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1935 NAZI BOOK FOR TEENAGERS ABOUT THE FAD or VOLUNTEER LABOR SERVICE

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This is a Third Reich book by Günther Grell for teenage German boys. Wir ziehen Deiche am Meeresstrand translates as “We Build Dikes at the Seashore” and it is sub-titled “The Story of Labor Comrades”.

It is the story of men at a Freiwillige Arbeitsdienst (FAD) Lager or Nazi Volunteer Labor Service Camp on the North Sea shore. The story shows how, while building dikes to stop the sea, an exemplary comradeship and sense of national community grows. A joyful time while working with friends, creating happiness and pride. Cheerful and serious sequences are mixed, giving the reader a taste of the work and the spirit of the FAD, or Volunteer Labor Service

With the book, the buyer will receive a rare two-sided, 2-7/8 x 7-1/4 inch publisher’s promo leaflet for Wir ziehen Deiche am Meeresstrand and there is also a six-panel youth book order form for Liebe Jungen und Mädel which signs off with the Nazi salutation, Mit deutschem Gruß! These two pieces of Third Reich ephemera are also in pristine condition.

Interspersed in the text of the 68 page hardcover book there are eight illustrations by Werner Chomton who also designed the striking cover illustration. The 5-¾ x 8 inch hardcover book was published by Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft in 1935 and this is a Second Edition. It looks unread!