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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 10-½ x 14 inch issues of Böhmen und Mähren offered here are ALL twelve issues published for 1941, with over 550 very heavily illustrated pages, with complete index.

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 twelve Böhmen und Mähren magazines contain black & white and color illustrated articles on the NSDAP in Bohemia and Moravia, Luftwaffe reprisals against England, the repatriation of ethnic Germans from Bessarabia, economic news from Prague, German theater in Bohemia and Moravia, 'What does Roosevelt want?', SS-Gruppenführer Karl Frank visiting homes in the Protectorate housing KLV children, the second anniversary of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, Heroes Remembrance Day 1941, Flak and Air Defense, Industry in the Protectorate, the Kriegsmarine in action in the Atlantic, Albert Speer and new German Architecture, the city of Pilsen (history, industry, architecture), Japan's Military, the Schutzstaffel (SS), SS recruits taking the oath on Hitler's birthday, A Day with the Waffen-SS, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop updating the Foreign Press about Greece and Yugoslavia, Mussolini and Fascist Italy, the Italian military, Italian-style architecture in Bohemia and Moravia, the Italian Consulate in Prague, After Victory on Crete, Europe's Freedom and Unity, Nazi victory against Bolshevism, the Political use of the Nazi freeway network, the war in the east, the City of Pressburg in Slovakia (its population, history, industries), SS-General Reinhard Heydrich takes over as Reichsprotector of Bohemia and Moravia, Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler visiting Prague, Acting Reichsprotector Heydrich meeting with the diplomatic corps in Prague, the hops industry in Bohemia and Moravia, Hedrich's meeting with Czech President Dr. Emil Hacha, the signing of the Anti-Comintern Pact at the Reichschancellery in Berlin, and much more.

These twelve 1941 issues of Böhmen und Mähren contain superb and in many cases, unique photo content including new Acting Reichsprotector and SS General Reinhard Heydrich, SS-Gruppenführer Karl Frank, Hitler addressing Nazi armament factory workers, Reichsführer-SS Himmler and SS-Gruppenführer Heydrich in Prague, Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano in Berlin, Luftwaffe bombing damage in London, Volksdeutschen or ethnic germans returning to Nazi Germany, excited Czech women welcoming Wehrmacht soldiers in 1939, the Emperor's crown, Wehrmacht FLAK guns, SA Stabchef Viktor Lutze and Gauleiter Konrad Henlein in Prague, Nazi architectural models, Albert Speer and Adolf Hitler, the Skoda Works in Pilsen, Wehrmacht parade in Pilsen, Hitler's birthday celebrations, the Wehrmacht in Bulgaria, the Waffen-SS on the Charles Bridge in Prague, LSSAH, Aryan Germans in the East, Himmler's Chief of Staff SS-Gruppenführer Karl Wolff, SS recruits taking the oath in Prague, Waffen-SS men in their barracks, training, eating, etc., motorized Wehrmacht troops near Athens, Wehrmacht mountain troops and paratroopers on the island of Crete, Wehrmacht troops advancing and battle damage in the Soviet Union, Ukrainians massacred by Soviet troops, Hitler and Göring at the Berghof meeting with the Croatian head of state Dr. Ante Pavelic, new Hitler Youth Homes in Nazi Germany, Dr. Joseph Goebbels at the Salzburg Music Festival, art on display at the 1941 Greater German Art Exhibition in Munich, Hitler Youth troops marching through Prague, and many more photos not found in other Third Reich magazines.

These very rare and historic 10-1/2 x 14 inch Böhmen und Mähren magazines also contains many maps, book reviews, as well as advertising by companies located in Bohemia and Moravia (from heavy industry to banks, ceramic producers, mining companies, UfA and Tobis, to Budweiser and other Czech beer breweries).

Ten of the twelve issues are complete but we noticed when we photographed these Third Reich magazines that a previous owner had removed a total of eight pages containing information about the composer Mozart (pages 399 - 406) from the November 1941 issue. From the December issue, the previous owner removed a four-page article about the crown (pages 427 - 430) and a four-page portion of a novel (Ein Burger in Prag, pages 441 - 444) from the December issue. NEITHER ARTICLE WAS CONNECTED TO THE THIRD REICH PERIOD AND NONE OF THE HEYDRICH OR OTHER NATIONAL SOCIALIST MATERIAL IS MISSING.

The spines of the May, July and September issues of these 77 year old Third Reich Böhmen und Mähren are scotch taped.   Nice used condition overall, and very rare! No odor.

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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