----- Instruction book for medical and enlisted men. Dated August 12, 1939. Mittler u& Sohn 1940. 194 illustrations, 432 pages with stamp from Medical Wehrmacht Heer. ----- Krueger, Richard (SS-Obersturmbannführer and senior staff doctor) Title: Official textbook on first aid (1939) Publisher: German Red Cross, 263 pages. ----- The rise of the medical corps Berlin / Oldenburg, published by Gerhard Stalling 166 pages Introduction - Fighting in the "good old days" - General overview of war losses - Wounding in war - Threat of illness and significance of illness as a phenomenon of war - Research and progress. Wound inflammation and poisoning, communicable (infectious) diseases - World War, epidemic and infection - Becoming of the German Medical Corps - Kings, generals, soldiers and doctors - First aid, transport, hospital - Voluntary nursing and the Red Cross - Welfare and care of the Soldiers - repercussions and outlook - literature. - "In a highly interesting cultural-historical review, the author shows the sanitary conditions of past times and the development of care for the sick and wounded in war from ancient times to the present. All types of epidemics and wound poisoning and their combating as well as the great achievements of medicine are also discussed The last decades are presented in detail. Finally, the development and organization of the German medical corps in the army and the navy is described here for the first time. Detailed figures are provided on the army and wounded statistics." ----- Death image 19x11 cm from a medical sergeant Karl Hödl, Kasberg dead in 28.3.1945.