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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 six double issues published for 1943 bound in Third Reich Germany in hard covers as a book.

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 SIX Böhmen und Mähren magazines bound in 5/8 x 10-½ x 14 inch hard covers contain black & white and color illustrated articles on the NSDAP in Bohemia and Moravia, the battle on the east front and Stalingrad, Prague University, SS-Gruppenführer Karl Hermann Frank addressing President Hacha and the Czech People, the Homeland of Adolf Hitler, the life and work of Reinhard Heydrich, Heydrich's death and funeral in Berlin, the Massacre at Katyn, the German Youth, KLV organization and outings, BdM girls working in the German war industry, the Jewish Question in Bohemia and Moravia, Reichsminister Dr. Wilhelm Frick officially becomes the Reichsprotektor on 14 October 1943, Czech Emigration and World Jewry, the re-election of Czech President Emil Hacha and his swearing in my Karl Frank, and a recap of the year in photos.

These six 1943 issues of Böhmen und Mähren contain superb and in many cases, unique photo content: dozens of photos of Acting Reichsprotector and SS General Reinhard Heydrich (with his family, with Reichsführer-SS Himmler and SS Generals K.H. Frank and Kurt Daluege, as a Luftwaffe pilot, in his SS fencing outfit, his funeral procession in Prague and funeral services in the Mosaic Hall of the Reichscancellery in Berlin, his death mask), SS-Gruppenführer Karl Hermann Frank, battle scenes from the Soviet Union, Arno Breker sculptures, the German war industry, students fighting for the Fatherland, Prague University, Hitler with Mussolini, Marschall Antonescu and Admiral Horthy, Dr. Joseph Goebbels, Hitler, Himmler, Göring, Doenitz and Keitel at the Heldengedenktag parade in Berlin, SS-Obergruppenführer Kurt Daluege, the German State Eagle, Hitler Youth boys in training, HJ in Bohemia and Moravia, SS Recruits taking the SS Oath in Prague, ceremonies surrounding the appointment of Dr. Wilhelm Frick as Reichsprotector of Bohemia and Moravia, Gauleiter Konrad Henlein, Nazi frontline soldiers, and many more photos not found in other Third Reich magazines.

This 192-page book of very rare and historic 11 x 14 inch magazines also contains many maps, two double-page spreads of watercolors of historic buildings in Prague and book reviews.

The covers of all these 1943 issues of Böhmen und Mähren were removed prior to binding, as was always the case in German binderies.

These six double issues appear of Böhmen und Mähren to be complete. We found no pieces cut out, no writing and did not detect any missing pages when we photographed these 75 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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