{"product_id":"die-wehrmacht-der-freiheitskampf-des-grossdeutschen-volkes-okw-verlag-die-wehrmacht-berlin-1940","title":"Die Wehrmacht: Der Freiheitskampf des großdeutschen Volkes (OKW \/ Verlag \"Die Wehrmacht,\" Berlin, 1940)","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe first annual volume of the German High Command's official pictorial record of the war, issued directly by the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht and edited by Karl Fischer. A gravure-illustrated propaganda yearbook covering the campaigns of September 1939 through summer 1940 — Poland, the West, and the fall of France — assembled from reportage and photography originally run in the OKW's mass-circulation magazine \u003cem\u003eDie Wehrmacht\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eAs a primary source it's the regime's own war narrative in its most produced form: photograph after photograph chosen to present the campaigns as the \"freedom struggle\" of the title, closing with a foreword over a printed facsimile signature of the Generalfeldmarschall heading the High Command. The book carries the state eagle to the binding and is a representative artifact of how the Wehrmacht documented and mythologized its early victories for a domestic audience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eComplete with the color folding campaign map in the rear appendix — the element most often lost from surviving copies. Field-grey linen hardcover, blindstamped eagle to front board, \"1940\" at the spine tail. No dust jacket. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eCondition: Good — light soiling to boards, binding sound.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e319 Pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eOffered as a historical artifact for research, education, and collecting.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Underground Canon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58688917045583,"sku":null,"price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1025\/7177\/0191\/files\/IMG_1542_listing.jpg?v=1788658677","url":"https:\/\/undergroundcanon.com\/products\/die-wehrmacht-der-freiheitskampf-des-grossdeutschen-volkes-okw-verlag-die-wehrmacht-berlin-1940","provider":"Underground Canon","version":"1.0","type":"link"}