BACKGROUND: One of the NSDAP’s most ambitious, and successful, projects was the elimination of the overwhelming unemployment suffered in Germany following WWI. To achieve this goal a national labor registration law was enacted on February 26TH 1935, and the Arbeitsbuch, (Employment Book), was instituted, as a record of an individuals employment history. Arbeitsbuch where also issued to those employed in the occupied territories and protectorates.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Arbeitsbuch for the Protectorate of Böhmen u. Mähren. Approximately 15cm x 10cm, brown printed cardstock cover that consists of sixteen pages. All entries are photographed.