Joseph Goebbels - Thirty Articles of War for the German People - publication for German soldiers - The copy of war ...

Joseph Goebbels - Thirty Articles of War for the German People - publication for German soldiers - The copy of war criminal Jacob Reimer

DREISSIG KRIEGSARTIKEL FUR DAS DEUTSCHE VOLK - "Thirty articles of war for the German people" - a pocket booklet Published by the NSDAP (Nazi Party) containing words of encouragement for the German soldiers, which was issued by the Nazi Minister of Propaganda Dr. Joseph Goebbels, towards Germany's defeat in World War II. Munich - Berlin, 1943. German. Copy of the Nazi war criminal Soviet - Jacob Reimer, with his signature on the title page.

"These are the articles of war for the German people in the greatest fateful struggle in our history." In the booklet, there are 30 short sections that were drafted by the Nazi Minister of Propaganda, Josef Goebbels, calling on the German soldiers not to surrender in the war at any cost, and to fight to the last of their strength. The first section opens: "Everything is possible in this war, except for the fact that we must ever surrender and fall before the power of the enemy. Whoever speaks like this, or even thinks like this, commits a cowardly betrayal of his people's right to life, and must be disgracefully expelled from the fighting German community... ". In section 28, the possibility of failure in the war appears for the German people, as the worst option for generations: "If we fail, our name will be cursed for hundreds of years by future generations, and they will have to bear the terrible burden of our failure, " and ends with uncompromising loyalty to Fuhrer: "Remember that you are German! Believe in total loyalty And unshakable in the Führer and in victory...". The various sections were designated for the German soldiers in the midst of the World War after the Nazis had already suffered defeat on several fronts. On the page corresponding to the title page Ex-Libris with a swastika.

Jacob Reimer [1918-2005]. Born in Ukraine. In 1940 Reimer was drafted into the Soviet army. When Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, Reimer was involved in the fighting and was captured by German forces on July 6. Two months later, due to his ethnic German heritage and language skills, he was drafted into Trawniki concentration camp for training as a camp guard. During his service as a camp guard, Reimer participated in the liquidation of Jewish ghettos in Poland, in addition to administrative and office duties. On one occasion, Reimer fired a shot into a pit full of corpses in front of one living civilian, which would later turn out to be a key piece of evidence in the trials held against him in the US. In 1944 he was awarded the War Merit for his service, and in 1945 he was promoted to the top guard of the SS. In 1944, Reimer received German citizenship after Adolf Hitler made all ethnic German military and police personnel eligible for German citizenship.

After the war, as part of his efforts to hide, in 1952 Reimer applied for a visa to the United States, and for years he was considered a United States citizen for all intents and purposes. During his time in the US he worked as a potato snack seller and a retired restaurant manager who lived and resided for years in the city of Brooklyn, New York, without arousing any suspicion of his dubious past. In 1980 Reimer was arrested and first questioned by the US authorities in connection with the John Damianuk case, but little progress was made towards His identification was achieved during this initial investigation. The Office of Special Investigations of the United States Department of Justice worked for decades to prosecute Reimer and deny him his American citizenship, but he eventually died on American soil in 2005, before being deported to Germany. About his story the book was written: " Citizen 865: The Hunt for Hitler's Hidden Soldiers in America" ​​by Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Debbie Zanziffer. For more details about Jacob Reimer's story and the many years he managed to hide in the United States see here.

See also Dynasty auction 17 item 42.

16 p. 15 cm. Stains on the back of the cover. Good condition.