‎HOLK Heinrich ( author - publisher ) - [ ] S.S. ARGO - Steamship ARGO :‎
‎S.S. ''ARGO''. Der Herold des neuen Deutschland.‎

‎".: 16. Berlin, private edition of the author Heinrich Holk, printed by Otto Elsner K.G., s.d. ( 1934-1935), format oblong in-4°, 22 x 28 cm, (3)nn lvs ( blank) + 77 leaves + (4) nn lvs (blank). ( complete ). Entirely printed in red & black, all pages within a typographical border. Page 6 has a tipped on black/white picture of the S.S. Argo (design). Bound in full brown leather, On the front cover a blind tooled decoration in the form of a large losange containing the name ''Argo'' positioned around a circle with in the middle a swastica. Very well preserved copy. This publication was printed in 100 numbered copies, all signed by the author. This is copy nr. 4. The author has added a manuscript translation into English of the colophon '' Printed as a manuscript in 100 numbered issues and hand signed examples ( sic). This is number 4. In this publication the author proposes the construction of a large cruise-ship ( the S.S.Argo) with e.g. a concert hall of 800 seats . This ship should visit the whole world to spread the Nazi ideology and the culture of the New Germany. He worked 8 years on the project ( with collaborators ) but he managed only to work out three of the many areas in which the ship should be active : [1] the media ( press and radio ) ; [2] theatre, concert and musical life ; [3] Academic and Scientific life. On allmost every page the author cites from speaches of ''der Führer'', and on one page he writes that :''obviously the ship is a unique instrument in the sole hands of Hitler''. In the academical part he writes that mathematics and exact sciences need not to be represented '' because they are everywhere the same on the planet''. We should concentrate on German history , German education, German philosophy etc... The book was acquired in England where it must have been send by the author to an unknown British Nazi symphatiser. No other provenance information is available. Very rare, not in Worldcat.."‎

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