[Below:
'Das Deutsche Lied
Liebeslieder
Heft'
(The German Song
Love songs
Booklet 5)
Click to see inside!]
[Below:
Das Deutsche Lied
Kinderlieder
Heft 6
(The German Song
Children's songs
Booklet 6)
Click to see inside!]
[Below: Here are a selection of NSDAP donation stamps. 'Kreis Mosbach' (Mosbach District). Mosbach is a city in the north of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. These weren't real postage stamps, but instead you would buy them and place them next to your postage stamp on an envelope. You are probably familiar with everyone here except maybe Rust. He is Bernhard Rust (September 30, 1883 – May 8, 1945) who was Minister of Science, Education and National Culture. He also served as the party Gauleiter in Hanover and Brunswick from 1925 to 1940. He was an Old Fighter, joining the NSDAP in 1921. He committed suicide at the end of the war. Death before defeat. Click to enlarge.]
[Below: Here is an early donation stamp: 'Gross-Deutschland Erwache!' (Greater-Germany Awake!).]
[Below: This is an advertising stamp (not a postage stamp). It says:
'Deutsche Ware Deutscher Beist
Deutsche kaufmann ehrlich preist'
(German goods German assistance
German merchant honest prices).]
[Below: Here's an example of the above stamp used on an envelope from 1932.]
[Below: Here are two early NSDAP donation stamps depicting Adolf Hitler.]
[Below: 'Unsere Hoffnung' (Our Hope).]
[Below: Here's a strange one. I'm not sure what exactly this was for. It's a donation stamp for... castaways? Shipwrecks? It says:
'Spendenmarke
Deutsche Gesellschaft
zur Rettung Schiffbrüchiger'
(Donation stamp
German Society
for the Rescue of Castaways).]
[Below: This donation stamp says:
'10 Spende
Gesundejugend-
Wehrhaft Volk!'
(10 Donation
Healthy Youth-
Protecting People!).
Click to enlarge!]
[Below: This donation stamp says:
'Winter-Hilfswerk des Deutsche Volkes'
(German People's Winter Relief Fund).
Click to enlarge!]
[Below: Here is a rare example of the envelope these came in. Click to enlarge!]
[Below: Reverse. Click to enlarge!]
[Below: Here is a WHW postcard showing various tinnies and other trinkets that were given out. Note that in the middle are the donation stamps seen above. Front.]
[Below: Reverse.]
[Below: Here is a large collection of Winter-Hilfswerk (WHW) donation stamps. These are pretty rare and came in a set of 48. They were housed in the red folder seen below. All of the stamps show different locales in Thuringia (central Germany). Click to enlarge!]
[Below: Here are descriptions of each stamp.]
[Below: These are large (about a six inch circle) Winter-Hilfswerk (WHW) donation stickers, maybe to stick on the glass of your door? There are probably many more of these. Click to enlarge!]
