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This is very nice and rare Third Reich tourist information for visitors to the picturesque town of St. Wolfgang in the Salzkammergut (district of salt mines). Between 1938 and 1945 it was part of Nazi Germany, today it is part of Austria again but note that on this 1940 tourist brochure it says Deutschland.

The heavily illustrated, 802 year old 3-7/8 x 8-3/8 inch brochure has picturesque images of St. Wolfgang on one side, including the famous Wallfahrtskirche (Pilgrimage Church), lake views, swimmers, sunbathers and people on sailboats.

The other side has a color map of the Salzkammergut, the remarkably beautiful alpine lake area east of the city of Salzburg, south of the Reichsautobahn connecting Munich and Vienna, recognizable by many Americans as “Sound of Music Country”.

It includes tourist destinations such as Fuschl (where Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop had his summer residence), Bad Ischl, St. Wolfgang, Traunkirchen and Bad Aussee, the village where where many European art treasures were discovered in a salt mine after the war. The lakes in the area are still rumored to contain a fortune in hidden Nazi gold but all that anyone is willing to admit being found is counterfeit English currency (this buried treasure story inspired the 1968 novel and 1972 American movie “The Salzburg Connection”).

The top two corners of the 16-½ x 23-½ inch map side have alpine flowers such as the Edelweiss and Enzian, and the arrows on the edges of this map show roads to Braunau, Berchtesgaden, Linz, Lambach and Munich, for example.

This Nazi tourist brochure was published by NS-Gauverlag Salzburg in 1940 and is in very nice condition. No writing, no tears, no tape, no odor. The Third Reich version of this map and brochure is very difficult to find!