Accession Number: 2022.02.8.6 Front: “A Sonderkarte für das Winterhilfswerk (Special Card for the Winter Relief) with an imprinted Hindenburg 3 Rpf. stamp. Issued in the fall of 1934 by the Gau München-Oby. Civil Servants Collection Office and the München Postal Administration. The card was designed by H. Stockmann and printed by several München firms among…

Accession Number: 2022.02.8.8 The title of this postcard is Verschmoren in Treue zum Volk, which translates to “Bestow your faith in the People” In the illustration, the male figure wears a tunic bearing a “Julfest” symbol, with his arm raised in a salute. The background behind him is a forest fire. The postcard comes with…

Accession Number: 2022.02.8.12  Stamp: The stamp is pre-printed on and from the Winterhilfswerk collection. It features a sailing ship design and has a face value of 6+4 pfennigs. The postcard lacks any printed or handwritten text, only the word “Postkarte” on the top right of the postcard. The illustration is of deep-sea fishermen with the signature…

Accession Number: 2022.02.8.14 Stamp: The stamp is pre-printed on and from the Winterhilfswerk collection. It features a sailing ship design and has a face value of 6+4 pfennigs. The postcard lacks any handwritten text. “Postkarte” is printed on the top right of the postcard, and under the postcard’s illustration is the text “Winterhilfswerk des deutschen…

Accession Number: 2022.02.8.18 Stamp: The stamp is pre-printed on and from the Winterhilfswerk collection. It features a sailing ship design and has a face value of 6+4 pfennigs. The postcard lacks any handwritten text. “Postkarte” is printed on the top right of the postcard, and under the postcard’s illustration is the text “Winterhilfswerk des deutschen…

Accession Number: 2022.02.8.21 Stamp: The stamp is pre-printed on and from the Winterhilfswerk collection. It features a sailing ship design and has a face value of 6+4 pfennigs. The postcard lacks any handwritten text. “Postkarte” is printed on the top right of the postcard, and under the postcard’s illustration is the text “Winterhilfswerk des deutschen Volks…

Accession Number: 2022.02.8.22 Stamp: The stamp is pre-printed on and from the Winterhilfswerk collection. It features a sailing ship design and has a face value of 6+4 pfennigs. The postcard lacks any handwritten text. “Postkarte” is printed on the top right of the postcard, and under the postcard’s illustration is the text “Winterhilfswerk des deutschen Volks…

Accession Number: 2022.02.8.23 Stamp: The stamp is pre-printed on and from the Winterhilfswerk collection. It features a sailing ship design and has a face value of 6+4 pfennigs. Postmark: The postmark cancellation stamp reading: Nüremberg, 50. Geburtstag des führers, Die Stadt der Reichsparteitage. Translating to “Nuremberg, the Führer’s 50th birthday, the city of the Reich Party Rallies.”…

Accession Number: 2022.02.9.11 Stamp: The hand-stamp usage in 1940 over an adhesive postmark indicates that this postcard was mailed by the feldpost. Postmark: 21-6-40 16-17 Historical Context: Feuertaufe (Baptism of Fire) is a German-produced propaganda film made with aerial footage of airstrikes taken by combat cameramen during Hitler’s invasion of Poland. The song depicted on…

Accession Number: 2022.02.12.5.18 Stamp: 5 Pfennig, 10 Pfennig Deutsches Reich Postmark: Königssee 6.9.33 18-19 Front: A photo of Adolf Hitler shaking hands and being gifted a bouquet of flowers captioned, “Volkskanzler Adolf Hitler in Berchtesgaden,” (Peoples’ Chancellor Adolf Hitler in Berchtesgaden). Berchtesgaden is an alpine municipality in Bavaria, along the German border with Austria. Back:  [Dutch]…