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Parole: Das Reich by Wladimir von Hartlieb is subtitled, “a Historic Account of the Political Development in Austria between March 1933 and March 1938”. Austro-Hungarian author Wladimir Freiherr Hartlieb-Wallthor was very much in favor of the Anschluss or unification of Austria with Hitler’s Germany and this is his interpretation of the heroic National Socialist struggle in Austria between March 1933 and March 1938.

What makes this First Edition linen hardcover example of Parole: Das Reich very rare is that it was once a part of the main library of Ordensburg Sonthofen, the well-known Nazi educational institution in Bavaria (see reference photo right). Ordensburg Sonthofen was one of three elite Nazi educational institutions (the others were Ordensburg Vogelsang and Ordensburg Crössinsee) where the very best people in the NSDAP, SS, SA, NSKK and HJ, were educated to become future leaders in Nazi Germany. Hitler promised the future of Germany would be assured through these “successors”.

Fortunately, the fakers are not librarians, and most often they are unfamiliar with German library book marking of the Third Reich period (the same system is no longer used) so the fakes are often obvious in their lack of proper German library stamps, notations and spine markings.

The book we offer here REALLY was part of the Hauptbücherei at Ordensburg Sonthofen during the Third Reich and the various stamps and catalog numbers have been there since 1939, and were NOT added after 1945!

The Nazi Party was illegal in Austria during a large part of that time, and party members were therefor persecuted and many imprisoned. In March 1938 Austria officially became a part of Adolf Hitler’s Großdeutschland. While today the process by which it became part of Germany is often referred to as an “annexation”, the official result of the referendum or vote on union with Germany on 10 April 1938 had a huge voter turnout and 99% voted in favor of union. Chapters in this book carefully cover the details of the political turmoil prior to the Anschluß.

This book was item number 689 added to the Ordensburg Sonthofen collection in 1939. It cost RM7,50 and took its place in the library collection in group 39a item number 234.

It has a rare authentic, oversize Ordensburg Sonthofen oval eagle and swastika stamp in two places - on the back of the title page and on the last (Index) page of the book. The spine has a tan Ordensburg Sonthofen library label near the bottom with the group number 39a above the item number 234 separated by a horizontal line.

This is a First Edition 6-1/8 x 9 inch, 520 page hardcover of Parole: Das Reich published by Adolf Lufer Verlag of Wien / Leipzig. It is in very nice little-used condition, without odor.

We have attended the largest militaria exhibitions in Europe every year for the last 30+ years. While there, we have watched in wonder as unscrupulous dealers successfully sold very ordinary Third Reich books altered to appear to have come from notable Third Reich libraries, by simply rubber stamping them with spurious eagle and swastika stamps with various names similar to the ones in the book we offer here.