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Note page 44 (above) which has the photo portrait of SA Stabchef Ernst Röhm opposite Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler.  In later editions of Das braune Heer, after the infamous Night of the Long Knives, had a photo of SA Stabchef Viktor Lutze instead of the murdered Röhm.

Among the earliest and rarest books in the series of 50 or so Hoffmann Bildbände or Heinrich Hoffmann photo books produced during the Third Reich in Germany, this 96 page, 7-1/8 x 9-7/8 inch, softcover volume is called Das braune Heer - 100 Bilddokumente: Leben, Kampf und Sieg der SA und SS (The Brown Army - 100 Documentary Photos of the Life, Battles and Victory of the SA and SS). This book is from the First Edition of only 30,000 from 1932, before the Nazis took control of the government of Germany.

The forward was written by Germany’s 23rd Reichskanzler and Führer of the Nazi Party, Adolf Hitler himself. With 100 spectacular photographs, the book documents the rise of Hitler and his rag-tag group of National Socialists from the earliest of the 1920s through their parliamentary victories in 1932.

There is a portrait of Hitler in his “Brown Shirt” as “SA High Leader”, pictures of men wearing home made armbands and carrying home made Nazi flags, the burial of a Nazi martyr, early formations such as Stosstrupp Hitler, the storming of the barricades on 9 November 1923, the Nazi martyrs of 9 November 1923, NSDAP Reichsparteitag in Nürnberg in 1927 (the last year Hitler smiled during a parade), Horst Wessel, faces of the SA, Reichsführer-SS Himmler, SS troops from all over Germany, rows of Standards, the High Leadership of the SS (including Sepp Dietrich and Reinhard Heydrich), the Motor SA, the Flying SA, SA horsemen, etc., etc.

Within months of Hoffmann’s publication of this book, Das braune Heer, the Nazi Party was in complete control of the political apparatus in Germany and other photo books followed which depicted the rise of the NSDAP and complete victory in Germany, as well as the cleansing of the Party ranks of undesirable members.

This is a fine FIRST EDITION of Das braune Heer.  It is complete, in very nice used condition and with all its original photographs.  The color dust jacket is an original from 1932.

The 90+ year old Nazi book is extremely rare, has a tight spine and no offensive odor. The photos have a slightly more sepia tint than they appear in the photos on this web page.