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LATE 1930s MUNICH - CAPITAL OF THE NAZI MOVEMENT PHOTO BOOK

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München - Die Hauptstadt der Bewegung (Munich - The Capital of the [Nazi] Movement) is a fine Third Reich book with photos by Helga Glaßner, a young German photographer whose photos also appeared in the 1942 SS propaganda publication Der Untermensch (The Sub-Human).

Every glossy paper page has a large full-width picture with a simple explanatory text of the subject shown.

This 7-3/4 x 9-7/8 inch, 44-page Nazi photo book was published by Verlag Ludwig Simon of Berlin. It is undated but based on the photo content it has to date to 1938. It is in very nice, little-used condition with a tight spine and no odor. The spine of the original dust jacket appears to have postwar book tape on it.

The book is part of a series called die deutschen Bücher (the German Books) and the flexible cover book still has its original cardstock cover beneath the dust jacket.

The first image in the book is the Monument to the Fallen of the National Socialist Movement at the Feldherrnhalle in Munich, flanked by two SS guards (shown above). It is shown from a different angle in several other images further into the book as well.

Other Nazi related subjects pictured are the Honor Temples containing the sixteen coffins of the Nazi ‘martyrs’ who fell during the failed November 1923 Putsch, the NSDAP Braunes Haus, the Führerbau containing Hitler’s official Munich office (shown left), the Königlichen Platz (the rebuilt square bordered by the Nazi Ehrentempel, Führerbau and NSDAP Administration Building - shown at the top of this USMBOOKS web page), and the House of German Art which was opened in July 1937.

Some of the other well-known sights in Munich that are shown in unusual large pictures include the Army Museum with the statute of Otto von Wittelsbach on horseback in front of it, the National Theater, the Glyptothek, the famous Town Hall on the Marienplatz, the Victory Arch on Ludwigstrasse, the Residenz, the Sendlinger Tor (old city gate), Nymphenburg Palace, the English Gardens, the huge Bavaria Statue (shown below), and the famous Hofbräuhaus beer hall.