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The name is historical and goes back to when we solely sold posters relating to the Third Reich Era.

We have since developed way beyond this due to the expectations, needs and requests from our varied and worldwide customer base. The price of original period pieces is prohibitively expensive and the requirements for careful storage of them often mean they are unable to be displayed and that is where we are able to help with faithful reproductions or period pieces.

Our customer base includes, museums, military establishments, veterans, T.V prop departments, university libraries and private collectors who are looking for some extra context to add to their collection.

Our wide range of translated books gives the reader an insight into how and why the Third Reich was established and why things happened as they did.

Why do we sell Third Reich related items ? Well one major factor is that their is less competition. As sites such as Amazon and E Bay have banned such items from sale it has not lessened the demand for them and indeed it can be said by banning them they have made them more desirable and have created a larger cross section of interest in this specialist niche in the marketplace. The inability to purchase on these platforms has meant that people and institutions now come to us for these items. None of these items are intended, and nor do, they incite any form  of "hate" , "intolerance" or "violence". They are meant for academic and historical  study and if abused then that is due to the interpretation of the individual not the contents of the book. If you want to blame books and ban them from sale  then you had better start by banning the Tora, Koran and Bible all of whom have passages which could be said to incite hatred, misogyny, or intolerance in one form or another.

We do offer for sale a selection of Allied posters but as these are readily available elsewhere we do not see much demand for them, but we do still offer them for sale in the interests of diversity of opinion and balance. We did however have to stop selling the Churchill busts as in 5 years we sold 1 compared to over 100 comparable sized busts of Adolf Hitler, we do not stock what people do not wish to purchase.

We advance no political agenda other than freedom of thought and expression. If you dislike what we sell then feel free to take your business and political ideology, whether Red or Brown, elsewhere.

The history of, and leading up to, WW2 is forever and can not be denied. It is not yours, or ours, to erase, rewrite, tear down or deny !

The society we have today is the child of the past and it is what it is so act accordingly.

GERMANIC LEGACY IN THE MIDDLE AGES

£8.50

In stock (can be backordered)

Description

Translated from the Third Reich original Germanisches Erbe im Mittelalter Dr. Bernhard Kummer, which appeared in the November 1935 issue of Der Schulungsbrief. The theme is that traces of the native, pre-Christian Germanic culture resurfaced in various forms throughout the Middle Ages despite church and feudal system. The original illustrations are included.

40 pages

EXCERPT

Seven hundred years of German history lie between Charlemagne and Luther, exactly the same as between Armin the Cherusker and Charlemagne. In thefirst century A.D., Roman imperialism is defeated by Germanic man. In the eighth century, the King of the Franks becomes the “Roman Emperor” in Germany. At the beginning of the 16th century, a German monk stands before the Roman Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire of German Nation and inwardly separates Germany and the Nordic lands from this empire’s soul, Rome’s church.

The Middle Ages begin and conclude with the struggle for the true faith and for religious freedom. It begins with Widukind’s baptism and ends in Wittenberg at the hour when Luther casts the Pope’s excommunication into the fire. It begins with the devotion of all Christians to the “one, holy Catholic church” and ends with protest against it, with an escape out of all the borders and walls of its sphere with an expansion of our thought and faith into a new world. It begins with Charlemagne’s Latin church law and cloister school and it ends with Luther’s Bible translation and with Hans Sachs in Nuremberg. It begins in the peace of cloister isolation and ends in the age in voyages of discovery and the art of book printing.

The Middle Ages were dominated by a Latin guardianship of German life and faith, of German language and custom, of German art and politics. But itlived from a legacy of Germanic culture and combined with the foreign education or grew in the struggle with it to new value.

German life was stretched between Germanic and anti-Germanic forces. If on the one hand at the beginning of this period an emperor has the heroic songs of Germanic dialect from pagan time destroyed, so on the other hand does a monk write in Lain verses a martial song about Germanic royal offspring, about Walther, Hagen and Hildegund. And still at the end, when Martin Luther already takes his first steps into life, the Archbishop in Mainz bans “Christian books” that “have been written about divine things and about the highest truths of our religion” from being translated from the Latin intoGerman, a language that, as he believes, in its “poverty” never “suffices” as expression of our religion. He declares it a “disgrace for the religion” that such publications already “are in the hands of the common people”. But a Monk, well-read in all these publications, listens to the folk in the markets and alleys in order to write the “Holy Scriptures” anew in German to speak to its heart. And between the monk in St. Gallen, who writes the Walthari Song, and the one in Wittenberg, lies exactly the middle of the great peak of German language, German art, German custom, German piety. From this peak alone, which the folk climbed, can the Middle Ages be surveyed.

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