Superb piece. Very rare Christmas book issued to SS men and their families. This is the harder to find winter '43/'44 version. The Reichsf?hrer-SS, SS-Hauptamt (Main Office) in Berlin was responsible for the publication and distribution each year of a book called the Deutsches Weihnachtsbuch (German Christmas book). The books were printed either by the SS own publisher, Nordland Verlag in Berlin or F. Bruckmann in Munchen (Munich) and sent out to the families of SS officers and SS men prior to Christmas. The 8-3/8 x 10-1/4 inch, 100+ page, very heavily illustrated softcover books always bear the imprint of the Reichsfuhrer-SS (Heinrich Himmler) and the SS-Hauptamt in Berlin, Germany. This 1943/44 SS Christmas book has 104 heavily illustrated multi-color pages. There are words and music to SS and German songs, color photos, runic graphics, woodcuts, patriotic and pure-blood poems, Christmas stories, Nazi history, quotes from Adolf Hitler, soldier stories, mother and children material, etc. It also contains a full-page Krenzer pencil portrait of the Fuhrer and considerable East Front content. This original 70+ year old example of the 1943/44 Christmas book for SS and Police personnel published by Nordland Verlag in Berlin rare Dutch version. It is in excellent, near-new condition. Very good condition and beautifully illustrated. The perfect display item with a Julleuchter.