Description

Kampf ums Dritte Reich Album Book

 

Cigaretten-Bilderdienst, Altona-Bahrenfeld, 1933. Softcover.

92 pages.

Paste-down on front cover shows image of the Brandenburg Gate quadriga with the Swastika.

Gold lettering below paste-down.

Early National Socialist propaganda cigarette-card album documenting Hitler rise to power.

Chapters look at Hitler during World War I, the 1923 Hitler-Putsch, various NS organizations, the Führer traveling throughout Germany, Hitler in private, NS meetings and parades, their victory on Jan. 30th, 1933, etc. Other sections praise Hermann Göring, Joseph Goebbels, and Ernst Röhm. .. Includes full-page b/w reproductions of photographs depicting Hitler in full uniform, with young admirers of the Hitler Youth, Horst Wessel during a SA parade, the victory parade at the Brandenburg Gate on the night of the Nazi takeover, as well as a group shot of Hitler with Goebbels, Göring, Himmler, Heß, Röhm, Frick, Kube, Kerrl, and Darré.

230 cards are present,some 35 are not. Average size of cards is 2 1/2″ x 2″. Text in German, gothic script. Some age wear, staining and creasing . Overall good condition for its age.