Chess in the Third Reich - Taylor KingstonPaperback (8. 5 x 11), 291 pages, 2024 McFarland Publishing 95 photos, notes, bibliography, index The USSR is famous as the first totalitarian state to promote chess. Less well known is that Nazi Germany was the second. The Third Reich gave chess a tremendous financial and propaganda boost in hopes of making Germany a dominant chess power. Yet this aspect of the Nazi era has received scant attention in later German literature, and even less in