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Hardcover book, DER SLAUBE AN DEATSCHLAND 1939 by HANS ZOBERLEIN, dedicated to party member FRANZ KORTUM 1940, DEDICATION TEXT BY HAND, AND SIGNED , FRANZ SELDTE. Gold embossed helmet to cover has faded off, other very good, 900pgs

Franz Seldte (29 June 1882 – 1 April 1947) was a German politician who served as the Reich Minister for Labour from 1933 to 1945. Prior to his ministry, Seldte served as the Federal Leader of Der Stahlhelm World War I ex-servicemen’s organisation from 1918 to 1934. Ideologically, he identified as a national conservative
Seldte was captured and arrested in Mondorf-les-Bains at the end of the war. During the Nuremberg trials, Seldte tried to exonerate himself by claiming that he had stood against the dictatorship of Hitler and that he advocated for a two-chamber system of parliamentary governance. His story was not convincing. Seldte died in a US military hospital in April 1947 at Fürth, before the Nuremberg Tribunal had the chance to formally hang him on the charges