Signed Mein Kampf Dedicated to Gauleiter of Brooklyn NY

Signed Mein Kampf Dedicated to Gauleiter of Brooklyn NY
Adolf Hitler signed and dedicated Mein Kampf. This 1937 two volume set of Mein Kampf is a special gift edition, or the "Geschenkausgabe" edition in hardback cloth. The dedication is what makes this particular example extra special. Hitler wrote three lines to Joseph Schuster which reads "To fellow Party Member, J. Schuster. In Memory of our common battle for GermanyÂ’s greatness." It's dated November 1937 in Munich and signed Adolf Hitler. Joseph Schuster was the Gauleiter of Brooklyn, New York and was a member of the German American Bund, the German-American Pro-Nazi organization that consisted only of American citizens of German descent. The main goal of this organization was to promote the National Socialist Germany of Adolf Hitler. It was founded in 1936 and dissolved in 1941, after the USA went to war with Germany. On August 12, 1935 the New York World telegram reported that there were 1,100 Nazis in Ridgewood, Brooklyn, but "to most of them, the American Nazi movement offers simply another of those sociable Vereins they can never resist joining." There were two main organizations: the Friends of the New Germany, headed by Joseph Schuster: and the breakaway American National Socialists League established in January 1935, headed by Anton Haegele. According to William Birnie in the same newspaper on August 14, Nazism offered two attractive features to German Americans who might have had no interest in spreading Nazi propaganda: first, they supported the war on the American boycott of German goods and services; second, they offered an extensive program of social and athletic activities. A signed Mein Kampf dedicated to an American is an extremely rare item and we've never had one in our possession before.