April 5, 2024
PRE-WWII 1930'S GERMAN TOURIST MAP - FRENCH WITH NAZI PROPAGANDA - GERMANY
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See the images. Up for auction is an interesting pre-WWII (c. 1935) tourist map of Germany. In French, titled "L'Allemagne Paradis du Tourisme" (Germany, the Beautiful Travel County). Produced by the Reichsbahnzentrale fuer den Deutschen Reiseverkehr [German State Railway] and German Tourist Information Office, i llustrated by "Reimer."Great art illustrates the various towns and cities and their notable people, buildings, trades and productions, Berlin Olympics, Nazi flags fly above some buildings and in inset large scale map of Europe, reverse with some text and another map of Germany showing distances between towns and rail routes.A description of this item at Cornell University considers the propaganda motives behind the map. It shows cheerful and prosperous Germans, hard at work and play, and "invariably blond," as well as text to map reverse that reads:"The national socialist movement... prepared the way for a complete reorganisation of Germany's political and national life culminating in the national uprising at the end of January, 1933. It was the national revolution that gave the German people the political and economic stability long hoped-for. The disastrous contentions of political parties were stopped, and the national socialist Government had the principle of leadership applied to all organisations of national business.
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