Das Führerkorps des Dritten Reiches (The Corps of Leaders of the Third Reich)

Kiel: Nordische Rundschau, 1937. First edition. Softcover. Very good+ condition. Octavo. 31(1)pp. Illustrated tan wraps with brown lettering circling Nazi symbol (Eagle atop Swastika framed with wreath), protected by modern mylar. Facing foreword on verso of title page: Full page Hitler portrait in color painted by Kunz Weidlich tipped in, with Hitler´s signature printed beneath. Verso with full page sepia-toned portrait of Gauleiter Hinrich Lohse.

Contains short bios of 65 leading personalities of the Third Reich, with sepia-toned portrait photographs. (truncated) Joseph Goebbels (propaganda minister), Hermann Göring (commander-in-chief of the air force), Rudolf Heß (Hitler´s deputy), and Max Amann (Reich Leader) with larger photographs (5 1/4 x 4") tipped-in, and sixty portrait photographs (3 x 2 1/2"), including Heinrich Himmler (head of the SS), Hans Frank (the oldest fighter of the movement), Baldur von Schirach, Julius Streicher, and many Gauleiter (head of local Nazi districts). Each of the photo pasted in with brief bio. List of photographs and excerpt of Max Amann's speech on nation and newspapers, September 9, 1935 at the Reichsparteitag in Nuremberg. Scarce. Text in German. In very good condition. (Inventory #: 52853)