PRESENTATION COPY - FROM THE LIBRARY OF ADOLF HITLER
MOROCUTTI, CAMILLO.
Gross-Deutschland. Gross-Südslawien.
Wien & Leipzig, Wilhelm Braumüller, 1928.
8vo. In the original printed wrappers. With author's presentation-inscription to Adolf Hitler: "Dem Führer des deutschen Volkes in tiefer Verehrung und Dankbarkeit überreicht vom Verfasser Dr. Camillo Morocutti, Graz, Steiermark im Frühjahr 1934". (i.e. English: “To the Führer of the German people in deep reverence and gratitude presented by the author Dr. Camillo Morocutti, Graz, Styria, in the spring of 1934”).
Wrappers with wear and soiling, spine-ends with loss of paper. Wrappers detached from bookblock. Last leaves creased and slighly miscoloured but internally generally nice and clean. (8), 103
Presentation copy to Adolf Hitler of Morocutti’s controversial work in which he advocated for the union of Germany and Austria (“Greater Germany”) as well as of Yugoslavia and Bulgaria (“Greater South Slavia”) as leading great powers of a new Europe. Morocutti, chief physician in Graz, campaigned throughout Europe for the protection of national minorities especially for the German minority in Slovenia. After losing his medical position due to his political engagement he moved to Germany, where he worked in intelligence and in the propaganda apparatus. Hitler’s private library comprised approximately 16,000 volumes, located in the Reich Chancellery in Berlin, in Munich, and at the Obersalzberg. Due to the war most of the volumes were destroyed and many survived only with considerable damage. 3,000 volumes were secured by the American army and transferred to the United States. Large parts of these were deaccessioned or sold in the 1950s. Today, about 1,200 volumes remain in the Library of Congress and in the Hoover Institution Library and Archives.
Order-nr.: 62974
DKK 12.000,00