Vogel, Alfred. Erblehre und Rassenkunde in bildlicher Darstellung [“Racial Biology and Ethnology in Pictorial Presentation”]. Graphic reproductions by Eberhard Braucht.

Auction 92 | Thursday, February 18th, 2021 at 1:00pm

Fine Judaica: Rare Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Arts

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Vogel, Alfred. Erblehre und Rassenkunde in bildlicher Darstellung [“Racial Biology and Ethnology in Pictorial Presentation”]. Graphic reproductions by Eberhard Braucht.

<<First edition.>> Loose as issued <<all complete,>> including elaborate colored charts, illustrated and photographic plates. 71 plates in total. Original portfolio with printed title, few stains, spine worn. Folio. From the estate of the late Sgt. Richard K. Lehne, (1920-2015) who served during and after WWII as a German translator and interpreter with US Army Intelligence, stationed in Oberammergau, Bavaria.

Stuttgart: Verlag für Nationale Literatur Gebr. Rath 1938

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $2,200

The illustrated plates in this scarce portfolio were intended for school instruction. Through these vivid racist and anti‐Semitic presentations, students would imbibe the rabid Nazi theories of race, with its pseudo-scientific basis in modern genetics. No doubt due to such insidious pedagogic tools as this portfolio, by the time Hitler unleashed the Final Solution, the belief that Jews were racially inferior was pandemic throughout German society. Alfred Vogel, a biology curriculum writer and elementary school principal in Baden, worked alongside artist Eberhard Brauchle to create these extremist pedagogical images using the latest in color printing technology.