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This superb, autographed SS-Totenkopf Division book in France is offered for sale for $675.00 delivered by Media Mail in the continental USA.   USM book #349

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This is as nice an example of the rare SS photographic combat book DAMALS as we have ever seen. It is fresh, clean and in excellent condition and it even comes with its original dust jacket. The dust jacket is a little beat-up and scotch taped, but the only scotch tape on the book itself is along the spine.

The book bears a dedication and pen & ink signature of SS-Standartenführer Karl Demme on the front fly-leaf along with the impression of the stamp of the Erganzungsamt der Waffen-SS • Erg.-Stelle Spree (III) • [the Waffen-SS Replacement Office] in Berlin, where he worked in 1943.

Demme was an old member of the Freikorps Freiwilligen Landesjägerkorps after World War I. Other members of the same unit include Reinhard Heydrich, Freiherr von Eberstein, Siegfried Taubert, Max Jüttner and many World War II Nazi notables.

Karl Demme was born 25 September 1894. His Nazi Party number is 1 038 060, his SS number is 228 339, and he was an Officer at Buchenwald Concentration Camp in 1939 and 1940. He commanded SS Infantry Regiment 10 in SS Totenkopf Division in the invasion of France.

DAMALS (Back Then) is a 8-1/4 x 11-1/8 inch, 120 page very, very heavily illustrated hard cover remembrance book of "the Great Days of the SS-Totenkopf Division Battling through France in 1940" by SS War Correspondents Ege, Bauer and Bonda as printed by Christian Belser in Stuttgart for the SS Führungshauptamt in Berlin in 1941. It is superb SS photographic material of the very finest kind.

Together with a very brief one-page introduction and excellent photo captions, the photos in this book tell the story of the short but tough campaign which reduced the glorious French Armed Forces to en masse surrender in a few days time. Very sharp mostly full-page photographs show SS General "Papa" Eicke, columns of SS vehicles, SS troops and officers deploying to the field, marching through French towns, chatting with German Panzer troops, resting en route, directing traffic, shelling French positions, firing machine guns, crossing streams in rubber boats, firing mortars, looking at dead British troops, erecting communications systems, etc.

Other photos show SS-Totenkopf Division wounded, graves of the dead, building bridges, cooks preparing meals for the troops, knocked-out French tanks, armored assaults, surrendering French and British troops, a ceremony awarding medals to the victorious SS troops, etc.

DAMALS is a book that belongs in the library of every historian of the period as well as those who collect the helmets, uniforms, weapons and fieldfear of the Waffen-SS.

An extremely rare autographed book in very fine condition.