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3rd Reich Rarity: 2x Historical Police Manuals (Criminal Police & Auxiliary Police) - An official service manual for the Criminal Police from 1937. • Content: A collection of laws, regulations, and work instructions for police officers and public prosecutors in the Nazi state. A functional official binder with metal screws, intended for filing and updating pages. The stamps confirm continued use after 1945. It moved from the Schifferstadt police station to the (newly founded after the war) State Criminal Police Office of Rhineland-Palatinate – a typical example of how old specialist literature continued to be used in the post-war period due to a lack of alternatives. Manual for the Auxiliary Police Officer • Author/Editor: Karl Lautenschläger (Major of the Schutzpolizei (Protection Police) with the Commander of the Ordnungspolizei (Order Police) Saar/Lothringen). • Publication Year: 1940 (8th edition). • Publisher: Kameradschaft Verlagsgesellschaft Gersbach & Co., Berlin. This manual was specifically intended for auxiliary police officers. These were often men who were conscripted or ordered into service during the war to support the regular police, to compensate for personnel shortages on the ”home front” or in occupied territories. It serves as a training aid and guide. It provides the necessary basic knowledge about police powers, conduct in service, and the legal foundations that an auxiliary officer, unlike a professional police officer, needed to know. The mention of the location ”Saar/Lothringen” by the editor illustrates the connection to the expansion of the German Reich during World War II. The book also contains advertising pages for specialist magazines such as ”Die Polizei” (The Police) and ”Der Gendarm” (The Gendarme) as well as for a ”Verkehrs-Lexikon” (Traffic Lexicon). Conclusion: A compact instruction book for auxiliary police forces, showing how the Nazi state attempted to quickly integrate even unskilled personnel into the police apparatus. Condition II