JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post
This pamphlet1 by Karl Janovsky seems to be a very thorough and heavy piece of German-interest propaganda regarding the Seudetenland, and seems to have been printed prior to the "annexation". The tragic front cover bears a label for the meeting of the NSDAP Council in Budweis, Czechoslovakia, for June 4, 1939. Unfortunately we see the famous 16th century Black Tower desecrated by two large Nazi banners. The tower survived; the Nazis didn't. (Also--Budweiser, the U.S. beer, was originally supposed to be a knockoff of the famous bier brewed here since the 14th century--after a while, Budweiser USA "changed directions" in the taste of their beer, but kept the marketing and brand, which is enormously valuable.) And so one of the statistical maps, showing a chart of imports from Germany into Czechoslovakia:
And the cover:
Notes:
1. JANOVSKY, Karl. Grossdeutschland und die Sudetendeutsche Wirtschaft. (Bucherei der Sudetendeutschen) Verlag Karl Frank, 1938.7x5", 44pp. Several tables of figures, and two maps. Printed wrappers. Provenance: Library of Congress. No copies are located in WorldCat/OCLC.
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