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Publication of Böhmen und Mähren began in April 1940 under the direction of the Reichsprotektor and German career diplomat, Baron Konstantin von Neurath with Nazi Staatssekretär SS-Gruppenführer Karl Hermann Frank as publisher. It was continued by SS-General Reinhard Heydrich when he took over from Freiherr von Neurath in Prag (Prague, Praha), Czechoslovakia as Deputy Reichsprotector in the fall of 1941, and then under Dr. Wilhelm Frick after Heydrich's assassination. The magazine was printed by major Nazi Party publisher Volk und Reich Verlag in Prague.

The historic issues of Böhmen und Mähren offered here are ALL the issues published for 1940 (the first year of publication, first issue April 1940) bound in Third Reich Germany in hard covers as a book. The size of the book is 1 x 10-½ x 14 inches and its contains 370 very heavily illustrated pages.

All issues of Böhmen und Mähren must be considered rare, and they generally contained the latest news of the SS and Waffen-SS, its code of conduct, its family orientation, its history, its leadership, its deployment and its combat record, as well as historical and cultural information about issued related to Nazi Germany and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (the western part of Czechoslovakia).

These NINE Böhmen und Mähren magazines bound in hard covers contain black & white and color illustrated articles on the NSDAP in Bohemia and Moravia, the Decision of 15/16 March 1939 (the end of the existence of the country of Czechoslovakia), Reichsprotektor Konstantin Freiherr von Neurath introducing the new magazine Böhmen und Mähren (April 1940 is the first issue), German Lebensraum in Bohemia and Moravia, introducing German law in Bohemia and Moravia, Prague by Night, Karl Frank meeting the German and Foreign Press at the Kaiserhof Hotel in Berlin, the Prague Economy, German Victory in France and the Armistice at Compiègne, German Music in Prague, Folklore Dresses from Moravia, Experiences by Czech artists and journalists after a trip through Germany and Holland, the Italian Army, Navy and Air Force in Battle, World Order without England, SS-Totenkopf Infantry Battalion taking the SS Oath in Prague, Dr. Joseph Goebbels visiting Prague, the Elbe River (the River Through Germany's Center), SS-Gruppenführer Karl Frank opening the Prague Book Fair, Masonic Stories from Bohemia, German Christmas, Bohemian Christmas Traditions and Recipes, a New Hitler Youth Home in Prague, and a recap of the year in photos.

These nine 1940 issues of Böhmen und Mähren contain superb and in many cases, unique photo content: SS-Gruppenführer Karl Hermann Frank at many different events and venues, Adolf Hitler in Prague, a Wehrmacht parade in Prague, Dr. Kurt von Burgsdorff, the Wehrmacht invasion in Norway and France, Bohemian farms and castles, Gauleiter Konrad Henlein, Baron Konstantin von Neurath, battle damage at Le Havre, high-ranking Nazis at the Armistice at Compiègne, German soldier graves in Poland, the Napoleonic battlefield at Austerlitz, Wehrmacht troops on horseback entering Bohemia and Moravia on 15 March 1939, Reichsprotektor von Neurath visiting the Skoda factory in Pilsen and at the opera in Prague, Nazi swastika flags in Prague, new Nazi building projects (Zeppelinwiese at the Nazi Party Day Grounds in Nuremberg, the Honor Temples in Munich, the New Reichschancellery in Berlin), German Red Cross (DRK) nurses treating wounded soldier from the west front in Prague, Adolf Hitler Square in Pilsen, the main square in the town of Budweiser, the Reichsautobahn - the Highways of the Führer, the Prague astronomical clock from 1490, Dr. Joseph Goebbels, Hitler, Count Ciano and the Japanese delegation at the signing of the Axis Treaty in Berlin on 27 September 1940, consecration of HJ flags in Prague, a Nazi submarine guarding the Elbe river, Hitler's October 1940 meeting with General Franco and Marshal Petain in France, Hitler and Benito Mussolini in Rome, ethnic Germans returning from Russia, Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering and BdM girls handing out Christmas presents, Hitler visiting Wehrmacht troops around Christmas, Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop and Soviet Foreign Minister Molotow in Berlin, Rumanian General Antonescu with Hitler at the Reichschancellery, and many more photos not found in other Third Reich magazines.

This book of very rare and historic 11 x 14 inch Third Reich photo magazines also contain many maps (several in color) and some pages of interesting illustrated advertising.  It is fully indexed.

The covers of all the 1940 issues of Böhmen und Mähren were removed prior to binding, as was always the case in German binderies. All nine issues appear to be complete. We found no pieces cut out and did not detect any missing pages when we photographed these 78 year old magazines. Good used condition, and very rare!

It would be difficult, if not impossible, to overstate the historical value of this complete year of Böhmen und Mähren magazines to any library of printed material related to Reinhard Heydrich, National Socialism, or mid-20th century European history. The original Third Reich magazines offered here were printed in German by the SS in Prague in very limited quantities specifically for circulation within the Protekrorat Böhmen und Mähren and to a select list of high-ranking Nazi Party official outside Bohemia and Moravia. Few examples of the magazine survived the post-war Allied destruction of Nazi literature or the desperate years following World War II when anything combustible was used as fuel for heat and cooking. Fewer yet survived as complete examples assembled by the year of publication. Most people today are unaware that the magazine ever existed in print.

The magazine sets by year offered here on USMBOOKS.com are the only complete sets we have ever owned or offered for sale, and very likely the only sets that we will ever offer for sale. This is a rare opportunity to purchase this 75+ year old material on the open market and that opportunity will not last long.

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