Rare books, manuscripts, music, ephemera…
7th August 2013
In the summer of 1940, plans were afoot to invade Britain. As part of those preparations, the central Nazi publishing house in Munich was printing an English-language edition of Hitler’s Mein Kampf, the only official unabridged English version. The invasion never took place and this edition is now extremely rare: only 5 copies are recorded in libraries […]
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24th July 2012
These rather wonderful Olympia-Hefte were obviously conceived by Goebbels as a means of getting the German public behind the 1936 Berlin Games. But they also serve to explain the history of various sports. Parts 2–24 cover skiing, bobsleigh and ice hockey, ice skating, football, handball, hockey, running, pentathlon and decathlon, jumping, throwing, boxing, weightlifting and wrestling, […]
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