Germany. A Soldiers Of The Führer In The Field” Stereoscopic Book & Glasses

20 x 28.9 cm, 62 pp. Date of item: 1939 Condition: very good, some signs of aging

A propaganda book about the campaign to conquer Poland. Next to the text it contains 100 stereoscopic pictures (12.9 x 6 cm, index included). They are housed, along with the stereoscopic picture viewer, in the cloth covered thick board front and back covers. The book also contains 5 regular photos of Hitler, Göring, Keitel, von Brauchitsch, and Raeder, and 3 maps depicting the Poland campaign. Published by lieutenant colonel Hasso von Wedel, and Henrich Hansen. Raumbild-Verlag (publisher) Otto Schönstein, Munich.

Footnotes: Raumbild/stereoscopic image – a picture that conveys a 3D-like spatial effect when viewed through the stereo viewer; Heinrich Hoffmann was a German photographer and publisher. He joined the Nazi Party in 1920, and served as Adolf Hitler's official photographer after he took over the party in 1921. He remained in Hitler's inner circle until the end of the war. The United States Army arrested Hoffmann on May 1945 and he was sentenced to four years in prison for war profiteering.