Cigarette card with an image of Adolf Hitler visting General Litzmann on his birthday 2012.68.17 back
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Washington, United States
Cigarette card, Ein alter Kämpfer : Der Führer gratuliert 1934 General Litzmann zum Geburtstag, number 182, Group 67, series 15, Adolf Hitler - Pictures of the Life of the Führer, from about 1936. The card features a black and white photograph of Hitler visiting the aged General Karl Litzmann on his 84th birthday in 1934. Cigarette cards were a popular collectible item in Germany beginning about 1920. Large albums with text, but no pictures, were published for each series and the cards were collected to be added as illustrations. The increasing popularity of the Nazi Party made them a desirable subject for a collectible card series. The album for this series has text and photo captions that tell the story of Hitler's life from his birth in 1899 to his 1933 appointment as Chancellor, and then Fuhrer, of Germany.
Cigarette card, Ein alter Kämpfer : Der Führer gratuliert 1934 General Litzmann zum Geburtstag, number 182, Group 67, series 15, Adolf Hitler - Pictures of the Life of the Führer, from about 1936. The card features a black and white photograph of Hitler visiting the aged General Karl Litzmann on his 84th birthday in 1934. Cigarette cards were a popular collectible item in Germany beginning about 1920. Large albums with text, but no pictures, were published for each series and the cards were collected to be added as illustrations. The increasing popularity of the Nazi Party made them a desirable subject for a collectible card series. The album for this series has text and photo captions that tell the story of Hitler's life from his birth in 1899 to his 1933 appointment as Chancellor, and then Fuhrer, of Germany.
- Title: Cigarette card with an image of Adolf Hitler visting General Litzmann on his birthday 2012.68.17 back
- Provenance: The cigarette card was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2012 by Martin Shallow III., The cigarette card was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2012 by Martin Shallow III.
- Subject Keywords: Cigarette cards--Germany. Heads of state--Germany--Pictorial works. Nazi propaganda--Pictorial works., Cigarette cards--Germany. Heads of state--Germany--Pictorial works. Nazi propaganda--Pictorial works.
- Type: Information Forms, Information Forms
- Rights: Permanent Collection, Permanent Collection
- External Link: See the full record at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, See the full record at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Medium: Small, rectangular paper card with a halftone photographic print with white borders treated to look like a glossy photograph. It has an image of Adolf Hitler, bareheaded, and in a uniform with a swastika armband c;asping the hand of an elderly man, General Litzmann, seated in an open top car, with a crowd of people looking on. On the back are the title, image, group, and series number, German fraktur text, with adhesive residue on the corners., Small, rectangular paper card with a halftone photographic print with white borders treated to look like a glossy photograph. It has an image of Adolf Hitler, bareheaded, and in a uniform with a swastika armband c;asping the hand of an elderly man, General Litzmann, seated in an open top car, with a crowd of people looking on. On the back are the title, image, group, and series number, German fraktur text, with adhesive residue on the corners.
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