Picture Post: Picture Record of the Year. “A Happy New Year, Charlie Rivels, Clown of Olympia.” Vol. I No. 14 (31 December, 1938). A special issue of the British Picture Post, summarizing the events of 1938 at the dawn of the new calendar year. Includes documented coverage of Kristallnacht, which occurred just a month prior to the issue’s release.
The issue reviews the year’s major events with countless photographs and articles. A significant portion of the annual review focuses on Nazi Germany’s annexation of Austria (Anschluss) and presents harrowing images and descriptions from the Kristallnacht pogrom: the state funeral of Ernst vom Rath “while the world roars with protests and pogroms.” The outbreak of violence in Germany following Herschel Grynszpan’s arrest. Jewish shops looted and destroyed, synagogues set ablaze, and 50,000 Jews arrested. Jews forced to scrub the streets for two days under the eyes of Nazi gangs. Nazi mobs inflicting insults and tortures on Jewish citizens. Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister of Propaganda, declaring the pogroms to be “the justified and understandable wrath of the German people.”
The issue also features the Prime Minister of Yugoslavia meeting Hermann Göring, fiery speeches by President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressing a “world of tension and unrest, ” Adolf Hitler’s speech in the Reichstag, and the blind adoration of Austrians for Hitler following Germany’s occupation of their country.
78 pages. 35 cm. Good condition.
