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NAZI SS POCKET YEARBOOKS 1943 & 1944
A VERY RARE COLOR ILLUSTRATED
SS TASCHENJAHRBUCH
OR POCKET YEARBOOK FOR THE
YEAR 1943 AND ANOTHER FOR 1944
SS TASCHENJAHRBUCH
OR POCKET YEARBOOK FOR THE
YEAR 1943 AND ANOTHER FOR 1944
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The 1943 SS POCKET YEARBOOK (above) is
**SOLD**. We will be happy to ship abroad at additional cost. Please inquire. |
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The compact 3 x 5 inch, Soldatenfreund Taschenjahrbücher (Soldier’s Friend Pocket Yearbooks) for the Wehrmacht are relatively common as they were made and distributed in great quantity to the men of the Army and Luftwaffe each year during the Third Reich. Far less common are the same style books for members of the Waffen-SS.
Also called Soldatenfreund Taschenjahrbuch, Edition D was published by Adolf Spanholz Verlag of Hannover specifically for the Waffen-SS. Pictures of SS personalities adorned the inside of the front and back covers and the color section containing Nazi flags, insignia, uniforms, daggers, swords, etc. included nice sections on the SS as well as the NSKK, Hitler Youth, TeNo, Police, Army, Kriegsmarine, etc.
Certainly the best feature of the SS D Edition of the Soldatenfreund Taschenjahrbuch is the very lengthy section on the basic German laws pertaining to the SS and Waffen-SS. Those include the SS law for the protection of young girls (weibliche Jugend), the SS order regarding the last son, those pertaining to widows and orphans, the Law of Honor of the SS, the Order of the Reichsführer-SS regarding Comradeship, the grounding of the Lebensborn Society (Lebensborn eV), etc.
Another section is devoted to calendars providing space for the book’s owner to make notations of all sorts. The SS Soldatenfreund books are bound in hard covers with a cloth spine. On the covers are embossed silver runes and on the spine the date is embossed in silver.
The 1943 SS SOLDATENFREUND TASCHENJAHRBUCH contains 256 pages of black & white text, 22 pages of advertising, about 90 pages of daily calendars (four days to a page) for 1943, and 24 pages of flags, uniforms, insignia, etc. (total of about 390 pages).
The book is in excellent, unissued condition and the only flaw that we can find is a small manufacturing defect in which a 1 x 1 inch portion of two pages is torn away from the outside center edge (pages 223 and 225).
Images above and left are all from the 1943 SS Pocket Calendar.
The 1944 SS SOLDATENFREUND TASCHENJAHRBUCH contains 62 pages of black & white text, about 182 pages of daily calendars (two days to a page) for 1944, and 24 pages of flags, uniforms, insignia, etc. (total of about 270 pages).
This book also includes a page of the paratrooper style insignia of rank for Waffen-SS troops - the style worn on camouflaged uniform smocks, and a good size full-color fold-out map of the world.
Perhaps the best innovation between the 1943 and 1944 book was changing the printing from Gothic style type to a far more readable style of type like Bookman or Times.
The calendar pages of the 1944 SS Soldatenfreund book have been written on in the fashion shown in our photo on the left. The date was altered by striking it out in red to use the book in a different year. Fortunately, none of the other pages are missing or damaged in any way. Very good condition.
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The 1944 SS POCKET YEARBOOK is offered for sale
for $475.00 delivered to any address in the United States. We will be happy to ship abroad at additional cost. Please inquire. |