Soldier Faith Solider Honor by Matthes Ziegler

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Soldier Faith Solider Honor by Matthes Ziegler

Translated from the Third Reich original Soldatenglaube Soldatenehre by Matthes Ziegler, which was published in 1939 in Berlin by the Nordland-Verlag. The subtitle “A German Breviary for Hitler-Soldiers” [“Ein deutsches Brevier für Hitler-Soldaten”] appeared on the original’s title page, but not on its front cover. This short work includes the soldier’s oaths for both the Wehrmacht and the Schutzstaffel, short chapters entitled “Your Folk”, “The Reich”, “Our Führer”, “The Flag Oath” and “The Duties of the German Soldier”, quotations from Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, Alfred Rosenberg, Rudolf Hess and Hermann Göring, and poems by Heinrich Spitta, Lothar Stengel von Rutkowski, Eberhard Wolfgang Möller, Baldur von Schirach, Hans Baumann and Erybert Menzel.

Paperback, 44 pp