Original Item: One-of-a-kind. The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei), commonly known in English as the NSDAP, was a political party in Germany between 1919 and 1945. It was known as the German Workers' Party (DAP) before the name was changed in 1920. The party's last leader, Adolf AH, was appointed Chancellor of Germany by president Paul von Hindenburg in 1933. AH rapidly established a totalitarian regime known as the Third Reich.

All members who joined the NSDAP "party" were given Membership books, which would contain their picture, personal information, and basic information about they party. It also contains pages listing when they paid their Partei-Beiträge (party dues), indicated by stamps, as well as further contributions to the party. It also would contain information regarding any changes in their residential location, as they were required to notify the Ortsgruppe (local group) when this occurred. This tracks the various locations the other was stationed during the NSDAP period.

This NSDAP membership book is named to Austrian Georg Söder, born 24. Dezember 1871, and a resident of Innsbruck in Austria when the book was issued 9. Jan. 1941. His name and book number 621767 are also marked on the front cover. Pages 8-9 contain his personal information as well as his picture. He was 69 when the book was issued, and there is no indication of what his occupation was, as it is quite likely he was retired by that point. Page 11 indicates that he was sworn into the NSDAP 20. April. 1939, about a year after the Anschluss. Starting on page 17 we can see his Partei-Beiträge (Party Dues), which are marked by stamps, which continue from 1941 into 1943, and then stop.

Really a great piece of German WWII identification material, ripe for further translation and research!

Of note: the persons filling out the books often wrote using Kurrentschrift, an older form of Germanic script writing, which is why the all the "u" letters are written as "ŭ". In this script the lowercase "n" and "u" are identical, so the latter gets the arc shaped mark over it. This is not indicative of an umlaut or other diacritical marking.