BACKGROUND: One of the NSDAP’s most ambitious, and successful, projects was the elimination of the overwhelming unemployment suffered in Germany following WWI. To achieve this goal a national labor registration law was enacted on February 26TH 1935, and the Arbeitsbuch, (Employment Book), was instituted, as a record of an individuals employment history. With the occupation of assorted European countries and the influx of foreign non-German nationals into Germany the Germans introduced a specific, Arbeitsbuch für Ausländer, (Employment Book for Foreigners), in 1943.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: A roughly, 5 3/4" x 4 1/8", thirty-eight page book, with a mid-weight, teal green card stock cover with a grey printed, NSDAP style national eagle with out-stretched wings and Latin script, "Deutsches Reich Arbeitsbuch für Ausländer", (German National Employment Book for Foreigners), to the obverse. The second interior page has a dual inkstamped photo of the female recipient stapled in place. The book has handwritten entries and a stamp that indicate it was issued on, "19. Juni 1944", to a Ukrainian national by the, "Arbeitsamt", (Employment Office). Various entries. Scarce.

GRADE ****                             PRICE $105.00