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Accession Number:\u00a0<\/strong>2022.02.4.2<\/p>\n

Stamp:<\/strong> 1936 Otto von Bismarck, Deutsches Reich, 6 Pfennig (dark green)<\/p>\n

Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck (1815-1898) was a conservative German-Prussian statesman who oversaw the unification of Germany. As the first Chancellor of the German Empire, he deployed Realpolitik<\/em> (a political philosophy in which power can be used at any cost in preservation of national interest (Humphreys, 2014)) to enlarge his support base by strategically implementing small-scale policies popular with the working class (Kissinger, 1968). This technique coupled with his Kulturkampf<\/em> (culture war) against the Catholic church and ethnic minorities (the Danes to the North, the Francophiles to the West, and the Poles to the East) created a strong backbone for German Nationalism (Taylor, 1967).<\/p>\n

Postmark:<\/strong><\/p>\n

B\u00fcckeberg Hameln 4 10. 36 – 18<\/em>
\nFestpostkarte B\u00fcckeberg \u2014 Erntedankfest 1936<\/em>
\nErnte Danktag<\/em><\/p>\n

B\u00fcckeberg Hameln [October] 4, 1936 – 6pm
\nB\u00fcckeberg holiday postcard \u2014 Thanksgiving 1936
\nHarvest appreciation day<\/p>\n

Historical background:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Reich Harvest Thanksgiving Festival (<\/span>Das Reichserntedankfest<\/span><\/em>) was a holiday created by the Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda Joseph Goebbels that ran from 1933 to 1937. The festival was a cooption of a traditional Christian Thanksgiving holiday popular with peasantry for the furtherance of the Nazi ideal <\/span>Blut und Boden<\/em> <\/span>(Blood and Soil) (Hameln Association, 2023)<\/span>. <\/span>Blut und Boden<\/span><\/em> is a nationalist slogan combining the white supremacist idea of pure \u201cblood\u201d with the nationalist romanticization and idealization of \u201cfarmer peasants<\/span>\u201d (Grunberger, 1995). To the Nazis, farming upheld natural \u201crural values\u201d which were seen as superior to weaker \u201curban culture,\u201d seen as having Jewish influence (Koonz, 2003)<\/span>. German peasants reacted positively to the festival, with attendance reaching 1.2 million in 1937 (Hameln Association, 2023)<\/span>. In 1936, the festival took place on October 4th, the same date that this postcard is postmarked.<\/span><\/p>\n

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References:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Grunberger, R. (1995). The 12-year Reich: A social history of Nazi Germany, 1933-1945<\/em> (1st Da Capo Press ed). De Capo Press.<\/div>\n
Guenther, I. (2004). Nazi chic? Fashioning women in the Third Reich<\/em>. Berg.<\/div>\n
Humphreys, A. R. C. (2014). Realpolitik. In M. T. Gibbons (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Political Thought<\/em> (1st ed., pp. 3151\u20133152). Wiley.<\/div>\n
Hameln Association for Regional Culture and History. \u201cFeiertag der Nation.<\/em>\u201d Dokumentation B\u00fcckeberg. June, 2023. https:\/\/www.dokumentation-bueckeberg.de\/de\/ns-reichserntedankfeste\/info-1.html<\/a>.<\/div>\n
Kissinger, H. A. (1968). The White Revolutionary: Reflections on Bismarck. Daedalus<\/em>, 97(3), 888\u2013924. JSTOR.<\/div>\n
Koonz, C. (2003). The Nazi conscience<\/em>. Belknap Press.<\/div>\n
Taylor, A. J. P. (1967). Bismarck: The man and the statesman<\/em> (Vintage Books edition). Vintage Books.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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