This unusual 1936 Nazi size and design book is **SOLD**. We will be happy to ship abroad at additional cost. Please inquire. USM book # 319

"Normal" is something that Americans have been taught to believe can not be defined without hurting other people's feelings. That was never the case in Germany and this book is a grand example of how far the concept has been carried for a very long time. Germany invented the DIN system. DIN is the abbreviation for Deutsche Industrienorm, or German Industrial Standard, and the concept of standardizing things was carried not just to bolts and nuts, but to things like paper sizes, speedometers for cars, etc. Part of the basis of the idea during Third Reich times was that most cars could use the same speedometer and there would be great economies realized because the great mass of cars would use that same one.

Bauentwurfslehre (Building Design Specification Studies) by Ernst Neufert was a book designed for building professionals, teachers and students learning about construction, layout and design, form, structure, interior design and the practical use of space.

This very heavily illustrated 300 page hard cover book measures 8-1/2 x 11 inches, was published by Bauwelt-Verlag of Berlin in 1936 and has a foreword by the Board of German Standards.

There are over 3600 illustrations and more than 260 tables in this book, and almost as important as finding out what that standard size of a toilet stool was, is finding the proper name for it. If one was aware that the standard size for German coins was 18, 20, 21, 23, 26 and 29 mm in diameter, it made measuring a lot of things a very simple process.

Among the items illustrated, measured, standardized and explained in this book are the interior spaces of railway and subway trains, busses, cablecars, automobiles, zeppelins, offices, household rooms, windows, stairways and escalators, highways and streets, paving bricks, garden tools and furniture, parking lots and garages, laundry and household equipment, food packaging and pantries, tableware, bathing facilities, tile, pet and small animal cages, renatl houses, schools, youth hostels, art schools, theaters, built-in, freestanding and walk-in safes, factories (inlcuding factory wash and toilet facilities which were very much like those used in concentration camps), farm equipment, railways, gas stations, airports, hotels and restaurants, stadiums, playgrounds, bowling alleys, swimming pools, airraid protection shelters, golf courses, churches, cemeteries, etc.

The front flyleaf (which probably had the imprint of a well-known architectural firm) has been torn out but the book itself is in very good condition.

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