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This is a fine, heavily illustrated First Edition hardcover book published by Gauleiter Fritz Wächtler called Reichsaufbau im Osten, meaning the enlargement of the Hitler's Germany in the East in 1938 and 1939. Fritz Wächtler was the Nazi Gauleiter of Gau Bayerische Ostmark (Bayreuth) as well as being in charge of the National Socialist Teachers Association.

In his foreword dating to the Kriegsjahr 1941 (War Year 1941), Gauleiter Wächtler mentions the historic return of Austria and the Sudetenland to the Reich, as well as Bohemia, Moravia, parts of Poland, East Prussia and the Ukraine being under German leadership again.

Wächtler emphasizes the important task of German educators in the East to show the young generation in these lands the importance of the German way of life, German settlement, culture, history and to teach the German language to people who have been without German influence and leadership for two decades since the Treaty of Versailles. He says this invaluable work in the 'outpost in the east', is helping the Führer and is an important foundation for the rebuilding of the east.

The glossy photo pages in Reichsaufbau im Osten have photographs of historic cities in the east, as well as Hitler, Himmler and other high-ranking Nazis in Austria, the Sudetenland, Poland, East Prussia, Baltic provinces and the Ukraine. There are photos of funerals for murdered victims of anti-German brutality, ethnic Germans receiving shooting training, mobile schools for ethnic German children, Polish Jews and Polish POWs, heavy industry in Upper Silesia and Litzmannstadt, German farms in the Warthegau, historic buildings and the harbor in Danzig, Memelland, Krakau, etc.

There is also a photo chapter called die Volksdeutsche Wanderung, about ethnic Germans returning to the German Homeland from the East. These photos include Volksdeutsche heading west on foot, with horses and wagons and by ship, being issued new IDs (see photo left), and Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler personally greeting Heimkehrer (shown above).

This book was already in production when "the German Nation started the Battle for Destiny against the Bolshevist Threat" according to the last paragraph of introductory text in Reichsaufbau im Osten. Wächtler called Operation Barbarossa necessary to prevent Europe from "becoming an Asian peninsula".

Reichsaufbau im Osten was published by Deutscher Volksverlag in Munich in 1941. This hardcover First Edition has 208 glossy pages and measures 8-1/2 x 9-7/8 inches. All the photos are indexed in the back and the 80+ year old hardcover book is complete and in very nice used condition. No odor.