Die Wahrheit über Palästina – “The Truth About Palestine” by Fritz Kohler. Published by Henry Burmester, Bremen (Germany) [1939]. Copy from an administrative Wehrmacht soldiers’ library, with a Nazi Wehrmacht ink stamp. In German. Rare.
Nazi propaganda booklet, anti-British and anti-Zionist, portraying the Zionist enterprise in Palestine as an imperialist conspiracy between Jews and the British. Throughout the booklet, the author distorts facts and accuses Britain of political and colonial “corruption” in the Middle East, with the Jews depicted as part of an international conspiracy. The author blames the Jewish Agency and its leaders for dispossessing the Arab population of the Land of Israel in order to strengthen the Zionist-British alliance—a colonial takeover allegedly driven by wealthy Jews in England. “Thus, the poor ghetto Jew became a violent imperial Jew.” The content seeks to convince the German reader that hidden motives lie behind British commitments such as the Balfour Declaration, aiming to intensify opposition to Zionism while rallying sympathy for the Arab world for the Third Reich’s strategic needs.
The cover features a composite illustration: a Zionist figure, a British soldier, and an Arab fighter with a knife, set against a map of the Land of Israel with references to the cities Haifa, Jaffa, and Jerusalem.
100, [8] pages + [8] photo plates. Good condition.
