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The book contains 18 full-page and half-page full-color pictures of subjects ranging from a striking Adolf Hitler portrait to the Berghof, the Nazi Party Braunes Haus and Honor Temples in Munich, Hitler’s cell in Landsberg Prison, the shiny Hitler plaque in the Hofbrauhaus in Munich, and the Reichsautobahn to Braunau am Inn.

Thirty-one black & white pictures deal with subjects such as the Reichschancellery in Berlin, Horst Wessel, Nazi Ordensburgen, Nazi Party Day Grounds in Nuremberg, the Wehrmacht, an SS man, the Hitler Youth, etc.

During the latter half of the Third Reich in Germany each person who joined the Nazi Party was presented with a memento - a book - in remembrance of the occasion. That book was Ich Kämpfe or “I Fight”. A very special edition of the book was printed on high quality paper with special color content for distribution to Adolf Hitler’s “Old Guard” on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Nazi assumption of power in Germany on 20 January 1943.

Ich Kämpfe is an 8-1/2 x 9-1/2 inch, 100 page, very heavily illustrated, softcover book published by the Central Publishing House of the NSDAP, Franz Eher Nachfolger in München (Munich) for the Hauptkulturamt of the Reichspropagandaleitung of the Nazi Party. Hermann Liese, Head Editor at the Hauptkulturamt der Reichspropagandaleitung was responsible for the content.

Ich Kämpfe was considered such a dangerous book by the Allies at the end of World War II, that denazification commissions sought out and destroyed every example they could find on sight. The result of that effort is that original examples are extremely rare today, especially the Old Guard color editions.

The text of Ich Kämpfe was written by leaders of the various paramilitary sections of the Nazi Party as a testament to the success of their Movement. There are sections by Dr. Joseph Goebbels, Reichsleiters Phillip Bouhler, Alfred Rosenberg, Dr. Robert Ley, Professor Dr. Groß, Arthur Axmann, etc. Subjects covered include the SS, the SA, NSFK, NSF, NSKK, Promise of Loyalty to the Führer, Program of the NSDAP, the German Concept of Freedom, the National Socialist Revolution, Honor List of the Martyrs of the Movement, Our Will, the Responsibilities of Political Leaders, the National Socialist Way of Life, the Responsibility of Party Members, Dates in the History of the NSDAP, etc., etc.

This particular original Third Reich color example of Ich Kämpfe from 1943 has a beautiful embossed brown and cream cover. It is in very nice condition, printed on much better paper than earlier editions of Ich Kämpfe. It has a tight spine and no odor.

The front end paper (the special “Old Guard” page) was removed from this rare original 79 year old Nazi book.