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As World War II ground on and German casualties mounted, it became clear to officials in the Nazi government that Landsers in the field needed all the inspiration they could get to go on fighting. Using a similar strategy to that found in the SS booklet Sieg der Waffen - Sieg des Kindes (Victory of Weapons - Victory of the Children), Wofür Kämpfen Wir? explains in very direct terms who German soldiers were fighting and why. Germany certainly wasn’t the only country that needed to “sell” the concept of battling on year after year. In America a series of movies was actually marketed under the umbrella title “Why Do We Fight?”.
Wofür Kämpfen Wir? is a 6-1/2 x 9 inch, 144 page, very, very heavily illustrated soft cover book published the Personnel Office of the German Army in January 1944 for Officers of the Wehrmacht at the direction of Adolf Hitler himself. It begins with a reprint of a 3-page directive on stationary of Der Führer dated Hauptquartier, den 8. Januar 1944.
The book explains how the huge country of Germany as it was constituted in the year 1648 was gradually reduced by foreign armies to a small, broken, financially defunct and powerless land in 1918. A 1943 map shows Germany in control of lands from the Arctic Circle to Africa and from the tip of Spain well into Russia.
Separated into chapters about the necessity for the battle Germany was waging, chapter 1 is Judentum or Jewry.
Other chapters are Bolshevism, England, America, and Development and Goals. Each chapter is very heavily anti-Jewish with specific lessons on the migrations of Jews since the beginning of time and a full-page map showing how the Allies intended to distribute German lands among Germany’s neighbors at the end of the war.
Other chapters are Bolshevism, England, America, and Development and Goals. Each chapter is very heavily anti-Jewish with specific lessons on the migrations of Jews since the beginning of time and a full-page map showing how the Allies intended to distribute German lands among Germany’s neighbors at the end of the war.
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Since the book was printed in the very latter part of World War II, it was printed on the paper that was available. The result is that most examples of Wofür Kämpfen Wir? found today are in very, very poor condition.
This rare 74 year old example is complete with the (frequently missing) Adolf Hitler portait in the back, and in very good condition with the name of an SS-Oberstabarzt in pencil on the cover. His name is also at the top of the title page. A previous owner laminated the cover to preserve it, so it is in very nice condition compared to other 1944 examples of Wofür Kämpfen Wir?
This rare 74 year old example is complete with the (frequently missing) Adolf Hitler portait in the back, and in very good condition with the name of an SS-Oberstabarzt in pencil on the cover. His name is also at the top of the title page. A previous owner laminated the cover to preserve it, so it is in very nice condition compared to other 1944 examples of Wofür Kämpfen Wir?
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WHY DO WE FIGHT? ANTI-AMERICAN, ANTI-JEWISH NAZI BOOK 1944
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