Item #6720 The Brown Network: The Activities of the Nazis in Foreign Countries. World Committee for the Victims of German Fascism] [Clement Greenberg.
The Brown Network: The Activities of the Nazis in Foreign Countries
The Brown Network: The Activities of the Nazis in Foreign Countries
The Brown Network: The Activities of the Nazis in Foreign Countries
The Brown Network: The Activities of the Nazis in Foreign Countries
The Brown Network: The Activities of the Nazis in Foreign Countries

The Brown Network: The Activities of the Nazis in Foreign Countries

New York: Knight Publications, Inc., 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Tall 8vo. Pp. 309. Translated by Clement Greenberg. Illustrated with document facsimiles. Introduction by William Frances Hare, Earl of Listowel. Tan cloth, titles stamped in brown on the cover and spine, photo illustrated endpapers, index. Covers moderately bowed, spine sunned, head edge dust soiled. Leaves crisp and binding tight. Very Good-. Item #6720

Translation of Das braune Netz first published in Paris in 1935. By the author(s) of The Brown Book of the Hitler Terror. A lengthy appendix lists Nazi agents in foreign countries and their roles. In the US, for instance, E. N. Sanctuary is listed as "Associate of Haegele and a leading distributor of anti-Semitic literature. He operates from an office at 156 Fifth Avenue, NYC," or, Rheinhold Walter, "Was figurehead leader of Nazi organization in the United States; actually a dummy for the real leader, Fritz Gissib," or, Kitty Aschenbrenner, "Disguised as a nurse she was for a long time active as a Nazi agent in this country. She was finally exposed and deported."

An early print appearance by the future art critic Clement Greenberg, who became known for championing the Color Field artists and other critical writing, He first gained notice with his powerful essay, The Avant Garde and Kitsch, published in Partisan Review 1939.

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