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In it she explains that the book shows the daily life of young German girls during their year of Arbeitsdienstpflicht, thereby making it a lasting memory for all German girls who did their share for the Fatherland. Opposite the foreword is a map of Saxony showing the different RAD Bezirke or regions in the state of Sachsen.
This nice original First Edition of Wir Arbeitsmaiden, a photo book by Gustav von Estorff about the Arbeitsdienstpflicht or obligatory labor service for young girls in Nazi Germany. The 7-½ x 10-½ inch, 64-page softcover Bildbericht was published by Zeitgeschichte-Verlag of Berlin in 1940.
The foreword is by Käthe Schiele who was a Department Leader in the Reichsarbeitsdienst (RAD or Nazi State Labor Service) in Bezirk VII (Dresden) in Saxony.
The clear, full- and half-page black & white photographs in Wir Arbeitsmaiden show young women at work, helping farmers during the harvest and mothers with children whose husbands were away at the front, in RAD barracks and on trains, in work clothes and wearing their RAD uniforms, doing laundry and washing windows, receiving political education by a female Reichsarbeitsdienst leader, hiking, dancing and playing sports, etc.
There are even photos taken during the Nazi Party Days in Nuremberg, showing Adolf Hitler and Reichsarbeitsführer Konstantin Hierl greeting leaders of the Arbeitsdienst für die weibliche Jugend as well as the raising of the RAD flag during a massive Reichsarbeitsdienst gathering at the Zeppelinfeld.
The last page has a synopsis of the Nazi Labor Service - when it was founded, its purpose, number of people who served, leadership and education.
This nice Second Edition (11-30,000) Third Reich photo book Wir Arbeitsmaiden is complete and in nice used condition. The original 80+ year old dust jacket has scotch tape along the top and bottom edges. No odor.
This 1940 RAD photo book Wir Arbeitsmaiden is
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WIR ARBEITSMAIDEN - NAZI PHOTO BOOK COVERING OBLIGATORY
LABOR SERVICE FOR YOUNG GERMAN GIRLS
A 1940 PHOTO BOOK HIGHLIGHTING THE FEMALE LABOR SERVICE IN NAZI GERMANY