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This is an original softcover Third Reich example of Das Reich als Aufgabe, a propaganda publication by the Hauptschulungsamt der NSDAP, the Main Education Office of the Nazi Party in Berlin.

Author Friedrich Schmidt, originally a teacher, was an early Nazi Party member (number 4864!) and a member of the SS (number 276.600) and by 1939 he was a SS-Brigadeführer. He was Deputy Gauleiter of Lodz in Poland in 1939, then became SS District Chief of Lublin until February 1940 when he returned to Germany and was promoted to Hauptbefehlsleiter der NSDAP (Main Command Leader, a very high Nazi paramilitary rank, right below Gauleiter and Reichsleiter). In February 1942 he fought at the front in the Waffen-SS and in 1944 he became an American POW in France.

Author Schmidt claimed that "Providence gave us the possibility to create the Third Reich" and that German citizens should consider it a responsibility and a duty to maintain the new Nation.

The title of this book, Das Reich als Aufgabe, translates as "The Nation as a Duty" and chapters touch on continuing the struggle of the Nazi Movement during the war, countering the foreign argument that Adolf Hitler and National Socialism are responsible for war and the conflict between European nations, the responsibility of every German citizen to continue advancing the policies of the Nazi Party in war-time (Don’t be silent! Don’t stand back! No!), the importance of Germany as the center of Europe, willingness to sacrifice, German culture and legacy, the birth of the new Germany after the Treaty of Versailles, German plans for southeastern Europe, the German right to advance its leadership all over Europe, etc.

The author ends by stating that the Reich of Adolf Hitler is a happy unity of citizens and space, bound by corresponding ideas and goals, coming from the same historical foundation and principles embraced by the inner spirit of the German people.

This 5-3/4 x 8-5/8 inch, 32 page softcover Nazi propaganda publication is complete and in very good little-used condition. It has no publication date but was printed during the early stages of World War II. Tight binding, no writing, no odor.