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This heavily illustrated hardcover photo book Das Jahr V was published in 1938 and looks back on the fifth year of National Socialist power in Germany - achievements by and facts about the NSDAP in the year 1936. The 7-1/8 x 9-¾ inch, 96 page hardcover book has 72 carefully selected photographs that illustrate those achievements and starts with a Foreword by Generalfedlmarschall Ministerpräsident Hermann Göring. It was published by Freiheitsverlag GmbH of Berlin in the same format as the other Das Jahr books published since 1933 (see links at the bottom of this USMBOOKS web page).

Text covers foreign and domestic politics, culture and the economy, highlighting the many improvements for citizens of Nazi Germany since 1933. It includes numerous graphs and tables showing the many achievements.

There are many photographs of Adolf Hitler as well as Benito Mussolini, Dr. Goebbels, Hermann Göring, SA Stabschef Lutze, Dr. Robert Ley and the Duke of Windsor, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Walter Funk, General Keitel and Generaloberst von Brauchitsch, Reichssportkommissar Tschammer und Osten, the new KdF ship "Wilhelm Gustloff", the return to Nazi Germany of German casualties if the Spanish Civil War. the House of German Art, the new Ordensburg Vogelsang, Hitler Youth Hostels, additions to the Reichsautobahn or freeway system, the AO rally in Stuttgart, Reichsparteitag 1937, remembering the dead at the Nazi martyr monument at the Feldherrnhalle in Munich on 9 November 1937, German industrial progress, foreign dignitaries visiting Nazi Germany, models for future National Socialist buildings, the LSSAH marching through Berlin, new Nazi medals and much, much more.

This original 78 year old Third Reich photo book recapping the fourth year of National Socialist power in Germany is complete and in very nice, little-used condition.