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AUCTION 31: ANTIQUE ARMS, ARMOR AND DECORATIONS
Lot 371:
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The Dr. Artur Seyss-Inquart presentation photograph Album, 36 pp. folio, Hague, April 18, 1942, given to Artur Seyss-Inaquart for his service to the Dutch branch of the N.S.V., the National Socialist People’s Welfare organization. This social welfare organization founded by the NSDAP in 1933, also absorbed non-affiliated charities, and shut-off any aid to Jews. It also became more involved in child and youth labor as the war progressed. The leather-covered album bears satin lining and a typed presentation card presenting it to Seyss-Inquart on the first anniversary of his administration of the program in the Netherlands. Above the card appears his personal stamp. Within there first appears a map of Holland with various symbols showing various newly established "…leadership schools…mother homes…expectant mother homes…children’s rest homes…maternity homes…", and so on. Within are multiple photographs of children at kindergartens and schools, Nazi Commissioner Fritz Schmidt, Hitler Youth in uniform greeting soldiers, Seyss-Inquart meeting cheering youth with Nazi flags, a group of mothers receiving "training" in a group home, with the final images being of civilians gathering clothing which are loaded into freight cars marked: "NETHERLANDERS ALSO HELP THE EASTERN FRONT". Cover corners and edges are slightly scuffed, contents are fine.
Dimensions: 14 3/16 x 10 5/8 in., (36 x 27 cm.)
Condition: Very good.
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