This Nazi OKW promotional booklet for the Luftwaffe is for sale
for $75.00 delivered by Media Mail in the continental USA.
USM book #580
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Freiwillige vor! (Volunteers Ahead!) is a heavily illustrated 4-3/4 x 7-1/2 inch, 96 page publication published by the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW) in 1943 to interest young German men to join the Luftwaffe.
Subtitled Hinein in die Luftwaffe! (Enter the Luftwaffe!) this practical promotional book highlights the versatility and many advantages to serving in the Nazi Air Force. It explains the possibilities for a 12 year career in the Luftwaffe and the three main directions the Luftwaffe has to offer: fliers, technical personnel and general personnel.
We have sold 1942 examples of Freiwillige vor! in the past, but this is a 1943 edition with completely different photo content. It has great photos of Flak artillery in the field, Nazi pilot training including shooting practice, Fallschirmjaeger on the island of Crete, cholera vaccinations in the field in the East, Nazi searchlights manned by Luftwaffe personnel, Luftwaffe medical personnel at work in a LW-Lazarett in Sicily, Luftwaffe Funker in the field and aboard airplanes, etc.
The chapters cover the qualifications, training and demands of aviators and supporting ground troops, Flak troops, communication troops, paratroopers, pay for different branches in the Luftwaffe, etc. |
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After the end of World War II this hardbound example of Freiwillige vor! ended up in the library of the Office of Military Government (OMGUS) in Berlin. Their library number 1911 is written on the original front cover of the book in pencil and also on a label on the green linen spine.
Complete, nice used condition, no odor.
Freiwillige vor! Hinein in die Luftwaffe! is number 15 in the OKW book series Dienst bei den Waffen. The heavily illustrated 1943 book came out as a softcover book during the Third Reich but this example was bound completely in hard covers (including the front cover) by the Volksbücherei of the city of Berlin-Schöneberg. A previous owner added the name of the author, Oberstleutnant Hermann Adler, to the title page.
1943 NAZI OKW PUBLICATION TO RECRUIT LUFTWAFFE VOLUNTEERS
HEAVILY ILLUSTRATED 1943 OKW PUBLICATION TO INTEREST YOUNG GERMANS TO JOIN THE LUFTWAFFE
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