Mi.569-570 (15.03.1935)
Hero Memorial Day
Commercial postcard sent from Willy Hesse (Shoe and Sports retailer) in Grossenhain (note the address of 'Adolf-Hitler-Platz') to the headgear manufacturing firm of Otto Dittmann (known for the brand 'Marke Odd') in Dresden. Featuring a 6 Pf postage stamp (Mi.569) issued to commemorate 'Hero Memorial Day for Soldier Killed in the First World War'. Ref: 19.03.1935
The correspondence reads, 'I expect to have a need for regulation uniform caps for technical emergency aid in the near future. Please send me an offer by return of post if possible.' (Note on the 'Technische Nothilfe' (TN); During the Nazi era, the TN concentrated on the technical service (to eliminate emergencies in vital operations) and the air raid service, and was also available for disaster protection . As part of the air raid and security and relief services, the TN provided the units of the LS repair service. From 1936, the Reich Office of the TN was transferred to the jurisdiction of the Main Office of the Order Police of the Office of the Reichsführer SS and Chief of the German Police in the Reich Ministry of the Interior.) Source: Wikipedia
Mi.569 - 570
Hero Memorial Day for Soldiers Killed in the First World War
Notes: Engraving: Hans Schweitzer. Photogravure printing. Sheets 10 x 10. Swastika watermark. Perf. 14. Quantity issued: unknown. Valid until 31.12.1936
Hans Schweitzer
Hans Schweitzer (1901-1980), known as Mjölnir, or Mjoelnir was an artist who produced many posters for the Nazi Party (NSDAP) under Adolf Hitler. In Teutonic mythology, Mjölnir is the name of Thor's hammer. He was recruited to produce Nazi propaganda posters by Joseph Goebbels. The posters depicted crude but memorable caricatures of the NSDAP's opponents. A recurring image was of a Sturmabteilung (SA) member side by side with a Heer soldier. Schweitzer was named a professor in 1937, and was named 'Reich Commissioner for Artistic Design' and chairman of the Reich Committee of Press Illustrators. After the war, Schweitzer remained in the western occupation zone. In the course of denazification, Schweitzer was fined 500 Deutschemarks in Hamburg-Bergedorf. He was boycotted as 'Goebbels' illustrator', but nonetheless found work designing posters for West German federal press and information office and as an illustrator in the far-right press.
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