EXTREMELY RARE ORIGINAL NAZI MAGAZINE DER UNTERMENSCH (THE SUB-HUMAN)

This is easily the most gruesome and derogatory anti-Jewish publication of the Third Reich of Adolf Hitler. Most others seem mild by comparison. It is a large 10 x 13-1/4 inch, 52 page very heavily illustrated magazine, virtually all pages are photos.

Der Untermensch (The Sub-Human) is undated but was probably published in 1942 for the SS-Hauptamt - Schulungsamt by the SS publishing company, Nordland Verlag in Berlin.

Beginning with a quote from Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, the introduction to the book explains that certain populations are so biologically inferior to even average humans that they are virtually incapable of understanding how different they are from the remainder of humanity.

German Aryans are contrasted with the "untermensch," or "sub-human," a category encompassing Jews, Slavs, the feeble-minded, etc. Photographs portray Germans as clean, healthy, industrious and the creators of high culture whereas Jews and others from Eastern Europe are depicted as dysgenic, dirty, bestial, lazy, and living in squalor.Other photographs depict noble German art and architecture juxtaposed with the degenerate art of the Jew. The last pages of the book are devoted to pictures of dead bodies that were projected to be the eventual result of the Untermensch, breeding like rats, and over running civilized western Europe.

The magazine is complete, no pages are missing and in very good condition. Because of the extremely inflammatory Nazi nature of this original Reichsführer-SS publication it was specifically targeted for destruction by Allied denazification teams in Germany after the war and very few examples survivied.

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