first edition Softcover
1926 · Leipzig
by Franke, Helmut
Leipzig: Der Aufmarsch Verlagsgesellschaft, 1926. First edition. Softcover. 8vo. v, 170, [5]pp. Original color illustrated wraps. Scarce mid 1920's publication containing a collection of articles by H. Franke on the history & development of the following German paramilitary nationalist organizations: Stahlhelm, Wehrwolf, Jungdeutscher Orden, Wiking and Tannenbergbund. Helmut Franke (along with Ernst Jünger, Franz Schauwecker, and Wilhelm Kleinau) was the editor of the right-wing "Wochenschrift des Neuen Nationalismus," which was a supplement to the periodical "Stahlhelm." They pushed for a mobilization against the parliamentary-democratic system of (truncated)