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1941141058Bordeaux.: Imprimerie Delmas 1941. Paperback. Aigle et croix gammée en gaufrage de la couverture. <b>Livre en français</b>. Couverture souple. Broché. 104 pages. 16 x 22 cm. <i>ref. 141058</i> Imprimerie Delmas paperback
19762090502113709065Not Available 1976. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
193446966London: John Lane The Bodley Head 1934. First edition. 8vo. xvi 203 5 pp. Publisher's black cloth yellow lettered to the spine and upper board owner's inscription dated 1937 illustrated dust jacket. 40 black and white photographic plates mostly portraits of the leading figures of the Nazi Party. The uncommon jacket rather perished with losses and splits the latter rejoined with tissue on the verso the book itself generally very good. "An instructive book for anyone on the look-out for a dictator" written in a slightly mocking tone including portraits of some of those executed on the Night of the Long Knives. London: John Lane The Bodley Head unknown
19371315<p>48 pp. bound typescript with manuscript corrections German language. 4to. Very good. Black paper wrappers with title texts and author in white ink. 1315</p><p><i>A fascinating original work perhaps by an advanced student or young teacher concerning the political pedagogy of Friedrich Ludwig Jahn founder of modern gymnastics and his importance for German ethno-nationalism's spiritual and athletic preoccupations. The text is a chilling demonstration of the links between the sport of gymnastics and ideas of physical perfection and the purification of bodies that Nazis advocated. We believe it was never published. No record in OCLC.</i></p>
1936159271936. Committee on Justice for Victims of Nazism. Facts on Nazi Germany 1936 anti-Nazi report documenting early concentration camp discipline and political repression under the Third Reich issued to mobilize American awareness during a period of widespread isolationist sentiment in the United States. Produced three years before the outbreak of World War II the document records one of the earliest organized efforts by an American advocacy group to circulate evidence of Nazi violence specifically targeting the treatment of political prisoners in the initial concentration camp system established after 1933. The report identifies Esterwegen as a site of incarceration for political opponents and includes translated internal regulations that detail punitive discipline forced labor expectations and execution threats directed at prisoners categorized as political dissidents Jews and alleged enemies of the state.<br /> <br /> Editorial Board of the Committee on Justice for Victims of Nazism. Facts on Nazi Germany. Number Three. New York: Committee on Justice for Victims of Nazism October 15 1936. Mimeographed document. The publication consists of 11 mimeographed pages and includes contemporary marginalia and underlining in pencil indicating close reading by an early owner. The text opens with an editorial statement noting that the committee had obtained the material "a few days ago" followed by an appeal to American audiences: "By publishing this horrendous document we wish to bring to the consciousness of the American public the plight of the German people under barbarian Hitler rule.the vast majority of the German population looks to the world outside particularly America for moral support." The reprinted German directives emphasize coercion and ideological enforcement stating "Tolerance means weakness.ruthlessness will be exercised when the interests of the Fatherland are at stake." Detailed disciplinary measures include confinement on bread and water corporal punishment and execution for acts such as alleged mutiny or resistance. Specific infractions are enumerated including penalties for writing more than two letters monthly speaking disrespectfully to guards or minor breaches of barracks discipline demonstrating the totalizing regulatory system imposed within the camp.<br /> <br /> Issued during a period when U.S. public opinion remained divided over involvement in European affairs this document contributes to the study of early transnational anti-fascist networks exile politics and information dissemination prior to the consolidation of wartime alliances. Advocacy groups such as the Committee on Justice for Victims of Nazism attempted to counter limited press coverage and official reluctance to confront Nazi Germany by distributing translated materials that documented internal repression. The inclusion of Esterwegen regulations situates the publication within the early development of the concentration camp system before its later expansion and transformation during the war. Minor edge wear horizontal crease last page detached with toning and small losses at the fold and scattered pencil markings; overall good to very good. A scarce example of prewar American anti-Nazi advocacy in printed form with documented engagement by a contemporary reader. unknown
1974List3157St. Petersburg Florida: unpublished 1974. Ninety-four typed and photocopied pages measuring 8 ½ x 11 inches in a soft binding. Binding with wear; pages generally excellent to Near Fine. Overall excellent to Near Fine. Annemarie Bliwernitz 1905–2005 née Entz was born in Notzendorf East Prussia. In 1952 after surviving both World Wars she and her husband Bruno 1900–1992 immigrated first to Canada and then to the United States. Offered here is Annemarie’s unpublished memoir written between 1972 and 1974.<br /> <br /> Bliwernitz grew up in a wealthy land-owning country family which she remembers lived far west enough that they did not have to flee the Russians during World War I and was less affected by the postwar economic situation than were city residents. Most of the memoir is taken up by Bliwernitz’s remembrances of World War II and life leading up to it. Of Hitler’s rise she writes:<br /> <br /> “During these years conditions got worse in Germany . A new name came up ‘Adolf Hitler.’ – It was not hard for him to find followers now by the thousands and soon by the millions. He dared to stand up against the Communists with his brown uniformed S.A. men and a new wind seemed to blow over our illfated land. No wonder young people looked up to him and followed the new star nobody had much to lose. . Bruno and brother-in-law Willy after some meetings attended showed up in the new brown uniform also and farmers and laborers seemed to be united in that new idea. – It really changed Germany in a short time nobody could deny that unemployment ceased people got jobs again and housewives and mothers could buy the necessities of life for their families especially food. And it brought us to our feet again also.â€<br /> <br /> Though of course Bliwernitz maintains that the “Concentration Camps and what happened in them was not known to the German people" she mentions that Bruno quickly became an Arbeitsdienstführer—essentially a labor camp overseer—and remembers dissenters being disappeared:<br /> <br /> “As an example I will tell about Bruno’s oldest brother Alfred. He was all against Hitler from the beginning. One day he came home and picked up his neighbor’s paper at his frontdoor and wrote his ideas about Hitler and his lies down with pencil. This neighbor reported him they picked him up and that was the last his family saw of him. They were told ½ year later that he had died in Stuhm West Prussia a Concentration Camp. No explanation to his wife whatsoever. The same destiny happened to my co-worker a highly educated person at the Translation Office. She said in the lavatory where many ladies could hear: Hitler’s big picture in the office should be placed here in the toilet-rooms where it belongs. One of the ‘kind’ co-workers reported her and she came next day only to pick up her belongings and was not seen any more.â€<br /> <br /> While Bruno is sent to the Eastern Front Bliwernitz and their children flee the Russians trying to reach the Americans on the Western Front. Along the way they encounter deserting German soldiers and near Hamburg liberated camp inmates:<br /> <br /> “Shooting started close to us and we heard bombs exploding would we be hit We found out that the Concentration Camp near us had been opened and those freed inmates had shot their guardians. At daybreak we met the first one still in his black and white striped prison-suit kneeling on the ground by the chicken-coop and with his both hands feeding himself out of the bowl with the chicken food. . They came to us begging for a little bit of salt to cook the horse-meat they had cut out of the dead horses lying along the ditches . We talked to them and I remember one told me he was imprisoned because of his religion not to go to any war. He was from Elbing where I had gone to school as a young girl.â€<br /> <br /> The family are reunited with Bruno and shortly before they surrender to the Americans they destroy the evidence of their party involvement: “Bruno’s N.S.D.A.P. membership-card my certificate for the ‘mother’s cross’ the passports of Horst and Juergen showing that they had been students of the Nazi-school in Stuhm etc.†After the German surrender the family is sent back east where they struggle to avoid starvation then return west where they are sent to live in Hardegsen. They finally decide in 1951 to emigrate as life in postwar Germany is simply too difficult but make the mistake of being honest about their history:<br /> <br /> “Another big obstacle for us was that Bruno had been in a member in a Nazi-party though not an active one. But it was still a handicap in those days for any undertaking. We had not kept it secret in our immigration papers and they wanted a detailed description about our political involvement. That we did wrote a long letter in German didn’t have the money for an interpreter and never got an answer. . That was a bitter pill to swallow.â€<br /> <br /> After this they decide to try for Canada instead and this time savvily “didn’t mention any Nazi-party attachmentâ€. This is a success; the family moves to Winnipeg and eventually to St. Petersburg Florida where the narrative was written. Bliwernitz recalls working as a housekeeper which she contrasts with her previous life in which she and her family would not allow maids farm hands or tradesmen to eat at their table with them.<br /> <br /> Of interest to historians of the German civilian experience during the Second World War especially that of women and children. unpublished unknown