Offered for sale on this USMBOOKS web page is the rare 128-page 8-1/4 x 10-1/4 inch very, very heavily illustrated Heinrich Hoffmann photo book BERLIN which was intended to give visitors to the 1936 Summer Olympic Games an overview of the capital of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. The book is in four languages (German, English French and Spanish) and is an in-depth examination in captioned photos of many buildings, sights and scenes that no longer exist - many were destroyed during the war.

the Royal Palace in Berlin, Monbijou Palace, Charlottenburg Palace, the Nazi Diplomatic Corps, the Army Memorial, the German / English Society of Berlin, the Brandenburg Gate, the Reichschancellery, Hitler speaking in the Deutschlandhalle, performances at the Berlin Philharmonic and the German Opera House, German people celebrating Hitler, Museum Island, the German Museum, the Prussian Arms Collection at the Arsenal on Unter den Linden, the Postal Museum, Olympic venues, the biggest airport in the world at Berlin Tempelhof, victories of German technology, the Reichsautobahn, the Berlin International Auto Show, the racetrack at Karlshorst, Sanssouci in Potsdam, Berlin at night, the zoo, variety theaters and even the Life Clock at Doenhoff Platz in Berlin which "sounded its chimes on the exact second in which a new German citizen was born into the world."

The book contains introductions by Joseph Goebbels and Hermann Goering as well as a sport promoting paragraph by Reichssportführer Hans von Tschammer und Osten and photos including Adolf Hitler, Rudolf Hess, Wilhelm Furtwaengler, Joseph Goebbels, and many of citizens of Berlin enjoying outdoor activities, museums, eating and drinking beer.

Some of those include:

A rare original Third Reich soft cover Heinrich Hoffmann Bildband in very nice, little-used condition.

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