German WWII Booklet "Schlag nach 1933 bis 1940" - Chronicle of Greater Germany

A softcover reference booklet titled "Schlag nach 1933 bis 1940 - Uebersichtliche Chronik des Werdens Grossdeutschlands" ("Look It Up 1933 to 1940 - Overview Chronicle of the Formation of Greater Germany"). The cover features a stylized map showing Germany together with annexed and incorporated territories including Austria, the Sudetenland, and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia rendered in shaded color blocks. The title appears in a Gothic-style typeface against a dark banner at the top of the cover.

Such chronicles were published as popular reference works during the National Socialist period, summarizing the territorial expansion of the German Reich through annexation and occupation in the years preceding the Second World War.

This type of chronicle was produced as a propaganda-adjacent reference tool, presenting the annexation of Austria in the 1938 Anschluss, the incorporation of the Sudetenland following the Munich Agreement of the same year, and the establishment of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in 1939 as a triumphant narrative of national consolidation under the Third Reich. Such booklets were aimed at a general readership, framing the dismantling of Czechoslovakia and the expansion of German borders as milestones in the creation of a "Greater Germany" under Adolf Hitler's leadership, in the immediate run-up to the outbreak of war in September 1939. They served both an educational and ideological function, embedding territorial aggression within a chronological, seemingly factual format for domestic consumption.