This is a very rare photographic Nazi history book in its own right, now far more rare because it was once the personal property of one of Hitler's closest collaborators and one of the three or four highest ranking officials in Nazi Germany - State Minister for National Community Clarification and Publicity (Reichsminister für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda), Dr. Joseph Goebbels.

A very rare 3-1/2 x 4-3/4 inch deckle edged book plate inside the front cover depicts Hitler's Propaganda Minister dipping his enemy (dressed as a joker, or court jester) in an ink well over German words that translate "This Book Belongs to Dr. Jos. Goebbels."

Just how special this example of Ein Volk steht auf! (A Nation Stands Erect!) is can be seen by the superb binding. Bound in beautiful brown embossed and gold-blocked half-leather and fine tan linen, the big 8-1/2 x 11-1/4 inch, 268 page heavily illustrated book is both wrapped in a stout dust jacket and housed in a specially made and printed chip board case. The spine is heavily embossed with a swastika in a wreath.

The book opens with a frontispiece showing a beaming Hitler listening to a Hitler Youth trumpeter over a caption that translates "The Führer and Germany's Future." The title page says Ein Volk steht auf! is a "Book About the Origins, Development and Awakening of German National Socialism" with 200 photographs, assembled by Dr. Erich Reicke, and published in cooperation with the Culture Office of the Gau Gross-Berlin of the Nazi Party by Justin Moser of München (Munich).

The beautifully designed book begins by explaining Germans as a "race" within the general European population. Subsequent chapters explain how the Allies stripped Germans of their sacred honor and foreign possessions after World War I, leaving the population in squaller.

Then came the Führer, who through years of combat with Jewish-Communist enemies regained honor and respect for Germans in Germany allowing them to stand erect with their head held high.

This is an outstanding rare historical book from the library of one of the most powerful political figures in Europe in the 20th century. Excellent condition.

The 200 big, mostly full-page photographs are printed on special finished paper and illustrate perfectly the victory of Hitler and the NSDAP over those who would have simply liquidated the population of Germany and made the country another Soviet "Republic". Every related subject from the birth house of Hitler in Braunau through the 1923 Putsch, and Jewish bankers to huge Nazi mass meetings is covered in unique photos. Some of the text pages are adorned with exceptional pen & ink drawings of events that led to the political successes of Hitler and the Nazi Party.