The Nazi Membership Book in 1943

Background: These are pictures and captions from a paperbound book given to members of the Nazi Party in 1943. Here we have the cover and four interior illustrations. Click for larger images.

The source: Hauptkulturamt in der Reichspropagandaleitung der NSDAP, Ich kämpfe (Munich: Zentralverlag der NSDAP., 1943).

I Fight: A Book for Members of the Nazi Party

Cover of the book Ich kämpfe, with a Nazi eagle and text. — The cover

Page with a portrait of Adolf Hitler. — The facing poem by Baldur von Schirach reads:

The greatest thing about him is that
He is not only our Führer and hero,
Rather it is he himself: frank, strong, and simple;
The roots of our world are in him,
His soul reaches to the stars,
Yet he remains a person, just like you and me.

Memorial at the Hofbräuhaus in Munich. — This memorial at the Hofbräuhaus in Munich commemorated the announcement of the Nazi Party platform (the 25 Points) in 1920.

Memorial at the Feldherrnhalle in Munich. — The memorial at the Feldherrnhalle in Munich, where the police opened fire on Hitler’s putschists in 1923.

Two Honor Temples in Munich. — The two “Honor Temples” in Munich, where the sixteen who died in the 1923 putsch were buried after 1935.