MISCELLANEOUS POSTCARDS
(1936)
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SWASTIKA SUN RISES OVER AURBACH
(1936)
OFFICIAL MAIL FROM HÖHE
(22nd Feb 1936)
YOUR VOTE FOR THE LEADER!
(24th Mar 1936)
BERLIN EHRENMAL, UNTER DEN LINDEN
BERLIN MEMORIAL, UNTER DEN LINDEN
(3rd Aug 1936)
The Neue Wache is a monument on the boulevard Unter den Linden 4 in the Mitte district of Berlin. Built between 1816 and 1818 by Karl Friedrich Schinkel in the classicism style as a guard building for the Royal Palace, it was transformed into a memorial in 1931. Burnt out during the Second World War, the Neue Wache was rebuilt between 1951 and 1957. Since 1993 it has been home to the Central Memorial of the Federal Republic of Germany for the victims of war and tyranny.
ALBERT LEO SCHLAGETER
(16th Aug 1936)
Albert Leo Schlageter (12th Aug 1894 - 26th May 1923) was a soldier in the First World War and a member of the Freikorps. Schlageter was a member of the NSDAP front organization Greater German Workers' Party. He was a militant activist during the Franco-Belgian occupation of the Ruhr and was sentenced to death and executed by a French military court for espionage and several bombings.
After his execution in the Weimar Republic, Schlageter was not only made a martyr figure by right-wing circles, but also received considerable sympathy “across party lines”. Nazi propaganda made him the “first soldier of the Third Reich” and founded a “Schlageter cult”.