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This is a rare, very early Nazi book containing dozens of original period images in color. This was the first very high quality publishing effort of the Nazi Party in the wake of their election victories early in 1933, and after Adolf Hitler was appointed Germany's 23rd Chancellor. This huge 9-5/8 x 12-3/8 inch, 150+ page very heavily illustrated hard cover cigarette album is an excellent example of Deutschland Erwacht (Germany Awakened) published for the NSDAP in Germany by Cigaretten Bildendienst of Altona-Bahrenfeld in 1933. 

Deutschland Erwacht is the Nazi Party's tribute to itself and consist of a very substantial well-written German text, six full-page illustrations in color and black & white, over 60 color photos neatly pasted in (most 1/2-page size), over 160 black & white pictures neatly pasted in, and one huge fold-out photo taken at a Nazi Party rally in Nürnberg that measures 12 inches tall by over 4 FEET long!  

The “SA Brown” colored cloth cover is embossed with gold blocking of the title and the profile of a Nazi against an embossed swastika in an oak leaf wreath.

Drawings in the margins of the book were done by SS-Obersturmführer Felix Albrecht.

The book covers every conceivable aspect of Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party including major personalities, early meetings, the Beer Hall Putsch, electioneering, the Braunes Haus, fighting the Communists, the SA and SS, the Hitler Youth (HJ), BdM, Party Rallies, winning power in Germany, Hitler at the Berghof and at Mad Ludwig's castle Neuschwanstein, etc.

Photos include Hitler, Stabschef der SA Victor Lutze (shown right), Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess, Reichsminister Hermann Göring, Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, Julius Schreck, Dr. Joseph Goebbels, Horst Wessel, Jakob Grimminger and the Blutfahne (Nazi Blood Flag), HJ Leader Baldur von Schirach and Julius Streicher in Nürnberg, the Italian Avantguardia, Ritter von Epp, all the Putsch martyrs, Stosstruppe Hitler, Hitler’s birth house in Braunau, the first office of the NSDAP, the first Reichsparteitag in München in 1923, Deutscher Tag in Nürnberg in 1923, rows of Deutschland Erwache standards, Reinhard Heydrich, SS-General Joseph “Sepp” Dietrich, the beginning of the Reichautobahn, etc., etc.

Above, Adolf Hitler and Kriegsmarine Admiral Erich Raeder. Below, Hitler with his personal photographer Heinrich Hoffmann at Bad Godesberg on the Rhine River.

This is a very nice little-used original Third Reich example of the color edition of Deutschland Erwacht. The book is complete, with a tight spine and it has no offensive odor. All the pictures are present and neatly pasted in the book. The huge fold-out of the Standartenweihe at the Nazi Party Days in Nürnberg in 1933 is present in the back (part of it is shown below).