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ONE OF THE RAREST THIRD REICH HEINRICH HOFFMANN PHOTO BOOKS - PRODUCED FOR THE WORLD FAMOUS JUNKERS AIRPLANE COMPANY

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Wir Arbeiten Bei Junkers (We Work at Junkers) is an especially rare Heinrich Hoffmann photo book produced for Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerke AG, the famous airplane manufacturer in the city of Dessau, Germany in 1943. This is the German language edition (other editions were published for Junkers’ many foreign workers with the text in German-Russian and Dutch-French) with 110 heavily illustrated pages. The subtitle translates as “A Photo Report of Practical Socialism at a German Industrial Company in the Fight for a New Europe.”

Wir Arbeiten Bei Junkers starts with 16 pages of text about the enormous positive changes in Hitler’s Germany since 1933. Changes in German society and its social structure, changed ideas about community, improved living and working conditions for all men and women in Nazi Germany. Social and welfare programs, healthcare, leisure and sport possibilities and job opportunities for all have created a true Volksgemeinschaft - a National Community.

According to this book, everybody working at Junkers has been a contributor in the great company tradition, and in wartime the contribution is even more important as the destiny of Germany and peace on the European continent is at stake! “Together and For Each Other! is how work is done at Junkers, co-creators and pioneers in a new, bigger era!”

Above, a photo of a female worker from the East being instructed by a Flemish Junkers employee. Left the Junkers company paper for Flemish employees and don't miss the portrait of Nazi Air Minister Hermann Göring on the bookcase in the photo above that.

This rare 7-½ x 10-¼ inch Third Reich book was published for Junkers in 1943 by Heinrich Hoffmann Verlag of Munich, and thus its extreme rarity. The 80+ year old original dust jacket was laminated by a previous owner to preserve it. The book is complete and in nice used condition, has no writing it and no odor. The front fly leaf has a small 2 x 2-¼ inch Ex-Libris bookmark.

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Above, several Junkers employees receiving Kriegsverdienstkreuz for their contributions to the war effort.

Below, new Junkers employees from Belgium receiving instructions.

The Junkers company, founded by “world-renowned Hugo Junkers”, was part of that national change. Research, new inventions, increased production due to reliable, well-trained and well-cared for employees was one of the reasons Junkers was awarded the prestigious NS-Musterbetrieb (Model Nazi Enterprise) distinction in 1938.

Wir Arbeiten Bei Junkers of course, has pictures of airplanes and airplane engines, and many of the fine photos focus on clean modern offices and research departments, new female employees being welcomed and instructed, happy and healthy Junkers employees during a company organized bus tour, foreign laborers from France, Belgium and the formerly Soviet East and the multi-lingual company announcement boards for them, special health precautions for employees working in the paint and varnish department, the company kitchen where healthy meals were prepared for employees, Junkers apprentices, ....

.... employees swimming and under sun lamps (“illness prevention”), childcare facilities for Junkers employees, free standing homes for Junkers workers, libraries which included foreign language books, newspapers and magazines for non-German laborers, DAF educational courses, music and theater performances, Junkers employees collecting Christmas gifts for Wehrmacht soldiers at the front, Junkers employees receiving the Kriegsverdienstkreuz for their contributions to the war effort, etc. The last photo on page 110 shows a Junkers mechanic finishing his work a Junkers airplane, “For Victory and the New Europe!”

Left, Luftwaffe pilot Hauptmann Werner Baumbach (one of the first pilots to fly the Junkers Ju 88 bomber) wearing his Nazi Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords, during a visit to the Junkers factory where his new airplane was being built.