GENUINE DELUXE EDITION OF THE HOFFMANN PHOTO BOOK ‘HITLER LIBERATES SUDETENLAND’

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Hitler befreit Sudetenland (Hitler Liberates Sudetenland) is a historic black & white Nazi photo book published by Professor Heinrich Hoffmann and the Zeitgeschichte Verlag in Berlin. This is a 7-1/2 x 10-3/8 inch, 64 page deluxe hardcover edition (151 - 160,000 printing) with an introduction by Konrad Henlein was released in 1938.

This historical book is filled with over 100 full- and half-page photos of Adolf Hitler, other high ranking Nazis (Göring, Ribbentrop, Henlein, Keitel) and foreign dignitaries deciding the fate of Sudetenland, a part of Czechoslovakia in the fall of 1938.

There are pictures of Hitler with with British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, French Premier Edouard Daladier and Il Duce, Benito Mussolini at the Berghof near Berchtesgaden, at Bad Godesberg and during the 29-30 September 1938 meeting at the Führerbau in München (Munich). The "Munich Pact" was signed on 30 September 1938, an agreement that enabled Nazi Germany to take possession of the Sudetenland without fear of opposition from either Britain, France or Italy.

This section is followed by photos of German troops entering the Sudetenland, fleeing citizens, Hitler visiting the troops in one of his gigantic open cars, Hitler inspecting Czech defenses, having lunch in the field, shaking hands with wounded soldiers, posing with smiling children, women offering Hitler mineral water with Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler in the background, etc.

Published by Zeitgeschichte-Verlag of Berlin in 1938, this example of Hitler befreit Sudetenland is in good used condition with the name of the original German owner inside the front cover, accompanied by the date XII/1941. The ivory covers are stained and the spine has seen better days, but the photo pages are in very good condition. Our photo of the book cover looks somewhat more yellow than it actually is. Only the lettering is in gold. The book has no odor.

This 85 year old book was brought to the United States at the end of World War II by a veteran of Battery C of the 392nd Field Artillery Battalion, a unit of the 42nd Infantry (Rainbow) Division. The Division was in Bavaria in April of 1945 and liberated around 30,000 inmates from Dachau Concentration Camp on the north side of Munich. By the end of the war, the 42nd Division had established an enviable record. It was first in its corps to enter Germany, first to penetrate the Siegfried Line and first into Munich. Rainbow soldiers seized over 6,000 square miles of Nazi held territory during their march across Europe. A great deal of the history of this notable American Division can be found on the internet.