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In German. Aufgrund einer Buchstabenbeschränkung für diese Beschreibung müssen Sie den Text ins Deutsche übersetzen. This is a spectacularly unique book in several regards. Firstly, I can find no other such copy for sale anywhere on the Internet. It begins with the September 1951 issue of Ulmer Monatsspiegel which is numbered 1 and goes through all the way to the 9th issue which was published in June 1952. Furthermore, it was John J. McCloy's book. I purchased it from his library some years ago. McCloy was the High Commissioner of Postwar Germany and the Assistant Secretary War during World War II. And most uniquely and importantly, it is signed and inscribed to Mr. McCloy by Inge Aicher-Scholl. I could find no other of her books for sale on the Internet, of any title, that she had signed. I don't read German and the handwriting is a little bit difficult if one doesn't, but I believe she is saying 'Please don't forget Germany.' As High Commissioner of Germany, 'McCloy supported the initiative of Inge Aicher-Scholl, Otl Aicher and Max Bill to found the Ulm School of Design, considered to be the most influential design school in the world after the Bauhaus. The founders sought and received support in the USA (via Walter Gropius) and within the American High Command in Germany. McCloy saw the endeavor as Project No. 1 and supported a college and campus combination along US examples.' In 1952, the year she inscribed this book, Scholl received from McCloy a check for one million deutschmarks. As High Commissioner Postwar Germany, McCloy had the delicate responsibility of overseeing the decisions about the fates of the many Nazi criminals arrested after the war, while maintaining good relations with the Germans in order to keep them from making alliances with the Soviets, our new enemies. Nevertheless, given what happened to Ms. Aicher Scholl's loved ones, the fact of a relationship between she and John J. McCloy is certainly curious. While McCloy allowed the executions of a number of mass murderers to stand, he also commuted the sentences of others. Inge Aicher-Scholl was the daughter of Robert Scholl, mayor of Forchtenberg, and the elder sister of Hans and Sophie Scholl, who were core members of the White Rose student resistance movement in Nazi Germany, 'a student group that was highly critical of Nazi war crimes, particularly against the Jews on the eastern front. They distributed leaflets warning the German people that they might become "forever the nation hated and rejected by all mankind". Sophie and Hans were caught distributing these leaflets, tried for treason and executed by guillotine. Inge and other family members were arrested and interrogated, but later released.' After the war Inge became very involved in the peace movement and wrote a number of books about the White Rose organization. You can see the orange covers in the photos. They are nicely clean, just a few tiny dark specks. There's a slight tear on the front side of the spine. The black lettering on the spine is quite bright. The edges are in very good shape. The corners have only tiny spots of rub-through. There's also one at the bottom edge of the spine. The book is square and very solidly bound from cover to cover with nicely tight pages throughout and nicely tight covers. The covers do bow out just a little bit. The pages are in different shades and colors. There are a good number of illustrations. Twenty or so pages near the end of the book probably got bumped. They each have a small tear off their outer edge and in a handful of instances there's a small loss, none of which impacts one's reading. I saw a few other small edge losses, the paper has a bit of fragility. There's not much by way of creasing. The pages are very clean throughout. There is toning at the margins of the lighter pages (see 5th photo). There are no markings. No attachments. And with the exception of the signed inscription, no one has written their name or anything else anywhere.
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