Hitler Liberates Sudetenland Original Heinrich Hoffmann photobook 1938

Hitler Befreit Sudetenland (Hitler Liberates Sudetenland) is a historic black & white Nazi photo book published by Professor Heinrich Hoffmann and Zeitgeschichte Verlag in Berlin. This 7-5/8 x 10-1/2 inch, 64 page softcover photo book with an introduction by Konrad Henlein was first published in 1938. It is a First Edition.The original dust jacket and the book itself are in very good condition.

This historical book is filled with over 100 full- and half-page photos of Adolf Hitler, other high ranking Nazis (Göring, Ribbentrop, Henlein, Keitel) and foreign dignitaries deciding the fate of Sudetenland, a part of Czechoslovakia in the fall of 1938.

There are pictures of Hitler with with British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, French Premier Edouard Daladier and Il Duce, Benito Mussolini at the Berghof near Berchtesgaden, at Bad Godesberg and during the 29-30 September 1938 meeting at the Führerbau in München (Munich). The "Munich Pact" was signed on 30 September 1938, an agreement that enabled Nazi Germany to take possession of the Sudetenland without fear of opposition from either Britain, France or Italy.

This section is followed by photos of German troops entering the Sudetenland, fleeing citizens, Hitler visiting the troops in one of his gigantic open cars, Hitler inspecting Czech defenses, having lunch in the field, shaking hands with wounded soldiers, posing with smiling children, women offering Hitler mineral water with Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler in the background, etc.

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