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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) as Deputy Reichsprotector in the fall of 1941, and then under Dr. Wilhelm Frick after Heydrich's assassination in May of 1942. The magazine was printed by major Nazi Party publisher Volk und Reich Verlag of Berlin and Prague.

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). The historic 10-½ x 14 inch issues of Böhmen und Mähren offered here are ALL nine issues (July through December are three double-issues) of Böhmen und Mähren published for 1942 containing over 400 very heavily illustrated completely indexed pages.

THESE RARE 1942 ISSUES INCLUDE PHOTOS AND TEXT ABOUT THE LIFE, WORK, DEATH AND STATE FUNERAL OF ACTING REICHSPROTECTOR OF BOHEMIA AND MORAVIA SS GENERAL REINHARD HEYDRICH AS WELL AS THE DEATH AND STATE FUNERAL OF NAZI ARMAMENTS MINISTER DR. FRITZ TODT.

Above, the official photo portrait of Reinhard Heydrich released for his 38th birthday (7 March), and right the June 1942 issue of Böhmen und Mähren which contained full coverage of his funeral ceremonies in Prague and Berlin.

These nine Böhmen und Mähren magazines contain black & white and color illustrated articles on the NSDAP in Bohemia and Moravia, the Economy of the Protectorate Serving the Reich (by Heydrich), the Economic Value of the Danube river, Celebrating Mozart, Roosevelt and World Politics, the RAD (its purpose, Arbeitsmaiden in the the Protectorate, the East Front in Winter, the Historically Important Change of Direction (by Heydrich), the Death of Reichsminister Dr. Fritz Todt, the Work of Organisation Todt, the Funeral for Fritz Todt at the Reichschancellery, Combat Photographers, History of the Press in Bohemia, the Fall of Singapore, the Exhibition "Soviet Paradise" in Prague, Hitler's Homeland, the Winter War in the East, Forests in Bohemia, the Assassination of Deputy Reichsprotector SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich and his Elaborate Funeral in Prague and Berlin, Horse Breeding in Bohemia and Moravia, Scientist and Geneticist Gregor Mendel, Incomprehensible Anglo-American Warfare, the History of Prague Castle, the War Year 1942, and much more.

These 1942 issues of Böhmen und Mähren contain superb and in many cases, unique photo content including photos of the new Acting Reichsprotector and SS General Reinhard Heydrich, SS-Gruppenführer Karl Frank, RAD men doing civilian and military work, RAD barracks, RAD women and Arbeitsmaiden, Reichsführer-SS Himmler and Generalfeldmarschall von Reichenau, the 38 birthday portrait of SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, PK men (combat photographers) and correspondents in action, Hitler with Admiral Raeder, Field Marshal Keitel and Milch at the Heldengedenktag ceremonies in Berlin, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Dr. Joseph Goebbels, Dr. Frick, Reichskommissar Seyss-Inquart and Albert Speer listening to Hitler speak at the Reichstag, the state funeral of Reinhard Heydrich in Prague and Berlin attended by all high-ranking Nazi dignitaries, Police General Daluege with Czech President Hacha and Karl Frank, Reinhard and Lina Heyrich attending a concert at Waldsteinpalais in Prague on Reinhard and Lina Heydrich on 26 May 1942 (the night before his assassination - shown left), East Front and West Front battle photos including Stalingrad, Prague Castle, Waffen-SS recruits taking the oath in Prague, Hitler at the Löwenbrau beer hall in Munich, Heydrich's widow Lina, and many more photos not found in other Third Reich magazines.

These very rare and historic 10-1/2 x 14 inch magazines also contains many maps (including several large size fold-outs), book reviews, as well as advertising by companies located in Bohemia and Moravia (from heavy industry to banks, ceramic producers, mining companies), Mercedes-Benz, WHW charity collections, Cinzano, Bayer, Bata, Julius Meinl, to Budweiser and other Czech beer breweries.

These 76 year old Nazi magazines are complete. We could not find any missing pages, and nothing was cut out of defaced. The spine of the February issue is scotch taped. Very 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 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.

No shipments to EU addresses. If you are a buyer in the European Union you need to have an American address to which we can ship these SS magazines.