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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Dust jacket. First published in English by Macmillan in 1970. The war criminal, Speer's, apologia for throwing in his lot with Hitler. But as Gitta Sereny pointed out, Speer had trouble with the truth. Illustrations. 596 pages. Quoted postage for UK 2nd class. Overseas at least £15.65 as book over ond kilo weight.

Hard cover. Heinrich Hoffmann (illustratore). First edition. 132 p. The title page in belongs to ***Adolf Hitler: Bilder aus dem Leben des Führers*** (*"Adolf Hitler: Pictures from the Life of the Führer"*), another major work of Third Reich propaganda. While it looks like a standard biographical photo book, it has a unique production format and historical context: ### The "Cigarette Card" Album Format As noted at the bottom of the title page, the book was published by the ***Cigaretten/Bilderdienst* (Cigarette Picture Service) in Altona-Bahrenfeld**. This was a highly popular form of interactive propaganda known as a *Sammelalbum* (collecting album). When citizens bought specific brands of cigarettes, the packs included small, glossy photographic prints as premiums. Smokers would collect these cards and paste them into designated blank spaces inside the book to complete the volume. A complete book contains close to 200 individual black-and-white and color cards. ### Production and Content * **Publication Date: ** First issued in **1936**. * **The Contributors: ** Unlike the previous booklet, which relied mostly on Heinrich Hoffmann's captions, this luxury album featured essays written by the top echelon of the Nazi regime to deify Hitler. It includes a dedication by Hermann Gà ring, an introduction by Joseph Goebbels, and chapters by Albert Speer (on buildings), Baldur von Schirach (on youth), and Fritz Todt (on the Autobahn). Very good. No dust jacket. light shelfwear to the cover, all cards present, no ownership marks, no jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. First edition. Quarto. 118 (2) pp. Original light brown cloth with silver lettering on front cover and spine. Beveled edges. Decorative endpapers. 135 stereographs and stereoscope resting in lowered pockets inside front- and back boards. Foreword by Albert Speer, Hitler's chief architect. This striking 3-D photo-illustrated survey of sculpture in the Third Reich covers a wide range of subjects. Among the 135 three-dimensional views are female nudes, human busts of important figures like Adolf Hitler, Albert Speer, Professor Dornier, von Moltke, Gauleiter Wagner, Richard Wagner, male nudes, and military figures. In addition there are photos of eagles, horses, tigers, as well as monumental figures created to decorate facilities of the Luftwaffe, Reichsautobahn, Wehrmacht, Reichsbank, Hermann Göring's Luftwaffe Ministerium, Hitler's Berlin Reichschancellery (several views), Radio Deutschland, Ordensburgen of the NSDAP, the Feldherrnhalle, Reichsparteitagsgelände (State Party Day Grounds) in Nürnberg, the Berlin Olympic Stadium, etc. Many of the 3-D photographs were taken at the House of German Art in München. Each of the 135 stereo photos measure 2-3/8 x 5" and have a full description of the subject printed at verso. Includes eight full page b/w photographic plates in the text depicting nudes, horses and showing some of the most renowned German sculptors of the period, such as Georg Kolbe, Arno Breker, Josef Thorak and Adolf Wamper, at work in their studios. Text in German. Binding with very light wear at head of spine. Text block lightly age-toned. Binding and interior in very good, stereo-photographs and stereoscope in near fine condition. Very good to near fine condition.