[Below: I'm not sure what this is, but it looks like a postage stamp show.]
[Below: This book is titled 'Ein Buch von der neuen Kriegsmarine' (A Book from the New Navy).]
[Below: A beautiful Waffen-SS award document...]
[Below: Wehrmacht Signals stamps. The signals branch created and managed communications and information systems. The stamps says 'Heeres Nachrichtendienst' (Army Intelligence). These stamps came on a roll inside small army green metal cans. You'll note that the top stamp is pre-National Socialist.]
[Below: Strip of three.]
[Below: Roll of Signals stamps in original army green metal can.]
[Below: Adolf Hitler speaks at the launching ceremony of a new ship.]
[Below: A rare and beautiful postcard showing Germany and Austria shaking hands. In the bottom right hand corner it says 'Deutschland Ehre' (German Honor). The back says 'Verlag für Nationale Bild Kunst' (Publishing House for National Picture Art).]
[Below: Here is an eagle from 1930s German television, of which the National Socialists, like so many other things, were pioneers.]
[Below: Close-up.]
[Below: A very odd-looking eagle carrying an awesome message: 'Die Wahrheit Hat Gesiegt' (The Truth Has Prevailed).]
[Below: Close-up.]
[Below: This postcard celebrates the
'Tag der Deutschen Kunst - München - 14.-16. Juli 1939.' (Day of German Art - Munich - July 14-16, 1939.)]
[Below: The is the largest picture I could get of this strange eagle. It looks like it is sitting atop a steerig wheel.]
[Below: The Hitler Youth cancel on this postcard is amazingly cool. This special cancel commemorates a Hitler Youth parade in Leipzig on May 22, 1938.]
[Below: Close-up.]
[Below: This envelope was canceled on December 3, 1940 in Wiesbaden and says 'Waffenstillstandskommission' (Armistice Commission).]
[Below: Close-up.]
[Below: Here's an interesting eagle from the General Government from August 1941.]
[Below: This postcard was canceled on October 28, 1935 in Mannheim and says 'Auf der Autobahn nach Mannheim' (On the Motorway to Mannheim). The German Autobahn, like so many other National Socialist inventions, revolutionized the world's highway systems.]
[Below: Close-up.]
[Below: Here's a related postcard showing Adolf Hitler scooping the first shovel of dirt for the Autobahn. It says '23.9.1933 Erster Spatenstich (23.9.1933 Groundbreaking ceremony
[Below: Postcard front.]
[Below: Postcard back. This celebrates 'Gautag (region/district) of the NSDAP. from 22 to 25 June 1939' and has a commemorative cancel from Potsdam.]
[Below: Close-up.]
[Below: Is this cool or what? It's a Political Leader collar tab. It would have been worn by a 'OberGemeinschaftsleiter' (Chief Community Leader) at the 'Kries' level. The back of the tab is brown velvet. Front/back.]
[Below: I was very surprised that they went through the trouble of putting eagles and swastikas on the little buttons! How cool is that?]
[Below: These are German Red Cross sleeve insignias. One is finished and one is not. This eagle design looks so powerful.]
[Below: This is a rare shirt patch of the 'Deutsche Lebens-Rettungs-Gesellschaft or DLRG' (The German Life Saving Association). This organization is still around today, in fact it is the largest voluntary lifesaving organization in the world.]
[Below: This rare and cool postcard celebrates Adolf Hitler's 55th birthday. It says:
'Die nationalsozialistische Staatsführung ist daher entschlossen diesen Kampf mit dem äußersten Fanatismus bis zur letzten Konsequenz zu führen.'
(The National Socialist leadership is therefore determined to wage this struggle with extreme fanaticism to the last consequence.)]
[Below: This powerful eagle is from a 1936 cigarette card book called 'Bilder Deutscher Geschichte' (Pictures of German History).]
[Below: Alternative image showing different lighting.]
[Below: Another cool eagle inside book.]
23.9.1936 1000km Autobahn fertig'
23.9.1936 1000km of motorway completed).]
