German Book "Haendler und Soldaten" by Walter Frank

A red cloth-bound hardcover book titled "Haendler und Soldaten" ("Merchants and Soldiers") by Walter Frank, with gilt lettering to the spine and front board. The title page bears the subtitle "Frankreich und die Judenfrage in der 'Affaere Dreyfus'" ("France and the Jewish Question in the 'Dreyfus Affair'"), identifying it as a single ("einmalige") edition published by Deutsche Hausbuecherei, Hamburg.

The work addresses the Dreyfus Affair in France through the ideological lens of Third Reich-era historical publishing, part of a genre of politically directed popular history produced for the German home library market of the period.

Walter Frank was a prominent Nazi-era historian who headed the Reichsinstitut fuer Geschichte des neuen Deutschlands, an institution established in 1935 to produce historical scholarship aligned with National Socialist ideology, with particular emphasis on antisemitic reinterpretations of European history. His treatment of the Dreyfus Affair, the 1894 conviction of French Jewish army officer Alfred Dreyfus on false charges of treason, recast the episode as evidence for Nazi claims about Jewish influence in European society. Deutsche Hausbuecherei was a Hamburg-based book club distributing ideologically approved literature to German households during the Third Reich, and such single-edition volumes formed part of the regime's broader effort to popularise antisemitic historical narratives among general readers.