The title of this rare 7 x 10 inch, 112 page very, very heavily illustrated soft cover book Die Nationale Erhebung refers to the elevation of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party to the assumption of all important political power in Germany when Nazi Führer Adolf Hitler was named 23rd Chancellor of the country in January 1933.

With the subsequent burning of the Reichstag and the resulting "Enabling Act" passed with the aid of catholic and socialist minorities, Adolf Hitler received an unprecedented four years of exclusive legislative power to accomplish whatever he desired in Germany.

This rare book is subtitled "A Remembrance Book for the German Nation" and was published by Verlag Gerhard Stalling in Oldenburg in 1933 to commemorate the Nazi assumption of power.   This is NOT a modern reprint.

With over 130 rare photographs in a Heinrich Hoffmann style format, this book brought real respectability to Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring, Dr. Joseph Goebbels and the Nazis by depicting them as equals in the center of German political power and not as a rag-tag army of beer hall brawlers.

Rare photographs show the police sharing authority with SA auxiliary police and breaking out swastika armbands for display on their green uniforms. There are many photographs of Hitler, Nazi electioneering, celebrations, Hitler being made Chancellor, joyous crowds, etc. There is even a unique photograph of Adolf Hitler and then-unknown Reinhard Heydrich at the Kroll Opera on 21 March 1933.