A German 'Wedding Gift' Presentation Grade Adolf Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' Published in 1939. Presentation & Personally Signed by Dr. Wiard Bronleewe Burgomeister & SA District Leader of Peine

Presented for the wedding of Kurt Wachholz to Margarete gebr. Vogt after some research apparently Kurt Wachholz was a German SS-Hauptscharführer who died in East Germany

Adolf Hitler Mein Kampf Wedding Edition, being an excellent condition example with cream hardboard covers having gilt tooled town emblem and the spine being blue leather covered with gilt tooled details. Inside page with printed page and inked details from the local official and dated 14th 1939, just six weeks after the start of WW2. Published by the official publisher of the NSDAP. The book also bears a facsimile signature of Adolf Hitler beneath his photograph, on the inside frontispiece, and the signed presentation certificate to the marrying couple from the Burgomeister. Originally when SS men were married the book may have been contained in a carved wooden SS box, some surviving boxes do exist but their definitive connection to the Wedding presentation Mein Kampf is unrecorded.

Leather bound with cream covers. Given just six weeks after the beginning of WW2 by the Burgermiester Dr. Wiard Bronleewe of Peine. Bearing the state crest of arms of Piene on the front cover. Condition very good to excellent. Mein Kampf ("My Struggle") is an autobiographical manifesto by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, in which he outlines his political ideology and future plans for Germany. Volume 1 of Mein Kampf was published in 1925 and Volume 2 in 1926. The book was edited by the former Hieronymite friar Bernhard Stempfle, who was murdered during the Night of the Long Knives.

Hitler began dictating the book to his deputy Rudolf Hess while imprisoned for what he considered to be "political crimes" following his failed Putsch in Munich in November 1923. Although Hitler received many visitors initially, he soon devoted himself entirely to the book. As he continued, Hitler realized that it would have to be a two-volume work, with the first volume scheduled for release in early 1925. The governor of Landsberg noted at the time that "he Hitler hopes the book will run into many editions, thus enabling him to fulfill his financial obligations and to defray the expenses incurred at the time of his trial."

The lawyer Dr. Wiard Bronleewe joined the NSDAP in 1933 at the age of 36. Four years later he was appointed First Deputy Mayor of the city of Peine. After Mayor Erich Krüger was killed in an accident on a trip to the battlefields of the First World War, he took over his office. In addition, he was a member of the NSDAP district leadership in Peine as district office manager for local politics.

In his dual role as mayor, who was able to make all important decisions independently according to the "Führer principle", and member of the NSDAP district leadership, he was responsible for implementing the increasingly radical National Socialist policy during the war years. He played a particularly important role in the persecution of the Jewish community. In 1941 he planned to "level the Jewish cemetery and make it available to the public". His knowledge of the finality of the deportation of the Jewish population is shown by the fact that in early 1942 he coordinated the process of "distributing Jewish housing".

His behavior at the end of the war is controversial, when negotiations with the Americans succeeded in surrendering Peine without a fight and thus saving it from a feared bombing. Some reports describe him as a rather passive participant who had to be pressured to surrender the city, while others see him as the driving force of events, a view that he himself promoted.

Deposed by the Allies in 1945, he became active again in political parties and various associations in 1947, including the German Party. Bronleewe was a member of the Peine City Council again in 1952; after lengthy disputes, including legal ones, over his NSDAP past, he was able to become a city councillor and thus deputy city director in 1954. As a department head, he headed the legal department and social affairs. In 1957, he was promoted to senior city councillor. He retired in 1962 and lived in Peine until his death in 1976. Bronleewe's rapid rise to prominence in Peine politics and administration after 1945 is exemplary of the rapid integration of former NSDAP members, even when they had held leading positions of responsibility.

Photo in the gallery of Mayor Dr. Wiard Bronleewe giving a speech in front of the Peine town hall, 1940. in his full SA political leader uniform.

Another photo in the gallery of Kurt Wachholz in the uniform of SS-Hauptscharführer

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