PROPAGANDA POSTCARDS
(1938)

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ZUR HISTORISCHEN BEGEGUNG
(29th Sep 1938)

BACKGROUND: This two-part postcard was issued to commemorate the four power Munich conference held in Sep 1938 in an effort to appease Adolf Hitler with his demands for the Sudetenland. The conference sacrificed the Czech people for another year of peace in Europe. There were several other postcards issued on the same theme and with similar designs.

SONDERSTEMPEL:

VERLAG O. STRUCK

This was a two-part, or double card, and it was intended to be cut in half and used as two serarate postcards, one featuring the Allied powers of Great Britain and France, and the other featuring the Axis powers of Germany and Italy.

VERLAG H. LAUSCHKE, LEIPZIG

This postcard also features the heads of the four powers present at the conference, this time however they are shown from left to right: Great Britain, Germany, Italy and France. An image of the conference venue (The Brown House) in Munich is also shown.

VERLAG Th. KÖNIG, BERLIN

Another card featuring the four powers, this time by publisher Th. König.

VERLAG PHOTO HOFFMANN

The following postcard is a Verlag Photo Hoffmann photocard the leaders of the four nations that had gathered in Munich to decide the future of Czechoslovakia. The leaders are, from left to right, Neville Chamberlain (Great Britain), Edouard Deladier (France), Adolf Hitler (Germany) and Benito Mussolini (Italy). Although these two cards both have the same number 'S4' you can see that they are not identical photographs, they are both taken from slightly different angles or were cropped during the printing process.





Another photocard from Photo Hoffmann again at the conference and now capturing the moment when Britain's Neville Chamberlain signs away Czechoslovia's future for a few more months of peace.




There is at least one other Photo Hoffmann photocard that depicts Adolf Hitler signing the Agreement.



The following photocard from Photo Hoffmann captures the moment when Italy's Benito Mussolini signs the agreement.