Kampf Um's Dritte Reich: Eine Historische Bilderfolge. by Schenkendorf, Leopold von & Heinrich Hoffmann - 1933

Altona-Bahrenfeld: Cigaretten-Bilderdienst, 1933. First edition. Softcover. 4to. 92pp. Original gold-stamped color illustrated wraps. Paste-down on front cover shows image of the Brandenburg Gate quadriga with the Swastika. Gold lettering below paste-down. Early National Socialist propaganda cigarette-card album documenting Hitler rise to power. Chapters look at Hitler during World War I, the 1923 Hitler-Putsch, various NS organizations, the Führer traveling throughout Germany, Hitler in private, NS meetings and parades, their victory on Jan. 30th, 1933, etc. Other sections praise Hermann Göring, Joseph Goebbels, and Ernst Röhm. Approximately a year after this publication Hitler had Röhm and many SA leaders and members murdered in the infamous "Night of the long knives." Hitler forbade for Röhm to be mentioned or pictured in any National Socialist literature. For this reason, NS propaganda works with the SA Führer in them are relatively scarce. Includes full-page b/w reproductions of… Read More