The Luftwaffe strikes! Air war on Poland 1939 -

Complete edition in the original publisher's binding (half-linen OHLn / HLn 8vo in the format 14.5 x 22 cm) with spine and cover title including cover vignette (Nazi national emblem). 117 pages, with a full-page frontispiece photo illustration "The Führer and his Field Marshal", another 45 photo illustrations on art paper, 4 maps and a foreword by Field Marshal Hermann Göring, font: Fraktur. - With statements typical of the time such as: "Comrades! For weeks and months you have experienced with clenched fists and gritted teeth the unheard of and unbelievable provocations that a state structure that emerged from the madness of the Versailles Dictate" (Poland) "dared to offer the Greater German Reich. This Measure is full. The German people can no longer stand by the criminal activity to which hundreds and thousands of our comrades in the former German eastern provinces have already fallen victim. Any further hesitation would now be tantamount to giving up the sacred rights to life of the German nation. Comrades ! The Führer has called! Your great hour is here! The air force - for years the most effective instrument of the Führer's peace policy - now has to prove that it is there at the decisive moment to fulfill its enormous task. The trust of the Führer and the German people to you... Anti-aircraft artillerymen! You will bring down every attacker. Every shot from your guns will save the lives of your wives, mothers and children, and will guarantee the safety of the entire German people. Comrades! I now look each of you in the eye and oblige each of you to give everything for the people and the fatherland. At your head, our beloved leaders, behind you the German nation, completely united under National Socialism. There is only one solution for us: Victory! Hermann Göring, Field Marshal" - Greater Germany in World War II, German / Third / Greater German Reich, Blitzkrieg, National Socialism, bombing war against Poland, unprecedented successes of the German Air Force in Poland, operations of the German Wehrmacht in the East, incredible speed of the victorious Polish campaign , underestimation of German military strength by the Polish army command, Adolf Hitler and the German Wehrmacht, National Socialist propaganda, front reporting, Eastern Front war reporting, the Führer's armed forces, illustrated book from the time of National Socialism, German military before 1945, PK, photography, foreign deployment of the Wehrmacht, Greater Germany's soldiers in the picture, Poland campaign, fighter pilot, the German soldier's face, front fighter for Germany, Knight's Cross holder, deployment on the Polish front, imperishable German soldiering, front shots, German front officer, anti-aircraft defense, Anti-aircraft guns in action, fighter pilots, members of the Wehrmacht in the picture, the leader among his soldiers, ethnic / National Socialist ideas). - War print / first edition in good condition.