POLNISCHE Wirtschaft. Kredel Otto, Deutsche Ordnung und polnische Wirtschaft Sonderschrift zur Ausst...

POLNISCHE Wirtschaft. Kredel Otto, Deutsche Ordnung und polnische Wirtschaft Sonderschrift zur Ausstellung "Deutsche Leistung im Osten und Vierjahresplan, oprac. Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, druk. and edited by Karl W. Ahrens, Berlin 1940 - A propaganda brochure on the differences in civilization between Poles and Germans intended, among other things, for the soldiers of the Wehrmacht. For Wehrmacht soldiers; exemplifies the propagation of the Nazi thesis of the superiority of the German people, perpetuates the stereotype of the Polish economy, justified by arguments about Polish cultural kleptomania, prominent Poles of non-Polish origin, German achievements in Poland, German origins of cities, the role of Germans in the Polish conquest of the Ukraine, the German origin of the Polish nobility, the German origins of culture and industry in Polish lands, the decline of the Vistula as a transportation route under Polish rule, the low level of culture and education in the Second Republic, the decline of the former Prussian lands under Polish rule, Jewish influence in Poland; finally, the goal of German rule in Poland was made clear, i.e., a situation in which everything that would happen in the East would serve the security of the German people and the power of theReich (Alles, was im Osten geschieht, hat der Sicherheit des deutschen Volkes und der Größe des Reiches zu dienen); illustrated booklet ch.-b. fot. showing architectural monuments (Danzig, Toruń, Warsaw, Cracow) as the work of the Germans; on the back pastedown part-b. map: MAP OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE POLOCKS...; 32 pp, st. db., softcover (booklet), minor tears of upper edges, format 8o.