Adolf hitler bilder aus dem leben des fuhrers, first edition. Nazi cigarette card albums or zigarettenbilderalbum usm books. Adolf hitler may be better known to posterity for burning rather than cherishing books, but as timothy w. Cigarette card photo of hitler addressing a large crowd collections. Brockhaus, leipzig, were bound in real saffian leather. Loads of pics of adolf hitler, parades, cityscapes with nazi banners, sa. Instead of enjoying the traditional soldiers comforts of visiting a brothel or purchasing cigarettes and schnapps, he spent four marks to buy a.
Most of the books that we managed to procure from this archival grouping were in very fine condition. The last page with the inscription three hundred copies of the adolf hitler book published by f. Cigarette card photo of hitler reading the newspaper collections. There he found the papers of dr theodor morell, hitlers personal physician, previously only a minor character in most studies of the fuhrer. Adolf hitler s signature leather books such as his personal guest book. The book is approximately 9 12 by 12 inches, with scuffing to the binding and a tear at the top of the spine. The oak leaf spring and the word kampf still have their gilded finish. Party cigarette cards, theresienstadt scrip, and german passbooks relating to. Presented here for sale is one of the best original third reich cigarette albums. The collection consists of nazi party cigarette cards, theresienstadt scrip, and german passbooks relating to life under the. The third reich viewed tobacco as a threat to the health of the chosen folk. Hitler was a 27 year smoker 18971924 with typical residual.
This fine album, subtitled bilder aus dem leben des fuhrers. Cigarettenbilderdienst was a german tobacco company which published blank books and sets of photos for those books which they marketed as a promotion for. Adolf hitler, a personal copy of the illustrated book adolf hitler adolf hitler bilder aus dem leben des fuhrers, ed. Album features orange cardboard cover with adolf hitler in gold gothic letters. The word mein as well as adolf hitler have been rubbed out. Dieter kalenbach this book uses an enlarged comic book format to describe the rise and fall of adolf hitler. Original german cigarette card albums from 1920s and 1930s including nazi germany w adolf hitler and other leaders. Bookprinted material photo, print, drawing adolf hitler. Nazi cigarette album 1933 w156 cards adolf hitler sa ss. This was the deluxe edition of the heinrich hoffmann book with special. The nazis forgotten antismoking campaign the atlantic. Minor traces of use and age to wrappers, otherwise ok.
Album of black and white photos known as cigarette cards. In later years, hitler viewed smoking as decadent and the wrath of the red man against the white man, vengeance for having been given hard liquor, lamenting that so many excellent men have been lost to tobacco poisoning. Paperwork cigarette albums, reference books and photographs. Robert proctor in his book, the nazi war on cancer, and tobacco at the time was. An unusual and fascinating look at an early propaganda book showing hitler hugging little girls and talking with the elders. This is a book from the library of the sstotenkopf verband oberbayern. Tobacco, which was established in 1941 and funded by hitlers. But what was most fascinating is that the hundred or so photos in the book were not printed in the pages but each photo was pasted in by hand by the prisoners from the stalag camps. This mein kampf has a good hard cover with a spine covered in blue leather. Adolf hitler cigarette card album johnson reference books.