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ULTRA RARE NAZI PARTY ILLUSTRATED OBSERVER ISSUES FROM 1932 TO 1938 BOUND AS A BOOK WEIGHING NINE POUNDS!

Early issues of Nazi Party publications are among the most sought after NSDAP material in the 21st century, as researchers and scholars seek to uncover the mysteries of the power behind the little rag-tag Nazi Party and emphasis has been placed squarely on ephemeral material that was overlooked and discarded as “common” during the Third Reich and in the de-Nazification process in the wake of German surrender at the end of World War II. The 36 weekly issues offered here are VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND 80+ YEARS LATER.

The JB or Illustrierter Beobachter was the Nazi Party weekly photo newspaper published in Munich by Verlag Franz Eher Nachfolger (the Central Publishing House of the Nazi Party), but read by just about everybody, all over Germany. Each 10 x 14 inch issue contained about 10-14 pages of the very latest news, photographs and information gathered from around the world including plenty from the United States, France and England. The paper was published every Saturday and sold for only 20 Reichspfennigs, the equivalent of 12 US cents.

Someone in Germany at the time these issues were published with a strong sense of the historical importance of them, took the time to carefully save them and have them bound as a very large hard-back book. These 1930s issues are an irreplaceable, heavily photographic history of the process that lifted the tiny Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei our of obscurity and on to the front pages of newspapers and magazines worldwide.

These Nazi newspapers contain a lot of coverage of the news leading up to the historic German elections that resulted in Hitler becoming chancellor on the “Historic Day” 30 January 1933. Hitler’s revolutionary electioneering flights through Germany (stops in East Prussia, Coburg, Nuremberg and Cologne are pictured), huge rallies and small gatherings, election results, introducing new Nazi politicians and cabinet members, SA marches and gatherings in Berlin after the election victory, NSDAP politicians starting their new jobs, the new Nazi cabinet in the Reichskanzlei in Berlin, and some rest for the Führer at the Berghof at Berchtesgaden after the busy Reichswahl months.

This huge 2 x 10-¼ x 14-½ inch NINE POUND book contains historical Nazi Party and German election material of the most valuable kind. It is an historical treasure in terms of obscure information about the period that would be very, very difficult to find in the largest research libraries, and the image content is unimaginable 80 years after the photos were taken.

The newspaper was, for the Nazi Party (in their own words), "a counter-weight to the Jewish Press" that dominated newspaper publishing in Germany as the small party rose to power. Thus, many of the articles or illustrations in JB in the early 1930s were of the strongest possible anti-Jewish nature many focussing on the "corrupt, lying and shameful" Jewish press in Germany.

There are excerpts from the Wilfrid Bade book SA erobert Berlin, society news and news about European royalty, travel destinations, sports, short stories, poems, crossword puzzles, and advertising for Mein Kampf, Walther pistols, swastika jewelry, Kodak, Rolleiflex and Voigtländer cameras, Nazi flags, Hakenkreuz Christmas ornaments, Salamander shoes, Alpina, Junghans and Kienzle watches, Nivea cream, Bayer aspirin, Siemens and Telefunken radios, Knorr, Dr. Oetker baking powder, Opel, Auto-Union, Mercedes-Benz, WMF, Shell Oil, tobacco, razor blades, etc.

Also bound in this book are the 20 August 1933 Münchner Illustrierte Presse, 10 September 1933 Münchner Illustrierte Presse, 17 September 1936 Kölnische Illustrierte Zeitung, 8 October 1936 Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung, 15 April 1937 Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung, 18 July 1937 Illustrierter Rundfunk, 10 October 1937 Illustrierter Rundfunk, 27 January 1938 Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung, 14 July 1938 Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung, 24 October 1937 Illustrierter Rundfunk as well as the commemorative Nazi Putsch edition of Reclams Universum (Leipzig) dated 9 November 1933. There are a total of thirty-six very rare issues in all. The book is over 2 inches thick and weighs 9 pounds.

Because these news publications were bound they were protected and are still in very good used condition. The big book has no offensive odor. We found about 20 pages with small (old) tape repairs.

The 15 October 1938 edition of Illustrierter Beobachter in the back of the book has a torn and taped cover and the newspaper itself is torn and not complete (see photo left).

Other articles cover the NSDAP Braunes Haus in Munich, the 10th anniversary of Benito Mussolini’s government in Fascist Italy, “America marches…” (The Land of Smiles with photos of FDR, the USN cruiser Arizona, the US Capitol, military training, women in the workforce, female entertainers and even a male manicurist in NY), Jewish politicians and the Jewish world press, German Southwest Africa, the Jewish People, life in the Soviet Union, Hermann Göring in his private life, the 10th anniversary of French occupation of the industrial Ruhr, the American melting pot, the 50th anniversary of Richard Wagner’s death, French violence in Morocco, the NSDAP Charity Fund, Hermann Göring’s visit to Italy, the September 1933 Nazi Party Days in Nuremberg, Hermann Göring’s private visit with President Hindenburg, the September 1936 Nazi Party Day of Honor in Nuremberg, Hermann Göring and the Nazi economic Four Year Plan, the BdM, Marine-HJ, Palestine, new Nazi People's Radios, the FLAK-Artillery School in Wustrow, the “Old [Nazi] Guard” visiting East Prussia, 1937 Day of German Art Festival, the DAF, the 1937 Reichsparteitag der Arbeit and its organizer Dr. Robert Ley, the new Reichschancellery in Berchtesgaden, Il Duce and Count Ciano’s visit to Berlin and Carinhall, and many other news stories.

Bound in this huge book are Illustrierter Beobachter issues dated 22 October 1932, 29 October 1932, 5 November 1932, 12 November 1932, 19 November 1932, 26 November 1932, 3 December 1932, 17 December 1932, 24 December 1932, 31 December 1932, 7 January 1933, 14 January 1933, 4 February 1933, 11 February 1933, 18 February 1933, 25 February 1933, 8 April 1933, 29 April 1933, 5 November 1936, 22 July 1937, 16 September 1937, 14 October 1937, 20 January 1938, 8 September 1938, and 15 October 1938.

These historic Nazi news magazines include photos of Hitler all over Germany - in many different situations and meeting a wide range of people - as well as group photos of large and small SS and SA gatherings, Nazi funerals, Hitler election posters, black entertainers in the USA, Major Draper and Major Ritter von Schleich (in SS uniform) flying under the Tower Bridge in London, Nazi politicians, Nazi rallies at the Sportpalast in Berlin and in Nuremberg, Leni Riefenstahl, French cavalrymen during the occupation of the Ruhr, Dornier sea planes, 1932 Olympic Games facilities in Los Angeles, SA ski competitions, Hitler visiting the Berlin Automobile Exhibition, Dietrich Eckart’s grave in Berchtesgaden, planting a Nazi swastika flag on the peak of the Zugspitze, Göring with Italo Balbo, Hitler on vacation in the Alps, the Spanish Civil War, 9 November Putsch commemorations in Munich, Manfred von Richthofen, 1937 Bayreuth Wagner Festival, “Hitler-Day” in Braunau am Inn, the National Socialist Doctor’s gathering in Braunschweig, baby Edda Göring, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor in Berlin, Charles Lindbergh and Luftwaffe General Milch, Reichsleiter Rosenberg’s birthday celebrations, KdF ships, German military exercises, and hundreds of other rare pictures.

Each issue of Illustrierter Beobachter had cartoons, and in the early 1930s editions many were very anti-Jewish in nature. Caricatures of Jewish bankers with big noses, Jewish salesmen smoking big cigars, Jewish tailors, and even a Jewish journalist being drowned in bottle of ink by a nazi wearing a swastika armband on his uniform!