Item #10149 Defilement of Race (Rassenschändung). Dietrich Hutten.

Defilement of Race (Rassenschändung)

[Los Angeles?]: [Harry Warner?], [1939]. First English language edition. An English language translation and facsimile reproduction of the widely circulated German pamphlet Rassenschändung (1937) by the German race theorist Dietrich Hutten, in which he describes the irreconcilability of German racial purity and Judeo-Christianity. As stated by Hutten at the beginning, “In order to make the German finally realize the importance and value of his race, this little pamphlet will prove - in broad outline - how Judaism, with the aid of Christianity, has served to defile and to destroy the race” (p. 3).

Although no editor or publisher is listed, this reprint was apparently undertaken by Jewish studio boss Harry Waner in 1939 and distributed to Warner employees. This is verified in a short article titled “Hollywood Expose” in the March 17, 1939 issue of The Jewish News of Northern California, in which Bud Freed writes that “This week every worker on the Warner lot will receive along with his pay check a copy of the German pamphlet, ‘Defilement of a Race’ [sic].” Freed goes on to write that Warner was responsible for the foreword, an unsigned blurb on the front wrapper that states:

“This is a translation and also an actual reproduction of a German work so widely distributed within the Reich as to be almost a text book to those who follow the appalling philosophy of Naziism. It was translated because an American reader felt its contents were of extreme importance as a warning to those who do not fully realize the menace that confronts us all. Here in this little volume is the whole sordid and almost incredible proof of the danger that threatens not only the decencies but the very existence of civilization.”

The cover illustration from the original edition is reprinted inside the front wrapper. The text alternates between the original German and the English translation. Hutten, relying heavily on the work of German race theorist Hans F. K. Guenther and the conspiratorial esotericist Dr. Mathilde Ludendorff, concentrates on the centrality and veneration of Germanic women as “guardian of the folk-soul,” and the contrasting defilement of women under Jewish-Christianity.

Stapled, light blue wrappers (9” x 6”), 51 p. A Near Fine copy. Item #10149

Price: $250.00