• The work books that you'll see here range from 1935 - 1944 and detail very diverse skill sets and work. From radio, the aircraft industry, the Wehrmacht and even I.G. Farben. They cover a wide variety of cities and locales, from Bohemia and Moravia to the capital of the Reich -- Berlin.

  • Here we'll see the change to the new style of work book.

    [Below: This work book was issued in April 1938 in Nuremberg. This person worked at the Nuremberg-Fürth Police Headquarters, the Salzburg Army Garrison Administration, the Air Foce Garrison Administration and the Bavarian Insurance Bank. In the back of the book it also notes that he fulfilled his Reich Labor Service obligation in 1940.]

    [Below: This work book was issued in April 1938 in Trier. This person worked for a construction company. Oddly this is the first work book that doesn't have instructions in the back of the book. It does, however, have a identification card used after the war (on a de-'Nazified' card).]

    [Below: This work book was issued in September 1938 in Kaiserslautern. This person worked for a university clinic, an army garrison, a battery factory, an army equipment factory and as a saleswoman.]

    [Below: This work book was issued in January 1939 in Krefeld. This person worked for a hospital and an I.G. Farben chemical factory.]

    [Below: This work book was issued in February 1939 in Vienna. This person worked for the famous company Siemens.]

    [Below: This work book was issued in March 1939 in Limburg. This person worked for the Autobahn.]

    [Below: This work book was issued in April 1939 in Nuremberg. This person worked for a construction company.]

    [Below: This work book was issued in June 1939 in Düsseldorf. There is a notation stapled to the inside of the cover, something I've never seen them do before, regarding an insurance claim. This person worked for a pharmacy, the Cologne Air Base, the Düsseldorf Air Base and the Army Garrison Administration in Stuttgart.]

    [Below: This work book was issued in October 1939 in Lörrach. This person worked for the post office.]

    [Below: This work book was issued in November 1939 in Eger. This person worked for Gebr. Uebel Roßbach, a historically prominent, family-owned textile and carpet manufacturing company in the Sudetenland.]

    [Below: This work book was issued in June 1940 in Vienna. This person worked for the post office, the Vienna Chancellery and a civil registry office.]

    [Below: This work book was issued in August 1940 in Komotau. I'm unsure what this person did for work?]

    [Below: This work book was issued in September 1940 in Braunau am Inn. This person worked as a farmer.]

    [Below: This work book was issued in October 1940 in Rumburg. This person worked as a housekeeper.]

    [Below: This work book was issued in August 1941 in Graslitz. This person worked in a coal mine. It's interesting that a number of the employers are in the Czech language.]

    [Below: This work book was issued in June 1942 in Mainz. This person worked in a warehouse.]

    [Below: This work book was issued in October 1942 in Neumarkt. This person worked in a pulp mill.]

    [Below: This work book was issued in April 1943 in Marburg. This person worked for the NSDAP Hitler Youth.]

    [Below: This work book was issued in October 1943 in Berlin. This person worked for Daimler-Benz.]

    [Below: This work book was issued in October 1944 in graz. The first thing you notice is they have completely changed the font, I wonder why? You'll also note that the eagle and wreath has been redrawn. This person worked for a chemical engineering laboratory.]