Old wwii propaganda book

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hi everyone.
was over @ a friends and they pulled out this book.
came with stereoscopic(?) glasses.
anyway,here's pics and if you've got any info. on this like
value and if you've seen these kinds of books before.
supposidely got @ a flee market a while back:

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"The War in the West".

And you got the stereo viewer with it!

Neat!

Set it up and the pics become 3-D.

Germans had the best lenses (Zeiss, Voigtlander, Leitz) and the best film (Adox, Agfa) in the world, so the detail ought to be amazing.

You are a very lucky guy!

What did it cost?

Are there any more??????????????????????????????????????
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it's not mine.i went to a corn roast and they pulled it out.i think they got it from an
aunt who was a flea market scrounger.i think they said she got it for free.
i'll ask more questions from them.what do you think it's worth?
the pics are numbered and i believe they are all there.the photo paper is very high quality.
 
My German is more of the Heinrich Schnibble variety, although Spike Jones might understand it.

This was no 'slap-it-together-real-fast-for-the-market' affair. For one thing, it was entered into the National Socialist Book register on 18 February, 1941, nine months after the Fall of France. It was a very official/official publication, requiring official inspection and approval of both the military and the Party. One thing the Nazis were really good at was setting up a parallel bureaucracy. It was almost as if the Reichsministry of Paper-clip Supply had a parallel in the National-Socialist Office or Paper-clip Supply, a division of the National-Socialist Department of Strategic Paper-clip Co-ordination or something.

In the case of this book, it was checked and approved by the Army and the Party both. Title page translates roughly as:
The War in the West
The Fuhrer's Soldiers in the Field
Volume 2
....... and below that........
Issued by
Colonel of the General Staff
Hasso von Wedel
Section Chief in the High Command of the Armed Forces

and

National Office Leader
Heinrich Hansen
National Press Office of the NS German Workers' Party

The bottom line tells you the name of the printing/publishing company.

On another page there is a list of illustrations, including a separate list of COLOR photographs, very unusual at this time. Colour film processing was very tricky at that time and the film not available generally. Check the names of photographers of the Colour plates especially; Heinrich Hoffmann, Hitler's personal photographer, made a special trip to Dunkirk right after the Allied pull-out and shot rolls and rolls of colour. Some of these were published during the War, but Hoffmann hid most of the negatives for 20 years following the War and they were generally believed to have been lost. He brought them out, finally, in 1965 and they made quite a stir in the London papers' weekend magazines. You just might have some of his photos.

You remark on the quality of the paper. It is quite good enough that it even comes through in digital photos! That this was an OFFICIAL souvenir commemorative publication is beyond doubt.

As to dollar value, I have NO idea. All I know is that I really wish it were in my own small archive.

Hope this is some small help.

I'm off now to goose-step around the block a few times.

GREAT artifact!
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smellie said:
My German is more of the Heinrich Schnibble variety, although Spike Jones might understand it.

This was no 'slap-it-together-real-fast-for-the-market' affair. For one thing, it was entered into the National Socialist Book register on 18 February, 1941, nine months after the Fall of France. It was a very official/official publication, requiring official inspection and approval of both the military and the Party. One thing the Nazis were really good at was setting up a parallel bureaucracy. It was almost as if the Reichsministry of Paper-clip Supply had a parallel in the National-Socialist Office or Paper-clip Supply, a division of the National-Socialist Department of Strategic Paper-clip Co-ordination or something.

In the case of this book, it was checked and approved by the Army and the Party both. Title page translates roughly as:
The War in the West
The Fuhrer's Soldiers in the Field
Volume 2
....... and below that........
Issued by
Colonel of the General Staff
Hasso von Wedel
Section Chief in the High Command of the Armed Forces

and

National Office Leader
Heinrich Hansen
National Press Office of the NS German Workers' Party

The bottom line tells you the name of the printing/publishing company.

On another page there is a list of illustrations, including a separate list of COLOR photographs, very unusual at this time. Colour film processing was very tricky at that time and the film not available generally. Check the names of photographers of the Colour plates especially; Heinrich Hoffmann, Hitler's personal photographer, made a special trip to Dunkirk right after the Allied pull-out and shot rolls and rolls of colour. Some of these were published during the War, but Hoffmann hid most of the negatives for 20 years following the War and they were generally believed to have been lost. He brought them out, finally, in 1965 and they made quite a stir in the London papers' weekend magazines. You just might have some of his photos.

You remark on the quality of the paper. It is quite good enough that it even comes through in digital photos! That this was an OFFICIAL souvenir commemorative publication is beyond doubt.

As to dollar value, I have NO idea. All I know is that I really wish it were in my own small archive.

Hope this is some small help.

I'm off now to goose-step around the block a few times.

GREAT artifact!
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Don't forget the color photographs. :D Not common for that era.

Grizz
 
The process they were using demanded a constant temperature for the film and ALL chemicals (developers, stop baths, bleaches, fixers, stop-bath removers, washing water and so forth) of 82 degrees Fahrenheit (27.77C) within an allowable tolerance of ONE QUARTER of a degree Fahrenheit: .138 of a degree C.

The REALLY advanced labs would have been using cold/warm water-baths to keep their chemicals to temp, connected and corrected by thermocouples.

This was ALMOST impossible to monitor without computerised equipment which still was 50 years in the future.

ANY colour photography was rare until after World War Two. What made it common was the development of films which could be processed in simpler chemistry with less-critical temperature allowances. The Americans were ahead in this department and did produce some advanced colour work toward the end of the War..... for which we are truly thankful, even if the images are grainy. Even then, the mini-labs which exist everywhere today were not possible until the 1980s.

When I worked on the Brandon University yearbook for 1970 (I was Head of the Photography Department) we used black-and-white entirely. Previous yearbooks had used a single colour photograph for the endpapers of the books, but reproduction was miserable, so we went back to reliable, controllable Ilford film and papers...... which were black-and-white. This yearbook is online at the BU website.

COLOUR in 1940/1941 was VERY noteworthy. Prior to that, you started with a black-and-white image and hand-coloured it, frame by frame.

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i used my tablet to take those pics so the lens is not hi-quality.
i will be talking to the owners and maybe i can scan or take pics of the entire book...
 
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