Cigarette card depicting Hitler at Nazi Party headquarters in Munich

Object | Accession Number: 2005.315.15

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Cigarette card depicting Hitler at Nazi Party headquarters in Munich

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Series Title: Kampf um's Dritte Reich (Struggle for the Third Reich)
Date: publication/distribution: approximately 1933
Geography: depiction: Braune Haus; Munich (Germany)
Language: German
Classification: Information Forms
Category: Cards
Object Type: Cigarette cards (lcsh)
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Cathy L. Kobs

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Physical Description: Rectangular paper card with color photographic image, with white border, on front and German text on back. Image of Hitler in tuxedo standing with 7 men in lederhosen. On back top is leafy bough with circle with letters in center.
Dimensions: overall: Height: 1.880 inches (4.775 cm) | Width: 2.440 inches (6.198 cm)
Materials: overall : paper, ink
Markings: back, in black text : Kampf / um’s Dritte Reich / Bild 223 / Kärntner Bauern / beim Kanzler / Braune Hauś / Diefe Bilder liegen in den Paßungen / unserer Bulgaria = gport = Zigaretten / Gammelalben für die 273 Bilder find gegen Boreinfendung von RM 1.- / durch unś oder durch jeden handler / erhältlich / BULGARIA / ZIGARETTENFABRIK G.M.B.H / DRESDEN-A. 21
Contributor: Distributor: Bulgaria Zigarettenfabrik G.M.B.H
Subject: Herbert H. Kobs
Biography: Herbert Kobs was born on May 15, 1924, in Dane, Wisconiosn. He enlisted in the United States Army on January 18, 1943. He was posted to the Pacific theater, where part of his duties included serving as a guard for General Douglas MacArthur. He was demobilized on December 31, 1945. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1950. He married Alice Hafemeister and they had two daughters. Kobs spent most of his career as a high school history teacher and guidance counselor at Burlington High School in Burlington, Wisconsin. He died at age 57, in July 1981.
Topical Term: Nazi propaganda.
Personal Name: Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945--Homes & haunts--Germany--Munich.
Corporate Name: Nazi Party
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: The cigarette card was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2005 by Cathy Kobs, the daughter of Herbert Kobs.
Conditions on Access: No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use: No restrictions on use
: Record last modified: 2023-08-07 10:41:14
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