110 - Eight girls' books and songbooks, Bund Deutscher Mädel, Arbeitsmaiden, Frauenschaft, 1933 to 1943

Eight girls' books and songbooks, Bund Deutscher Mädel, Arbeitsmaiden, Frauenschaft, 1933 to 1943 Paper, board and cloth, lot of eight girls' books and songbooks, 1933 to 1943. 1) "Lieder der Arbeitsmaiden", 1943, light brown board binding. 2) "Wir Mädel singen", 1940, beige-brown cloth binding, songbook. 3) "Liederbuch der N.S. Frauenschaft", 1934, landscape format, grey-green board binding with triangular emblem of the Frauenschaft, music with lute and violin accompaniment. 4) "Floria", "Die Geschichte eines Mädels", by Karl-Heinz Becker, 1941, colour-illustrated cover with a man in uniform, a child in his arms and a woman in traditional costume. 5) "Wir Arbeitsmaiden", "Ein Bildbericht" by Gustav von Estorff, 1940, photographic cover with a young woman in a cornfield, blue border, full-page photographs inside. 6) "Jungmädel auf dem Köllingshof" by Irmgard Perzl, colour-illustrated cover with a girl holding a sheaf of grain in front of a half-timbered house, red cloth spine, photographs inside. 7) "Deutsche Mädels auf Fahrt" by Adolf Löhr, colour-illustrated cover with three girls in a rowing boat and pennant, red cloth spine. 8) "Kari", "Eine Mädchengeschichte", by Gabriel Scott, 1933, colour-illustrated cover with four girls in the dunes, one with an accordion. Condition commensurate with age. The Bund Deutscher Mädel was the girls' organisation of the Hitler Youth for fourteen- to eighteen-year-olds; the ten- to fourteen-year-olds belonged to the Jungmädelbund. The songbook of the Bund Deutscher Mädel was issued by the Reich Youth Leadership and published from 1937 in Wolfenbüttel and Berlin. The Arbeitsmaiden of the Reich Labour Service for female youth, which was voluntary from 1935 and compulsory from the outbreak of war in 1939, lived in camps in the countryside, helped farming families and households and were subordinate to Reich Labour Leader Konstantin Hierl (1875 to 1955); their songbook was first published in 1938 by Voggenreiter Verlag in Potsdam, and Estorff's photo book, with a foreword by Asta von Larisch, by Zeitgeschichte-Verlag in Berlin. The Frauenschaft songbook was compiled by Robert Kothe and published in 1934 by Heinrichshofen Verlag in Magdeburg. The girls' books by Karl-Heinz Becker and Adolf Löhr were published by Bardtenschlager Verlag in Reutlingen, the story by Irmgard Perzl by Enßlin & Laiblin in Reutlingen. Gabriel Scott (1874 to 1958), born in Leith and died in Arendal, was a Norwegian poet, novelist, playwright and children's author; his story about Kari was published in 1933 in the translation by Käthe Miethe with illustrations by Fritz Loehr by Schaffstein Verlag in Cologne.