Offered for sale is

DURCH DIE

WEITE WELT

subtitled “Natur, Sport und Technik”

This fantastic book was printed 1940 from the Franck’sche

Verlagshandlung Stuttgart,. Germany and must have been the pride

of the Nazi boy who once had it on his bookshelf.

The size of this rare book is 6-1/2 x 9 inches with 320 pages, it

contains about 3 0 0 photos and illustrations plus a big full color

fold-out!

This very interesting book is divided into eight main chapters and, because it was printed while the German Wehrmacht, Luftwaffe, Reichskriegsmarine and Waffen-SS were at war, this book in strongly influential making the boys who read this book get their mouth watering how to become a war hero for the Reich later in their lives, too!

These are the chapters and part of their content

(it is impossible to list the whole content!):

- “Tales and adventures” (for example a German boy among Native Americans)

- “Aus dem Zeitgeschehen” which is mainly describing all different branches of the German Army, Navy and Luftwaffe

- “Nature and Sports“

- “Technik” (for example how a torpedo works, how it looks like inside a German U-Boat, photo report from a HJ model aviation contest, etc.)

- Misc. (for example Anti-England Nazi propaganda, German songs, artists and painters, First Aid, etc.)

- “Raetsel, jokes, etc.

- “Der praktische Bastler” (do-it-yourself guide for making a soldier board game, how to give flag signals, handicraft tricks, etc.)

- prize contest