Set of German Third Reich Personal Documents and Booklets

A grouping of German civilian and paramilitary-era documents, comprising a shooting record book titled "Schiessbuch fuer den Sig. Arend, Reichswaldschule Paderborn, " a N.S. Volkswohlfahrt membership card issued in Munich with a swastika stamp and signature, a red postal savings identification card ("Ausweiskarte zum Postsparbuch") issued by the Deutsche Reichspost, and two Quittungsbuch booklets recording Fachschulbeitraege (trade-school dues) for the Drogisten-Fachschule in Leipzig, each bearing swastika-flanked printed covers and named to different individuals with contribution stamps affixed inside.

Such personal record books and cards were part of the everyday bureaucratic apparatus of the period, used to track school marksmanship training, welfare-organization membership, postal savings accounts, and trade-school dues payments for individual citizens.

These documents illustrate the extensive record-keeping culture of everyday life in Nazi Germany, where participation in state and party-affiliated institutions was closely documented. The Schiessbuch reflects the incorporation of marksmanship training into school curricula, part of broader efforts to prepare youth for eventual military service. The NS-Volkswohlfahrt was the National Socialist welfare organisation, responsible for social relief programmes including the Winterhilfswerk, while the Reichspost savings card and Drogisten-Fachschule due booklets reflect the routine civil and vocational administration through which ordinary citizens' lives intersected with both state and party structures.