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1933 HARDCOVER EDITION NAZI BOOK WITH ANTI-HITLER CARICATURES TAKEN FROM NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES ALL OVER THE WORLD

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The material for Hitler in der Karikatur der Welt was assembled by Ernst ‘Putzi’ Hanfstaengl. Son of a Munich publisher and educated in the USA, he was a friend and confidant of Adolf Hitler, who found refuge in the Hanfstaengl home in Munich-Uffing after the failed Nazi Putsch in November 1923.

In the 1920s and early 1930s he advised Adolf Hitler on publicity and was his foreign press chief. After the National Socialists were elected to power in 1933 disagreements with Dr. Joseph Goebbels surfaced and Hanfstaengl was removed from Hitler’s staff. He fled Germany in 1937.

Hitler in der Karikatur der Welt - Tat gegen Tinte (Worldwide Caricatures of Hitler - Action Against Ink) is a rare heavily illustrated Third Reich book that contains very unflattering cartoons of Adolf Hitler from publications in Britain, the United States, Holland, France, the Soviet Union, Cuba, Egypt, Turkey, Portugal, Spain and other countries inside and outside Europe. There are even anti-Hitler cartoons from the German press, all dating before January 1933 when Hitler and the National Socialists were elected to power.

This rare 1933 hardcover edition of Hitler in der Karikatur der Welt still has a picture of Hanfstaengl in it, removed from later editions! The 7-¼ x 10 inch hardcover with 176 pages was published by Verlag Braune Bücher in Berlin (print run 21-30,000).

A Hitler quote (shown left) is followed by an introduction by Ernst Hanfstaengl and the publisher Friedrich Carl Rentsch of Verlag Braune Bücher. Both explain the reason for the book - proof of how wrong the world opinion of Hitler had been and how he was judged incorrectly by nearly everybody all over the world. The deeds of the National Socialists had proven all of the cartoons to be wrong.

Every newspaper from which cartoons were published is listed in the alphabetical Index, accompanied by circulation numbers/estimates. If the publisher was Jewish the word Jude or Juden accompanied the name(s). Note the red dots in the picture shown left.

This hardcover 1933 edition of Hitler in der Karikatur der Welt is in very good condition with a tight spine and no odor. While the embossed linen cover has some staining, the interior pages are in pristine condition.

Every newspaper or magazine in which a specific caricature originally appeared is noted as well as the date of publication. The original foreign language comments on each of the cartoons are translated into German, and all caricatures are accompanied by the National Socialist explanation of the real event.