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HUGE WELL-ILLUSTRATED 1943 NAZI BOOK ABOUT THE EUROPEAN POLITICAL, ECONOMIC & CULTURAL COMMUNITY

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Europa: Handbuch der politischen, wirtschaftlichen und kulturellen Entwicklung de neuen Europa is the title of this huge 3 pound well-illustrated Nazi book published in 1943. The title translates as “Europe: Handbook of Political, Economic and Cultural Development of the New Europe” and the huge 9 x 11-¾ inch, 390 page hardcover book has a foreword dated 16 February 1943 by Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. The content was assembled by Deutsches Institut für Außenpolitische Forschung, the German Institute for Foreign Political Research. In his foreword, Joachim von Ribbentrop states that “egotistical British power politics” have divided Europe for hundreds of years and that during World War II they have aligned themselves with the arch enemy of Europe, the Soviet Union. The Nazi Foreign Minister predicts Russian dominance would mean the end of England’s control over Europe. He goes on to say that to prevent this terrible destiny for Europe, Germany, Italy and its allies have expelled England and “other enemies of the New Order” from the European continent. While the battle in the East against the Bolshevist enemy continues, and Japan has been successful in removing the Americans and British from East Asia, Germany, Italy and its allies are looking to the future. After the end of the battle on the European continent, “a new peaceful Europe without outside influence will rise with ample time to blossom”.

In this Europa Handbuch many different authors share their views about the new European future and mutual cooperation. Chapters are titled Europe as an Inheritance and Mission, The Axis as Foundation for the New Europe, European Film, European Awareness, Germany and Europe throughout History, Living Space or Imperialism?, A Cross Section of the European Economy, Germany - The Heart of Europe, Europe as a Cultural Community, Music in Europe, European Sport, Modern Italian Paintings, German Literature and the European Future, etc.

Nazi Reichsminister of Economic Affairs Dr. Walther Funk wrote a chapter about the economic build-up of Europe, and “Justice in the Young Europe” is the title of a chapter written by Staatsrat Dr. Roland Freisler, the Head of the Nazi People’s Court in Berlin. There are also chapters about Europe written from Italian, Spanish, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Finnish and French perspectives.

Right, a photo of French Marshal Pétain shaking hands with Adolf Hitler and Nazi Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop looking on in the background (right).

Other images show a scenic stretch of the German Reichsautobahn, newly built single family homes for the German middle class, WHW charity collections, a Hitler Youth boy with two Italian Balilla, Spanish Falange march, the new Grand Stand at the Nazi Party Days grounds in Nuremberg, fascist Slovakian youth, a HJ tent camp, Wilhelm Furtwängler and the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra, a riding school for BdM girls, RAD men at work, ethnic Germans from Wolhynia returning to Nazi Germany, a European fascist student gathering in Dresden in April 1942, a Georg Kolbe bust of Generalissimo Franco, etc.

Interspersed in the 320 pages of text are an additional 70 glossy pages with pictures from many European countries. There are images of Adolf Hitler’s office in the Reichschancellery in Berlin, the Honor Temples for martyrs of the 1923 Nazi Putsch in Munich, the new Italian Embassy in Berlin, Norwegian Prime Minister Vidkun Quisling visiting Berlin, Hitler with Slovakian president Dr. Tiso, Benito Mussolini, Romanian Prime Minister Ion Antonescu, Finish Marshal Mannerheim, King Boris of Bulgaria and even Marshal Pétain. Nazi Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop is pictured with his Italian counterpart Count Galeazzo Ciano and at a huge gathering of diplomats at the Hotel Kaiserhof in Berlin in November 1941.

There are also pictures of well-known European historical places and sights such as the Charles Bridge in Prague, the Colosseum in Rome, Belvedere Place in Vienna, the Acropolis in Athens, the Burg in Krakau, churches in Kiev, Italian settlements in Libya, the Notre Dame in Paris, the Alhambra in Granada, Budapest, Istanbul, Venice, the harbor of Antwerp, tulip fields in Holland, ....