Original Item: Only One available. Here we have a lovely 1941 Dated 13. Auflage (13th Edition) of the German Red Cross DRK First Aid Instruction Manual, in very good condition. It measures 5 7/8"W x 8 1/4"H x 7/8"D, and is 263 pages long, including the index. This is one of many books published for the DRK, and has the DRK emblem on the front cover over the following text:

Amtliches Unterrichtsbuch
über
Erſte Hilfe

This translates to:-

Official instruction manual
on
first aid

The same name is written on the spine. The book, written by Dr. med. Richard Krueger, ᛋᛋ-Standardtenführer, Oberſtabsartzt d. R., and contains information on all manner of first responder techniques, complete with illustrations. The book shows some staining and deformation, but is overall in very good shape, with all the pages intact. It even looks to be named to a Frieda Glab. on the first page. A lovely example of a DRK first aid manual!

History of the German Red Cross (DRK)
The DRK, "Deutsches Rotes Kreuz" (German Red Cross), a voluntary civil assistance organization originally instituted in 1864, was officially acknowledged by the Geneva Convention in 1929. In December 1937 it gained status as a legally recognized organization by the NSDAP. As with other essential services in Third Reich Germany, it came under control of the NSDAP in late 1938 under the auspices of the Ministry of the Interior's Social Welfare Organization.

History of the "Red Cross" Symbol
It was important to clearly identify Medical personnel in the field. One of the early documents, such as the Amelioration of the Conditions of the Wounded in Armies in the Field signed August 22, 1864, by a number of Governments, already instructed that Flag and Arm Badges worn by Medical personnel would bear a Red Cross on a White Field. Both symbols when used on Hospitals, Ambulances, Evacuation and Aid Centers, were to be proof of their neutral status! These signs provided for neutrality of military and civilian protected personnel (it gave them non-belligerent status) exclusively engaged in removal, transportation, and treatment of wounded and sick, or the administration of sanitary formations and establishments, and entitled them to respect and protection from their enemies. The 1929 Geneva Convention which superseded the former agreement, was signed on July 27, 1929 by forty-seven countries (including the Axis countries, Germany, Italy, and Japan) and comprised numerous articles, among which Articles 9 and 21, recognizing that bearers of special identification cards and civilian protected personnel identified by armbands, and vehicles, and installations wearing Geneva Convention markings and markers, were all exclusively engaged in medical care activities, and consequently protected and respected by the Geneva Convention.