WW 531
Campagna di Russia, by Egidio Franzini. It gives a detailed list of Italian fallen, wounded, prisoners, combatants who fought in Russia. B
Price: $600.00
World War 1 & 2
WW 529
Broadside published in Lyon, France following the capitulation, explaining the 1929 Geneva Convention rules on the treatment of POW’. 74x112cm. B
Price: $800.00
WW 523
D’un Stalag, by Gorges Damougeot-Perron. Published in Paris in 1943, a children’s book about life in a German POW camp. 1000 copies printed; this is copy 178. B
Price: $250.00
WW 522
WW 522
First 21 issues of Le Temer Aire, a children’s comic published in Paris during the Occupation. It ran from January 15, 1943 to August 1, 1944. It was propaganda promoting the main themes of collaboration: Racism, Anti-Semitism, reference to the myths of paganism (Thule, Atlantis ...). It was entirely made by French people, with French capital, and German authorizations. Laced with antisemitism, though very subtle, one recurring story is Le Secret fu Professeur O’brien, who works with a British Jew named Mr. Levy. In one episode Levy is torturing someone who holds the secret of producing gold. Only one (French) university outside of the National Library of France holds this title. B
Price: $2500.00
Note: for more information on this see: https://www.cairn.info/article.php?ID_ARTICLE=RHMC_474_0747
WW 520
A run of 5 issues of Das Schqarze Korps, the official newspaper for members of the SS, all from 1936. Heavy on antisemitism, anti-communist, etc. Extremely rare. B
Price: $1500.00
WW 519
7 illustrated postcards depicting American soldiers in France. B
Price: $210.00
WW 518
7 illustrated postcards depicting American soldiers in France. B
Price: $210.00
WW 517
3 Christmas postcards depicting American soldiers in France. B
Price: $90.00
WW 516
6 semi-erotic postcards of American soldiers in WW1 France. Artwork by Xavier Sager. B
Price: $200.00
WW 512
Rare photo/postcard of Japanese and British troops together. B
Price: $40.00
WW 509
WW 509
11 postcards of Salonica during WW1.B
Price: $220.00
WW 507
The Saintly Hun, by W. Heath Robinson. B SOLD
Price: $600.00
WW 506
Album de Critica. Rare. B
Price: $900.00
WW 501Propaganda leaflet against Jean Zay, former Minister of National Education and Fine Arts. A press campaign, organised by Philippe Henriot, the minister of information in the Vichy government, called for his execution for being "Jewish, freemason and member of the Radical Party", and pointing to his anti-war poem of March 1924, Le Drapeau (The Flag), as evidence of his lack of patriotism. The leaflet shows a humiliating photo of Zay and the text of his poem Le Drapeau on the reverse. AH
Price: $120.00
Note from Wikipedia: In May 1932, Jean Zay (1904-1944) was elected to the French parliament as député to represent Loiret, for the Radical Socialist Party. He defeated the incumbent representative of the Popular Democratic Party, Maurice Berger. He became one of the Jeunes Turcs (Young Turks) who wanted to renew the Radical Party, and was instrumental in the party joining the Popular Front in 1935. After the 1936 election, he was the Minister of National Education and Fine Arts from June 1936. While serving in his position, he extended the school leaving age and introduced a common curriculum in elementary schools. He was a freemason and descended from a Jewish family in Metz.
He resigned as minister in 1939 to join the French Army on the outbreak of the Second World War, serving as a second lieutenant attached to the headquarters of the Fourth Army. He remained a député until 1942, and he was given leave to attend the last session of the French Parliament, held in Bordeaux in June 1940. After the invasion of France by Nazi Germany in 1940, he was one of the passengers aboard the vessel Le Massilia that left from Bordeaux bound for Casablanca on 21 June 1940, with the intention of forming a resistance government in North Africa. He was arrested in August 1940, for desertion, and returned to France where he was held at the military prison in Clermont-Ferrand. He was convicted of desertion by a military tribunal in October 1940, and sentenced to loss of military rank and deportation for life. Held in Marseille, his sentence was commuted to one of internment in France, and he was held in the prison in Riom, sharing a cell with Rabbi Edward Gourévitch. He was allowed to communicate with friends and family, and did not attempt to escape. He was removed from the prison by three miliciens on 20 June 1944, purportedly so he could be transferred to Melun. They murdered him in a wood near an abandoned quarry, at a place called Les Malavaux in the faille du Puits du diable, at Molles in Allier.
The disparaging photo is part of a larger photo showing Zey while climbing the summit of Mont Blanc, Europe’s highest peak, to open a new overnight shelter on August 21, 1938. One hour from the summit, Zey and his friends slept overnight at the Alpine Club, just one hour climb from the summit. Without knowing this fact, the portion of the photo used by the Vichy government makes Zey look like an idiot, which was the goal of the government.
PCA 290
Two cards produced in 1926 by Fabrica do Tobaco Estrelle in Angola showing Hindenburg of Gemany and Moscieki of Poland. B
Price: $60.00
PCA 289
4 humor/fantasy postcard on Russia in WW1. B
Price: $100.00
PCA 288
6 World War 1 French postcards on Russian infantry and Cossacks. B
Price: $150.00
PCA 287
6 French fantasy postcards on the fraternity between France and Russia in WW1. Correspondence on reverse. B
Price: $150.00
WW 500
Soldaten Kameraden. Erinnerungsbuch an die Mobilmachung und den Aktivdienst 193941. #4712. Fascinating look at the Swiss military during World War 2. B
Price: $600.00
WW 497
US Forces telephone directory for Paris, October 11, 1945. Restricted.
Price: $300.00