AH - Heinrich Hoffmann Book 1939

[Daniel H.]

Greetings,
I searched the Photos and Paper Items Forum on Hoffmann's name and didn't find a book like this. Are Hoffmann picture books like this one (Das Antlitz Des Fuhrers) fairly common?
Thanks for any assistance. - d.

[ustufvorwaerts]

Hi Daniel,

there´s a whole bunch of Hoffmann books out there - most of them are very common. Like this one - Antlitz des Führers.
To name some other common ones:
Hitler in seinen Bergen
Hitler - Abseits vom Alltag
Hitler - Wie ihn keiner kennt
Hitler in Polen
Mit Hitler im Westen
Jugend um Hitler
But there are also some rather scarce ones such as:
Das braune Heer - Leben, Kampf und Sieg der SA und SS
Der Triumph des Willens - Kampf und Àufstieg Adolf Hitlers
Hitler über Deutschland
Me 109 - der siegreiche deutsche Jäger

plus all the Hoffmann picture books concerning the party rally in Nuremberg.

Cheers,

Ustufvorwaerts
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[torstenbel]

I would not say that they are very common...I agree with the list as given below and I agree with the list of the ones classified as scarce, but the others, although not exactly scarce, are not that common either...I regularly find them and offer them for sale, but you try and find them for sale anywhere else right now...I think I have 3 or 4 in stock at the moment, but I don't always have some in stock...btw, these same books were also issued as miniature books by the WHW...seen also thread http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...ad.php?t=97311 Cheers, Torsten (ebay id german.militaria)...

Hi Daniel,

there´s a whole bunch of Hoffmann books out there - most of them are very common. Like this one - Antlitz des Führers.
To name some other common ones:
Hitler in seinen Bergen
Hitler - Abseits vom Alltag
Hitler - Wie ihn keiner kennt
Hitler in Polen
Mit Hitler im Westen
Jugend um Hitler
But there are also some rather scarce ones such as:
Das braune Heer - Leben, Kampf und Sieg der SA und SS
Der Triumph des Willens - Kampf und Àufstieg Adolf Hitlers
Hitler über Deutschland
Me 109 - der siegreiche deutsche Jäger

plus all the Hoffmann picture books concerning the party rally in Nuremberg.

Cheers,

Ustufvorwaerts
...

[ramon]

Hallo Torsten,


I think you have mis-characterized some of the publications listed above by saying that the small format WHW booklets are the same as the regular Hoffmann series. This is clearly not the case. They may share some illustrations but the larger format volumes have many more photographs and are not comparable in value, numbers extant, or desireability.

Ramon

[torstenbel]

Ramon, yes of course they are not the same and I did not want to create the impression, that they were the same...they are not...the miniature versions contain less then 10% of the photos that are within the larger books. I was just pointing out that there are miniature versions of the larger Hoffmann books, which were also published by Hoffmann, but through the WHW. The miniature versions have the same titles as the large ones and some of the miniature ones were also issued in more than one volume. They are low cost cut down versions of the larger ones which were given by the WHW as receipts for donations. Most of the titles of the larger versions were issued in miniature, but not all and there were also quite a number of additional titles in miniature, that were not available as the large version (as far as I know.. ) Below is an example of such a miniature book. I just thought that it might have been of interest to Daniel, who asked the original question, that there are other versions of these publications. Hope this clarifies my pevious statement..?.. Cheers, Torsten.

Hallo Torsten,


I think you have mis-characterized some of the publications listed above by saying that the small format WHW booklets are the same as the regular Hoffmann series. This is clearly not the case. They may share some illustrations but the larger format volumes have many more photographs and are not comparable in value, numbers extant, or desireability.

Ramon

[torstenbel]

But there are also some rather scarce ones such as:
Das braune Heer - Leben, Kampf und Sieg der SA und SS
Cheers,

Ustufvorwaerts
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Hi Guys, I just got Das braune Heer and am very pleased with it...below is the cover of the book and if anyone would like to see more pics from the photos that are inside the book, then please just let me know...Cheers, Torsten.

[Richard]

The ones that Peter lists as common along with Hitler in Seiner Heimat and Hitler befreit das Sudetenland are actually relatively common and can usually be found without great difficulty in the $35-$70 range. I could supply virtually all of those titles in a matter of a few weeks for probably less than $70 each. It may take some looking, but they can be located if you dig deep enough at a price that won't break someone.
Richard V