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The Reichsgesetzblatt was the official illustrated publication containing announcements of new laws and amendments of existing laws in Adolf Hitler’s National Socialist Germany, as published by the Reichsministerium des Innern (Interior Ministry) and printed by the Reichsverlagsamt in Berlin. The huge annual or semi-annual publications contained laws and by-laws, ordinances, Hitler decrees, treaties, budgets, amendments to existing laws, and so on. The minutia in these books is incredible! During the Third Reich the Reichsgesetzblatt was published in two editions, Teil 1 and Teil 2, with Part 2 containing international agreements, traffic laws (railroad, shipping), budgets, parliamentary matters, financial matters of the Reichsbank, and Part 1 all other matters. The last edition of the Reichsgesetzblatt was published in early April 1945. The Reichsgesetzblatt is invaluable to anyone involved in research regarding the Third Reich in general, Third Reich law, and the process by which proposed laws became law in Nazi Germany and territories incorporated or occupied by German Armed Forces.

The hardbound book offered for sale on this USMBOOKS web page is a rare original example of the Reichsgesetzblatt containing laws and by-laws, ordinances, Hitler decrees, treaties, budgets, amendments to existing laws, etc. for the year 1943. The huge 8-1/2 x 11-5/8 inch 730+ page, nearly 4 pound hardbound book has gold blocking on the black spine and is in very nice condition.

This 1-1/2 inch thick edition of the Reichsgesetzblatt Teil 1 has new laws and ordinances about water rights, agriculture and hunting, treason, press administration, adjustment of the law regarding disappearance, date and time of death, voting during parliamentary elections, changes to aviation law, the freeing up of labor for the war effort, expansion of laws for the protection of marriage, family and motherhood, budget adjustments, provisions for children of members of the Wehrmacht serving in the East, changes to the laws pertaining to renting out private garages, additions to hiking insurance laws, short-term service in the Luftwaffe and Army, decrease of vacation time and leave for civil servants, the stock exchange during wartime, changes to the law of Wehrmacht land use, wartime criminal law, expansion of laws pertaining to the use of foreign laborers from the east, pest control using highly poisonous materials, limitations on membership gatherings, revocation of German citizenship, German citizenship for legal and illegal children of citizens, German citizenship for foreign spouses, the Arbeitsbuch for foreign laborers, personal property damage due to war in Luxembourg and Alsace-Lorraine, moving costs for civil servants, housing for bombed-out civilians, limiting energy use, laws pertaining to the Demjanskschild and Kubanschild, changes to the anesthesia ordinances for doctors, monetary maintenance claims of Danish children fathered by German soldiers, war damage in the Generalgouvernement, war damage to rental property, additions and changes to air raid protection laws, restriction for the display of flags during wartime, trade publicity restrictions during wartime, changes to the existing beer tax laws, German Youth and the war effort, criminal law relating to young offenders, as well as the price regulation of shoes and shoe sole material, yarn, chicken and duck eggs, milk, fat, manure and seeds, vegetables and different kinds of timber.

Also included are new police ordinances regarding the prevention of brucellosis, buying and selling tricresylphosphate, and border security, as well as Führer decrees about the loss of medals and commendations, Heldengedenktag 1943, acquiring German citizenship through service in the Wehrmacht, Waffen-SS, Police or Organisation Todt, staffing the Armed Forces Court, social services for former members of the Police, SS, SD and their surviving dependents (right), clemency, the official appointment of a State Minister for Bohemia and Moravia, public health and sanitation, rebuilding of cities damaged by air-raids, the rights of the family owned Friedrich Krupp company, as well as building projects in Wien and Bochum.

During 1943 many German laws and ordinances were continued to be introduced in the incorporated territories in the East including social security and accident insurance for laborers, the protection of the National Symbol (eagle and swastika), trade and customs formalities, railway, penal code, taxes, passport regulations, etc.

The book has an extensive Index of abbreviations and laws in the back and corrections on page 20. A previous owner added some pencil annotations throughout this 78 year old war-time Third Reich law book and crossed out a few paragraphs apparently as they became obsolete. This original Reichsgesetzblatt Teil 1 1943 is in very nice used condition with a tight spine, and has no offensive odor.

There are black & white examples of new military and civilian application forms, tables showing toll tariffs for seeds, tables for wood prices, salary and taxes, and even a color illustration of the proposed measurements for emergency phone booths for the NSKK and other emergency services.

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