• Note: The Reichsadler, or National Eagle, was originally intended to face the right when used as a national symbol, and to the left when used for a NSDAP symbol, but somewhere along the line, they abandoned this concept, as you will see below.

    [Below: Okay, not Third Reich, but these advertising stamps are neat. 'Kunstausstellung' means 'Art Exhibition'.]

    [Below: This is a very sly-looking eagle. It says 'Seid Einig wählt Deutsche Staatspartei' which means 'Be United, Vote German State Party'.]

    [Below: This eagle must have been huge...]

    [Below: I like this tinnie a lot, it is very unique-looking.]

    [Below: Wow, check out this book! The king of all book spines...]

    [Below: Cover of book. This is a book about Göring called 'Werk und Mensch' (Work and Man). It was written by Erich Gritzbach and published in 1941.]

    [Below: Now this is cool! This Winterhilfwerk 'tinnie' is made of some type of plastic. It says 'Wir gehören zusammen, dann sind wir alles' (We belong together, then we are everything).]

    [Below: This eagle looks like a Wehrmacht eagle, but less detailed. This 1937 book is called

    'Ausgewählte
    Reden des Führers
    und Seiner Mitarbeiter
    1937
    Rede des italienischen Regierungschefs Mussolini
    auf dem Maifeld in Berlin'

    (Selected
    Speeches of the Führer
    and His Colleagues
    1937
    Speech by Italian Prime Minister Mussolini
    on the Maifeld in Berlin)

    The Maifeld was a large outdoor venue used for annual May Day celebrations by the National Socialists. Its capacity was 250,000 standing room and 44,000 sitting in the stands.]

    [Below: This is up there in the top ten of strange eagles. This is in Zittau, Saxony, in eastern Germany. This was built along with many, many other theaters by the National Socialists. The Grenzlandtheater survived the war and is still in operation today, but under a different name. Click to enlarge.]

    [Below: Close-up.]

    [Below: Another shot of the theater.]

    [Below: The theater today, its magic gone.]

    [Below: This picture, of the Reich Aviation Ministry building, is taken from the Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung, February 11, 1943, number 6.]

    [Below: Waffen-SS recruiting center. Wow.]

    [Below: Waffen-SS recruiting center. Wow.]

    [Below: Wehrmacht identification protector. Click to see inside.]

    [Below: Wehrmacht identification protector (with ID inside). Click to see inside.]

    [Below: While no eagle, it goes with the items above. This is an NS Frauenschaft membership book housed in a beautiful protector. Click to see inside.]

    [Below: This tinnie, made from wartime zinc, says 'Frankentag - Hesselberg - 1939'.]

    [Below: This is an enamaled WHW shooting award from 1940-41.]

    [Below: This is a membership stick pin for a shooting organization.]

    [Below: This is a 1942 shooting competition award. It is a large, heavy and enameled pin.]

    [Below: This is a 1944 shooting competition award. Close to the end, this late war pin lacks the enamel of previous awards.]

    [Below: This tinnie says 'Reichstreffen' (Reich's meeting).]

    [Below: As above this tinnie says 'Reichstreffen' (Reich's meeting), except it has a 1937 date and the location, plus the words 'Kinderreichen' (having children).]

    [Below: Ortsgruppe Schriesheim stamp. The years have been rough on this... yet over a period of 80 some years human beings continue to keep it. Nonetheless it is a very rare item. Schriesheim is a town located in Baden-Württemberg.]

    [Below: Ortsgruppe Schriesheim banner.]

    [Below: Close-up.]

    [Below: The launching of the cruise ship 'Dr. Robert Ley'.]

    [Below: This is the German Bund in the USA. Look carefully...]

    [Below: Close-up! Check out this eagle!]

    [Below: SA guards at Oranienburg concentration camp, 1933.]

    [Below: And finally... the grandest, strongest eagle of them all! Haha...]

    [Below: Close-up.]

    [Below: Here's another one for ya. This postcard has a special cancel for the Sixth World Poultry Congress in Leipzig, 1936.]

    [Below: Close-up.]

    [Below: Here's another rooster cancel for your collection.]

    [Below: It says 'Dresdener Jahres Schau Juni - September 1935 Der Rotehahn Feuerschutz u. Rettungswesen' (Dresden Annual Show June - September 1935 The Red Rooster Fire Protection and Rescue Services).]

    [Below: Here are some pigeons to keep the roosters company.]

    [Below: Close-up.]

    [Below: And everyone loves seagulls! This is from Zingst, Germany, 'The East Sea bath resort with the ideal beach'.]