The case for Germany a study of modern Germany, by A.P. Laurie. With a preface by Admiral Sir Barry Domvile (Still Image)

The case for Germany a study of modern Germany, by A.P. Laurie. With a preface by Admiral Sir Barry Domvile

Laurie, A. P. (Arthur Pillans), 1861-1949

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The author, Arthur Pillans Laurie (1861-1949) was a Scottish chemist who pioneered the scientific analysis of paintings.
The pre-Raphaelite painter William Holman Hunt interested Laurie in the chemistry of paint and the scientific analysis of paintings. Laurie pioneered the use of chemical analysis to discover the composition of artworks, and so to show their true age and origins. He was the first to use infra-red photography to reveal deeper layers of paint. Through infra-red work, he found the date of a Rembrandt self-portrait where the date painted by the artist had later been covered up.

While he wrote many books on the techical aspects of painting, this work is especially notorious.  A pro-Nazi, anti-semitic work which praises Hitler. The book commences with praising Hitler as a painter and then expounds National Socialism. He continues with a revisionist defence of Nazism and denigrating Jewish people and socialism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Pillans_Laurie

First edition, June 1939. Second edition, July 1939.

National socialism

Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945

Europe -- Politics and government -- 1918-1945

Germany -- Foreign relations -- 1933-1945

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DD253 .L35 1939a

Berlin, Internationaler verlag, 1939

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