1940 WEHRMACHT THIRD REICH PHOTO BOOK

HARDCOVER PHOTO BOOK OF THE NAZI INVASION OF POLAND, NORWAY, HOLLAND, BELGIUM, LUXEMBOURG AND FRANCE,A FINE NAZI PHOTO BOOK ABOUT GERMAN MILITARY ACTION BETWEEN 1 SEPTEMBER 1939 AND 31 AUGUST 1940. The book Die Wehrmacht is subtitled The Battle for Freedom of the People of Greater German Nation and the the 320 pages cover the first War Year from 1 September 1939 until 31 August 1940. The material was assembled by Karl Fischer for the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW) and the heavily illustrated hardcover book has a foreword by Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel. Chapters cover the invasion and quick victory(Blitzkrieg) of the German Wehrmacht in Poland in September / October 1939, the fight for Lemberg (now Lviv in western Ukraine), Hitler visiting soldiers at the front, ethnic German civilian casualties, the victory parade in Warsaw, and the German-Soviet Demarcation Line (both countries invaded Poland). There is a section about the Wehrmacht in Norway in April 1940 covering the Altmark Incident, troop supplies, the end of the heavy cruiser Blücher, the battle at Narvik, all accompanied by wonderful pictures of Nazi Fallschirmjäger (paratroopers), Gebirgsjäger (mountains troops) and soldiers in action, U-boat commander Günther Prien at Scapa Flow, maps and surrendering British soldiers being made prisoners of the Germans. Die Wehrmacht 1940 contains chapters about the Maginot Line bunkers, modern German officers, Nazi submarines before the section about the invasion of Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg and France in May 1940. Pictures show Fallschirmjäger after their capture of the strategically important Eben Emael bunkers on the Belgian-Dutch border near the Albert Canal, heavy fighting, German medics at work, communication troops (even a Kradmelder on a motorcycle), Moroccans in French uniforms, destroyed French equipment, Wehrmacht soldiers in Paris, French POWs and fleeing citizens, Nazi soldiers with machine guns and flame throwers, surrender at Compiègne, and photo of Hitler surrounded by newly minted Field Marshals, Keitel, Von Rundtedt, Von Bock, Von Brauchitsch, Von Leeb, List, Von Kluge, Von Witzleben and Von Reichenau as well as Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring. Published by Verlag die Wehrmacht in Berlin in 1940, this 6 x 8-¾ inch, 320-page Feldgrau linen hardcover example of Die Wehrmacht 1940 is in nice used condition.