Die große Lüge des politischen Katholizismus
Berlin: Zentralverlag der NSDAP, 1938. 41.-60. Tausend. Softcover. Octavo. 40pp., 8 photographic plates. Original illustrated white wraps with black and red lettering on cover. Publisher's device on title page. Polemic pamphlet repudiating foreign press agitation regarding repression of religion in Germany. With statistical data of religious activities in 1936 refuting foreign claims including the newspaper of the Vatican "L'Osservatore Romano." Contains chapters on the upturn of Catholic fraternities (every day a new monastery) including comparison of numbers of monasteries in 1932, 7787, and 1936, 8651, and religious architecture, public relations and religious art. Contains 16 pages of reproductions of artwork and photographs on glossy paper at center including foreign press caricatures depicting Nazi repression of religion, eight photographs of German churches and monasteries and numerous photographs showing public religious celebrations between 1932 and 1937. Includes chapter on activities of religious nonprofit organization and a final chapter with examples of freedom of religion in Germany, e.g. the participation of father P. Paul Schulte in the America flight of the Hindenburg. Advertisement of Nazi publication on back cover. Text in German, Gothic script. Some foxing of wraps, title and last page. Small red dealer sticker on inside front cover. Wraps in overall good, interior in very good condition. g to vg. Item #43267
Price: $175.00