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NS Rare Books
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Super-rare Book Das erwachende Berlin, The Awakening of Berlin (Item RAREBOOK 1-1; NSD 13-16) |
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| DESCRIPTION: This is probably the rarest and most important books we have ever offered at Germania. It’s the book by propaganda minister of the Third Reich Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels. It was copyrighted in the second year of Adolf Hitler’s ascension to power in 1934. The book has 14 pages of sharp, black-and-white photographs that are archival treasures. It tells the whole story of the struggle of the NSDAP to crack “red Berlin.” The credit for the final victory goes completely to the little doctor. Regardless of what one thinks of him, he was a brave and resourceful trooper. He opens the book with a dedication to Sturmführer Horst Wessel, the famed SA man struck down in early life by a red gangster who also was a malevolent red murderer. To bring Berlin back to life after what the ravages of the loss of WWI, the deep depression, and the vigorous communist campaigns of terror and the pit of degeneracy certainly was a Herculean task for the petite Rhinelander with the crippled leg. But he was up to the challenge and he was the “political pugilist personified.” The book chronicles all the misery of the populace in the 1920s: the hunger, the horrible inflation, the Spartacus revolt, and other communist attempts to take over, the greedy Weimar politicians, the usurers, the insane agitators such as Karl Liebknecht and the “beautiful” Rosa Luxemburg, and of course the corrupt police administration of Goebbels’ main adversary, police president Isidor Weiss who sided with the reds against the Nazis. The book is artfully done with photos spaced and fitted to form photo montages that lend very interesting imagery to the pages. We believe this is one of the most important archival records of what the beginnings of the Third Reich entailed. It was at times sheer horror in the NS-versus-communist struggle, but it was also high adventure and the final NS victory in 1933 was almost assuredly won because the Berlin streets were won and for this Dr. Goebbels was the man most responsible. The book measure 10 x 13 inches and is in incredibly fine condition. The former owner put a plastic cover on it years ago and this helped to preserve this extremely rare and important volume.
PRICE: $495.00; expensive? No, extra rare. |
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