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ORIGINAL NAZI GERMAN TECHNICAL YEARBOOK 1941 ~ UNUSED

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Technik voran! Jahrbuch für alle Freunde deutscher Technik (Technology Ahead! Yearbook for All Friends of German Technology) is a thick pocket size book published by Verlag B.G. Teubner of Leipzig and Berlin for the State Institute for Professional Education in Trade and Industry. It is filled with many photos, illustrations, sketches and tables and inside the back cover is an unusual 11 inch long fold-out map of the unique, endless German waterways and canal system.

This very in-depth 4-¼ x 5-¾ inch, 232 page softcover book contains heavily illustrated chapters on the goal of the “Greater German War”, German colonies, technical accomplishments of German pioneers abroad, dangers to drinking water, small technical “conquests” that changed the world, ship navigation, inland waterways and their locks, the brown coal industry and its important role in the German economy, technical training for miners, hydraulic construction, anti-ship mines, company logos and production models of German aircraft manufacturers, German agriculture, new sections of the Nazi freeway in mountainous terrain, engines for warships and merchant vessels, the German aviation industry, airplane instruments, Nazi gas masks, important technical requirements for air raid shelters, lies as an instrument of foreign propaganda, etc.

This 1941 edition of Technik voran! also has an extensive, heavily illustrated section on Nazi military medals and orders, even the Grand Cross of the Iron Cross.

Above, the 11 inch long fold-out map of the unique, endless German waterways and canal system acompanied by information about regulation of its levels and stream.

In the back there is a section with book recommendations for adults and teenagers, as well as tables with statistics about export goods from German colonies in Africa and the Pacific, the size of Germany compared to the British Empire, Soviet Union, France, the United States, Japan, Holland, Italy, and other countries, the economic rise of Germany since 1933, the rise of car ownership, postal tariffs, the cost of railways tickets and luggage. There is also an overview of military ranks and insignia of German naval officers and code flag charts.

The 83+ year old example of Technik voran! was never used. No name was ever entered in the section for personal information and there are no entries in the 1941 calendar portion. Complete and in very nice condition, exactly as shown. No writing, no odor.

Photos include stone houses built by German settlers in Africa, electromagnetic machinery, navigation equipment on ships, locks in the Main-Danube canal, huge soil dumping machines and mining equipment, coal mines, towing equipment, tractors and agricultural equipment, freeway construction, vocational training students, the Junkers Stuka aircraft factory, Nazi military medals and some civilian decorations, stars and planets, etc.