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BOUND ORIGINALS OF ALL RARE HEAVILY ILLUSTRATED NAZI ILLUSTRIRTE ZEITUNG MAGAZINES PUBLISHED BETWEEN 11 JULY & 17 OCTOBER 1940 |
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The 3 October 1940 Illustrirte Zeitung is all about Organisation Todt, the Reichsarbeitsdienst and Technische Nothilfe. Interspersed in the text are photos of OT, RAD and TeNo men at work on the frontline, Fritz Todt in Belgium and a fine watercolor by Fritz Beyer.
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These days any issues of Illustrirte Zeitung are hard to find. Offered here is a 10-½ x 15 inch, 1 inch thick hardbound book containing all bi-weekly issues published between 11 July 1940 and 17 October 1940, with approximately 300 heavily illustrated pages. These eight issues of Illustrirte Zeitung were bound with their covers, and the nearly 5 pound hardbound book has covers with a faux alligator motif. |
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| The rare oversized heavily illustrated diplomatic activity and news magazine Illustrirte Zeitung (also written Jillustrirte in German) was published bi-weekly by Verlag J. J. Weber in Leipzig while the National Socialists were in power in Germany. “Germany’s oldest illustrated biweekly magazine” prided itself on providing “the best coverage of Germany’s economy and culture” and contained lots of general news pictures and specialized in those featuring diplomatic and foreign policy news. It was the semi-official record of what went on in the Diplomatic Service and at the highest echelon of German government. The excellent editorial content was always supplemented with big, sharp photographs as well as illustrations and art in color and black & white, and all issues were printed on high-quality white paper. |
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| The 9 April to 5 May 1940 Nazi invasion of Norway is covered in detail accompanied by photos, maps and gritty PK battle sketches. Every issue also has a Wehrpolitische Chronik, an illustrated recap of German military advances in France and Norway during the week prior to publication. |
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| The 3 October 1940 Illustrirte Zeitung has interesting chapters about German occupied Holland and the newly installed Reichskommissar there, Arthur Seyss-Inquart (below). He is shown during soldier inspections, with General Friedrich Christiansen (Chief Military Commander of Holland) and General von Falkenhorst and there are even interior photos of his office. |
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19 September 1940 issue of Illustrirte Zeitung that SS-Gruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich (Chief of the German Security Police and Security Service) was unanimously elected as the head of world-wide International Criminal Police Agency. |
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| Italian colonial Africa is also heavily covered with pictures of Benito Mussolini and Italo Balbo on horseback, Italian military motorcycle troops, maps of Libya and Italian Somaliland, etc. There is even photo coverage of an official Axis Meeting in Rome with photos of Benito Mussolini, Count Ciano, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Ritter von Epp, and Field Marshal von Mackensen. |
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| Right, a see-through glassine map overlay showing the Luftwaffe bombing attacks on the British Isles. |
Below, a map showing distances Luftwaffe planes have to fly to rech British targets. |
The content is remarkable! Looking through the book is like having a front row seat during the Westfeldzug. Lots of news and photos of the Wehrmacht invasions of France and Norway, the surrender at Compiègne, Luftwaffe action against England, as well as many informative maps.
These World War II magazines contain heavy coverage of the Luftwaffe attacks on, and reconnaissance flights over England, Kriegsmarine naval actions around the British Isles as well as the economic blockade. They are illustrated by war correspondent sketches, photos and even a fine naval action painting in full color.
These World War II magazines contain heavy coverage of the Luftwaffe attacks on, and reconnaissance flights over England, Kriegsmarine naval actions around the British Isles as well as the economic blockade. They are illustrated by war correspondent sketches, photos and even a fine naval action painting in full color.
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| The magazine also has an illustrated article about the German weapon industry and Japan’s growing military dominance in the Pacific. |
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at the Brenner Pass on 4 October 1940. |
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This 3 October 1940 issue also has heavily illustrated chapters about Dutch and Belgian architecture, Dutch reclaimed land (polders), wooden shoe production and Rembrandt.
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The original advertising was also bound into this book and is by well-known companies such as Leica, Bayer, NSV, Nivea, Dr. Oetker, Reichslotterie, IG Farben, Hohner, Gillette, Indanthren, Allianz, Rosenthal, Junkers, AEG, DRK, Continental typewriters, Hansaplast, Dresdner Bank, and many other companies still in business today.
| Aside from the war news, these 1940 issues of Illustrirte Zeitung also have illustrated articles and news segments about German advances in aviation and agriculture, the death of Italy’s Marshal of the Air Force and Governor-General of Italian Libya Italo Balbo, the manufacture of Nazi parachutes, pre-military Hitler Youth medical training at the HJ-Feldscherschule near Leipzig, Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano’s official visit to Germany, DRK recruitment for nurses, wounded Nazi soldiers at the Bayreuth Music Festival and at the House of German Art in Munich, advances in German industry supporting the war effort, National Socialist science and new educational facilities all over Germany, German chemists and genetics, efforts to keep German laborers healthy (exercise, artificial sun lamp treatments increasing vitamin D levels), visits by German authors to the battlefield in France, diplomatic meetings between Hungary and Rumania with the foreign ministers of Axis countries present, Wilhelm Rode of the Nazi Opera House in Berlin, merchandise displays of foreign (German occupied) countries at the 1940 Kriegsmesse in Leipzig, Der Sieg im Westen military exhibition (below), WHW collections during the “Second War Winter”, Vergeltung or retaliation measures against countries that did not “take Adolf Hitler up on his peace plan” (“England chose war”), ethnic Germans in Hungary and Rumania, the meeting of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini at the Brenner Pass on 4 October 1940, the 1940 Leipzig Art Exhibition, modern German jewelry design, interior design, etc., etc. |
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| There are photos of the German invasion of France, Nazi generals and soldiers in Paris, a swastika flag on the Eiffel Tower, Italo Balbo during his visit to Hermann Göring’s Carinhall in August 1938, Kriegsmarine Kommodore Friedrich Bonte and General Eduard Dietl at Narvik, the promotion of General Keitel to Field Marshal, Wehrmacht Music Corps on horseback, Nazi Minister of Science, Education and National Culture Bernhard Rust and heads of large German universities, the 50th birthday of Reichsminister for the Economy Walther Funk, Generalfeldmarschall von Brauchitsch at damaged bunkers at Eben Emael, Count Ciano and Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, King Michael of Rumania, foreign diplomats at the Reichskanzlei, etc., etc. |
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Above, Head of the Presidential Chancellery of the |
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Left, pictures of the right-hand men of Reichskommissar Seyss-Inquart in German occupied Holland, SS-Brigadeführer Hanns Rauter (Generalkommissar für das Sicherheitswesen ) and Dr. Friedrich Wimmer (Generalkommissar für Verwaltung und Justiz).
Have a look at bound October-December 1939 issues of Illustrirte Zeitung as well as other original Third Reich magazines and newspapers
for sale on USMBOOKS.com. We are happy to combine shipping of multiple purchases!
Zeitung is for sale for $225.00 plus postage (see options below). USM book #1426 |
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While we can not be absolutely certain that every page in every 85+ year old Illustrirte Zeitung magazine is there, we did not notice any missing, any pictures cut out or other damage to the rare nearly 5 pound book while making the photos for this listing. It is in very nice used condition and has no odor.
