Deutschland Erwache History & Development of the Nazi Party and the "Germany Awake" Standards

 

What logo, with Sanskrit roots, was formerly adopted by The National Savings Bank, graced the dust jacket of Rudyard Kiplings’ Just So Stories, and today, whilst banned from public display in Germany, is contentiously acknowledged, worldwide ? The answer is the Swastika, adopted by Hitler for his ’Deutsche Arbeiter Partei’ in 1920 and utilised as the emblem of the whole Third Reich after he was made Chancellor in 1933. These anecdotal incites are interwoven throughout "Deutschland Erwache", a 500 page book, (with some 750 photographs) conveying the importance of Standards in the context of the Third Reich and Hitlers’ National Socialist State. Based upon ten years of research, "Deutschland Erwache" reveals much ’first time’ information sourced from American and German archives, also from a huge number of institutions and private individuals. From the origins of the Swastika (the Sanskrit word ’Svasti’ meant luck or blessing), to confirming the long lost whereabouts of the ’Adolf Hitler’ Standard, "Deutschland Erwache" re-defines a contentious historic period (via a previously neglected subject), challenging our more comfortable beliefs and all hypothesis to date. The author, an English, Military Historian, with a consummate passion for his subject (and a number of published titles already to his credit), has collated, with objective accuracy, anecdotal flair and detail, an unrivalled tome. For the specialist researcher/collector the book provides an indispensable, focused encyclopedia, whilst for the more general reader, in ’setting the standard’, "Deutschland Erwache" will truly awake a new found fascination.

 

Ulric of England

Hardcover 512pp

Book Code:  RZ0115