking Nazi prisoners prior to the War Crimes Trials in the Nürnberg suburb of Fürth. |
We had an experienced book binder re-attached the cover to the text portion of the book properly so that it opens like a normal book and sets on a shelf like a book.
The rare and historical book is complete and is otherwise in good condition and has no odor. In the back there are 8 pages of advertising for other National Socialist books published by the Central Publishing House of the Nazi Party as well as their newspaper, Völkischer Beobachter.
The rare and historical book is complete and is otherwise in good condition and has no odor. In the back there are 8 pages of advertising for other National Socialist books published by the Central Publishing House of the Nazi Party as well as their newspaper, Völkischer Beobachter.
This 5 x 7-½ inch, 782-page edition of Mein Kampf was already damaged when the GI took it from the library of Julius Streicher’s home at Cadolzburg in May of 1945. The damage to the book was as follows:
The cover and the entire text pages of the book were separated and the spine of the book was cut or “hacked” horizontally from left to right about ¾ of an inch below the gold blocking with the name of the author and title.
The cover and the entire text pages of the book were separated and the spine of the book was cut or “hacked” horizontally from left to right about ¾ of an inch below the gold blocking with the name of the author and title.
Also for sale on USMBOOKS.com, a 1942 Munich wedding edition of Mein Kampf as well as a Hermann Göring book taken by the same GI with an Albert Göring signature. We are happy to combine shipping of multiple purchases!
is ** SOLD ** USM book #244b |
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AN EARLY COPY OF HITLER’S MEIN KAMPF TAKEN FROM THE LIBRARY
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