The Thousand‑Year Conspiracy 1943 1st Ed SIGNED Paul Winkler to Lee Falk RARE For Sale

Very good condition. Book is clean and tight with no markings. PLEASE NOTE there is no jacket. There is an accompanying Publisher\'s Review Slip in the front of book. Signed on the half title page To Lee Falk with the warmest friendship of Paull Winkler May 6, 1959 ( after 16 years). Lee Falk was an American writer, cartoonist, playwright and theater director best known for creating Mandrake The Magician and The Phantom. Winkler and Falk worked together when Winkler published Falk\'s iconic superheroes to European audiences.
First and only American edition; \"A\" at copyright with Scribner colophon. Published subsequently by Herbert Jenkins of London in 1944 and later published in 1946 by Hachette with the title \"Allemagne Secrète,\" or Germany\'s Secret. The title refers to a proposed conspiracy dating to the Teutonic Knights and other traditions. Published during World War II, this book reflects the Allies\' perspective and need to grasp the historical roots of Germany. Black full cloth coated boards, white impressed cover and spine titles with upward pointing arrow motif, light shelf wear, rub. Deckled pages very good, clean. Bind fine, square; hinges intact. Rare near very good first edition of this monumental analysis. Contents: \"Foreword; Part One - I. The Conspiracy and Its Mirror; II The Cavalcade of the Teutonic Knights; III Prussia Comes Up in the World; IV The Fehme Murders; V The Prusso-Teutonics Approach Their Goal; VI The Last Act of the Tragi-comedy; VII Prusso-Teutonia - Alias Naziland; Part Two - VIII Prussianism and Downward Progression; IX Western Civilization and Upward Progression; X Common Foe and Common Nobility; Appendix: Prusso-Teutonia and the Problem of Post-War Germany; . The Ball Rimini; Bibliography; and, an Index.\" \"I know no way of judging the future but by the past.\" - Patrick Henry, from a speech at the Virginia Assembly, May, 1765. Features a seven-page bibliography arranged alphabetically by author, and a detailed eight-page index. 381 pages. Insured post. Author Paul Winkler suggests here that the deep history of German expansionism provided the foundational ideology for the Nazi party. He proposes that Nazism was not spontaneous, but the result of a long history of Pan-Germanism arising from entrenched elements of the national character and history. Winkler argues it was not only a reaction to World War I\'s Treaty of Versailles or the product of Adolf Hitler\'s genius. Winkler posits that secret societies and nationalist factions in Germany kept the ideology of independence alive and distinct from the broader Greco-Christian traditions of Western Europe. In the fog and promulgation of WWII, Paul Winkler posits that then contemporary Nazism had its roots in Prussian-Teutonic history. Winkler explains the origins of the Third Reich as a continuation of Teutonic logic under Prussian Junker [Jung-Herr] rule; an aristocracy dictating politics and an absolute favor of Industry. Summarized from original dust wrapper: Author Paul Winkler argues that Nazism did not entirely arise in nineteen twenties and thirties Germany, but rather that its underlying basis and ideas had their roots dating back a millennium. The book\'s title is inspired from the words of a deputy in the Bavarian Landtag who, in 1921, announced in the Parliament that the documents he held in hand evidenced a conspiracy going back a thousand years which he intended to expose. This deputy was assassinated a few days before he was scheduled to present this revelatory speech and its contents were never revealed. Winkler\'s research undoubtedly uncovers and divulges much and more of the murdered deputy\'s evidence. The contours of this hidden plan emerge and shed light on the state of Germany at the time. The secret of the \"Prussian-Teutonics,\" whose roots reach back beyond the Crusades, has often been obscured, but existed for centuries and often rose to dominance. This secretive force often led the country along divergent paths from other western European countries. Continuing from wrapper summary: Paul Winkler first came to America in 1940. His first ambition had been biology, but World War I led him to witness the zeitgeist of unrest and he preferred writing and journalism to scientific study. His chief objective was to spread an understanding of the vital problems to a wider audience.