THE NEW INQUISITION By KONRAD HEIDEN 1939 SC 1st Ed Hendrik Willem Van Loom WW2

THE NEW INQUISITION  By KONRAD HEIDEN  1939  Softcover  1st Edition  Intro (& Cover Illustration?) by Hendrik Willem Van Loon   Published jointly by Modern Age Books, Inc. and Alliance Book Corporation in New York, 1939    “The New Inquisition” by Konrad Heiden is a first American edition, first softcover printing, published in 1939. This is Heiden’s extremely rare account of his views of the Hitler regime and the events beginning on the night of Nov. 9, 1938, known thereafter as the Night of the Hatchets or the Night of Broken Glass, and what they portended for the future of Jews in Germany. Within 24 hours damage to Jewish businesses and property would exceed 1.5 billion marks and scores of thousands of people would be thrown into concentration camps. Heiden’s account was published in this 1939 edition barely one year after the Night of Broken Glass. The book appeared in New York as the Battle of Britain was raging and the United States was only starting to rouse from its isolati