Geburtstags-Parade: 20 April 1939 Berlin (Birthday Parade 1938: Contemporary History in Color)

This large format book captures in full color all of the varied events of the largest military parade of the (National Socialist) German Third Reich - Adolf Hitler's fiftieth Birthday Celebration. In the wake of a nearly decade-long series of spectacular economic and political successes under the direction of their "Fuehrer",(Leader), National Socialist Germany conducted a celebration spectacle unlike any before or since. Now, for the first time ever, this spectacle is presented in page after page of full color photos unlike any before seen. On the eve of the disaster of World War Two, this was one of the last great events of peacetime Germany. The 62 superlative color photos are mostly full "gate-fold"(two-page), and never before published. German language text with English language photo caption summary enclosure.