Third Reich Sheet Music Booklet - Horst Wessel-Marschalbum, Teil I

A softcover sheet music album titled "Deutschland erwache! Horst Wessel Marsch-Album, 1. Teil, " featuring an illustrated cover signed "Mjoelnir" depicting a uniformed figure sounding a trumpet before a field of party banners. The title page reads "Horst Wessel-Marschalbum, Teil I: Lieder der Nationalsozialistischen Deutschen Arbeiterpartei, Vaterlands- und Soldatenlieder und Maersche aus alter und neuer Zeit, " arranged by Hans Buchner, 11. Auflage, published by Verlag Frz. Eher Nachf., Muenchen, dated 1933. An inside page carries a publisher's advertisement list, "Die Musik des Nationalsozialisten!", enumerating related Eher Nachf. music titles with their prices.

Mjoelnir was the pen name of Hans Schweitzer, a graphic artist closely associated with NSDAP propaganda imagery of the period; the Horst Wessel song, from which this album's title derives, served as the party's official anthem alongside the national anthem after 1933.

This sheet music album was published in 1933 by Franz Eher Nachfolger, the official NSDAP publishing house based in Munich, and compiles NSDAP anthems, patriotic songs, and marches under the title referencing Horst Wessel, an SA member killed in 1930 whose commemorated death and associated song became central to Nazi propaganda after Hitler's appointment as chancellor. The cover art is credited to "Mjoelnir, " the pen name of Hans Schweitzer, a graphic artist who produced much of the visual propaganda for Joseph Goebbels' Berlin Gau organisation and the NSDAP press during the Kampfzeit and early Nazi state. The advertisement page reflects the broader effort by the Eher Verlag to standardise and commercially distribute nationalist and Nazi musical repertoire for mass consumption following the party's consolidation of power.