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Das Antlitz der Deutschen Frau, 1938 First edition with Emmy Goering foreword
Das Antlitz der Deutschen Frau, Henrich Hansen, Westfalen-Verlag GmbH Dortmund 1938, A.R.Marsani
Emmy Goering, Hermann Goering, Edda Goering 1938
This is a rare 1938 Nazi photo book called Das Antlitz der Deutschen Frau (The Face of the German Woman) with a foreword Emmy Göring. Former actress Emmy Sonnemann Göring, was the wife of Hermann Göring, World War I fighter pilot ace, recipient of the Pour le Mérite, President of the Reichstag, Head of the Four Year Plan, Nazi Aviation Minister and Reichsjägermeister.

The first photo in the book, opposite Emmy Göring's foreword, shows Hermann Goring in his Field Marshal uniform standing over wife Emmy and daughter Edda.
Emmy Goering foreword in Das Antlitz der Deutschen Frau, 1938
The foreword sets the tone for the book; the importance of the role of the German woman and mother in the nation's past, present and future, and as a wife. The approximately 100 (unnumbered) glossy art paper pages have clear photographs of German women greeting Adolf Hitler, mothers and babies, women at work in factories and at home, cooking and eating, in folklore clothing, children in NSV homes, NSV nurses, BdM girls in sport clothing, even an ethnic German Girl Scout from German Southwest Africa.
Aryan German woman
Nazi nude, Fritz Klimsch
Adolf Hitler quote
German women in the work force, Frauen helfen Siegen, Siemens
The last page of the book has photo credits including well-known photographers like Heinrich Hoffmann, Erna Lendvai-Dircksen, Dr. Paul Röttger, Hans Retzlaff, Fritz Bruno and others.
 
Hitler Youth sport shirt, BdM sports
 
This original 8-5/8 x 9-3/4 inch example of Das Antlitz der Deutschen Frau has gold blocking on excellent, stiff, dark brown softcovers and was published by Henrich Hansen for Westfalen-Verlag GmbH of Dortmund in 1938. A.R.Marsani was responsible for the photo content and layout.

This 86 year old Nazi photo book is complete and in nice used condition, no odor.
Karl Diebitsch painting nursing mother
Magda Goebbels and children
A photo of Nazi propaganda Minster Joseph Goebbels' wife Magda surrounded by her children (including Harald Quandt, the son from her first marriage to important German industrialist Günther Quandt, shown below right), accompanies her radio speech on the occasion of Mother's Day in 1933, and the 1938 Mother's Day speech given by Reichsminister Dr. Frick is also part of this 1938 edition of Das Antlitz der Deutschen Frau.
It also contains illustrations of women by Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach, Karl Diebitsch, Fritz Klimsch, and other well-known German artists.
Nazi swastika brooch
BdM girl
 
1930s German woman glamor shot
 
Blut und Boden, Blutbewusstsein, Blutreinheit
 
1939 Nazi magazine Freude und Arbeit (2 / 4)
Above, advertising for this book published in the
1939 Nazi magazine Freude und Arbeit (2 / 4)
ethnic German Girl Scout from German Southwest Africa
Hitler admirers

Also for sale on USMBOOKS.com, a 132-page Song Book of the National Socialist Women's League.  We are happy to combine shipping of multiple purchases!

This 1938 First Edition of Das Antlitz der Deutschen Frau is
** SOLD **
 
USM book # 1017
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RARE 1938 NAZI PHOTO BOOK 'THE FACE OF THE GERMAN WOMAN'

DAS ANTLITZ DER DEUTSCHEN FRAU
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