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Hunting and fishing and allied sports such as falconry have long been favorite pastimes of landowners and the wealthy in Germany and it continued to be popular among an elite group during the Third Reich of Adolf Hitler. Probably the best magazine available to sportsmen was the 9 x 12 inch, heavily illustrated twice-monthly Deutsches Waidwerk (German Forest Work) published by Jagdverlag Richter & Springer of Wien, Germany.

Each issue covered all that was new in the hunting world and the Deutsche Jägerschaft (DJ or German Hunting Association). The latest laws, permits, restrictions for hunters, results of DJ shooting competitions all over Greater Germany, deaths of important Nazi Hunting Association members, news about forest fires and floods all over Greater Germany, hunting dogs, threatened animal species, research results from the Hand Gun Testing Facility in Berlin-Wannsee, tips for cooking venison for housewives, WHW Charity Collections by the Deutsche Jägerschaft, etc.

The magazine also provided advertising that led the reader to sources for things like swords and daggers, shotguns, rifles, pistols, gun powder, ammunition, purebred dogs, mountain shoes, binoculars, hunting uniforms, deer stands, traps, cigars, beer, jewelry (made from antlers), furs, metal hunting signs, places to stay, taxidermists, canning supplies, and other hunting equipment.

The two issues in this lot are dated 11 August 1939 and 3 November 1939 with a total of 56 heavily illustrated pages. Articles include mountain goat hunting, normal and abnormal antlers, hunting dogs, the Hubertus Day Hunt, hunting hares in difficult terrain, hunting exhibition displays, etc. The November 1939 issue also contains the announcement of the Heldentod on the battlefield in Poland of two members of the DJ.

Advertisers include Waffenfabrik Carl Walther, RWS, DWM, Gösser Bier, Leitz, Rodenstock and other binocular companies, the NSV, Steyr, Mauser, Eduard Kettner and Turczynski hunting clothes, animal trap manufacturers, Hansaplast, Nivea, etc.

These 83 year old used issues of Deutsches Waidwerk are complete and in very good readable condition. No loose pages, no odor.