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WW2 Italian Army visor caps, insignia
Die Wehrmacht Italiens 1940, Hermann Meyer-Ricks
This is a very nice, complete example of the heavily illustrated Nazi publication Die Wehrmacht Italiens (Italy’s Armed Forces) by Hermann Meyer-Ricks as published by Verlag Die Wehrmacht of Berlin in 1940. Author Lieutenant Colonel Meyer-Ricks was in charge of several battalions of African native volunteers in the Afrikakorps and died on 23 February 1943 in Tunis in North Africa as a result of an Allied air attack.

After a short introduction about post-World War I Italy and its “soldier savior” Benito Mussolini, this rare 1940 Nazi publication starts with a chapter about the power of Rome through the centuries. The next chapters cover the Italian Army, the Italian Air Force, the Italian Navy, the Fascist Militia and “citizen soldiers” (Cittadino-Soldato - the Italian equivalent of the Nazi Volkssturm), as well as the Italian quest for Lebensraum and the creation of the modern Italian Empire. The last chapter is called the “Mutual Way Forward of Germany and Italy”.
Il Duce in North Africa
WW2 Fascist Italian uniforms
Il Duce Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler
Italian Navy ships 1940
WW2 Italian Navy, Fascist Militia
Il Duce Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler
Mussilini and Victor Emanuel III
WW2 Italian Air Force
Italian Black Shirts, Fascist Militia
WW2 Italian artillery
WW2 Italian Army weapons, hand grenade
Die Wehrmacht Italiens 1940, Hermann Meyer-Ricks
The 5-¾ x 8-¼ inch, 64-page softcover book contains very rare photos by Heinrich Hoffmann, Weltbild, Scherl Verlag, Associated Press as well as maps and illustrations of Italian weapons, insignia, uniforms, field gear, etc.

This original 81 year old example of Die Wehrmacht Italiens is complete and in very nice, little-used condition. No writing, no odor.
Musketiere des Duce, Mussolini bodyguards
Adolf Hitler in Rome

Other related material for sale on USMBOOKS.com:

- English language 1927 book about Mussolini
- Genuine Third Reich postcards of Il Duce and Adolf Hitler
- Giorgio Pini biography of Benito Mussolini from 1942
This rare 1940 Nazi publication Die Wehrmacht Italiens is for sale
for $55.00 delivered by Media Mail in the continental USA.
 
USM book #1143

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1940 NAZI WEHRMACHT PUBLICATION ABOUT THE ITALIAN ARMED FORCES ~ HEAVILY ILLUSTRATED

DIE WEHRMACHT ITALIENS HEAVILY ILLUSTRATED 1940 NAZI PUBLICATION ABOUT THE ITALIAN ARMED FORCES

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