Germanische Leithefte Issue 3 1943

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The 6-1/2 x 9 inch SS-Leitheft (“SS-lead-booklet”) was a Nazi periodical from 1934 to November of 1944. This “SS-Leadership magazine”, as it is often called, was published in German in Berlin from 1934 onward, and in the beginning mostly circulated among professional officers in the SS. The publisher was the SS-Hauptamt, the main office of the Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, and the printing was done by M. Müller and Sohn in Berlin. When war came, with the need for new recruits, the SS-Leitheft was also published at the Germanische Leitstelle in Oslo, Norway; Copenhagen, Denmark; Brussels, Belgium; and den Haag, the Netherlands; that is to say in Norwegian, Danish, Flemish and Dutch. There was even an Estonian edition. The periodical's spiritual leader was Dr. Franz Riedweg, a Swiss physician who had joined the SS and became the head of Germanic Volunteer recruiting, a division of the Berlin Main SS-Office. Scarce and in very good condition. This copy shows use and all the staples are intact.