"Germany Awakens" - the most popular card album of the German Reich - complete Album. Berlin, 1933

"Germany Awakens" - the most popular card album of the German Reich - complete Album. Berlin, 1933

Deutschland Erwacht - 'Germany is waking up'. The most popular card album during the years of Reich rule, documenting the rise of the Nazi party in Germany. Published by Cigaretten-Bilderdienst Hamburg-Bahrenfeld. In the propaganda album, 225 cards - Color and black-and-white photographs documenting the rising power of the party in its early years, including the large panoramic photograph (110 cm) at the end of the album - a photograph of the party conference in the year the album was released - Nuremberg 1933, Hardcover with the original Dust jacket! all complete. Many colored cards! 

The album reviews the rise of the Nazi Party (NSDAP - Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei) from its inception in 1920 when it numbered only 3,000 members, and during the 1920s - the years in which Hitler established his status as a talented orator to a growing audience, to the seizure of power By the Nazi Party in 1933. The album contains dramatic descriptions written by the Nazi Party's propaganda system, which used various elements that attracted public attention, and focuses on both the rise of the Führer and the German public's sympathetic response to the Nazi party and everything it represents - flags, street parades Masses, symbols, orchestras, folk singing, Hitler youth, and other means for the Fellowship members. The album greatly influenced the German youth who were exposed to it in the teens of their lives, and then served the idea themselves while they were SS soldiers during World War II.

The album and its photographs were edited by Heinrich Hoffman - the official photographer of the Nazi party and the personal photographer of Adolf Hitler, and the cards to complete it were distributed in packs of cigarettes in sequels. From the historical documents that reflect well the rise of power of the Nazi Party in the years when Europe still did not know its power and the magnitude of its destructiveness.

The album also appears in the permanent exhibition the "Photography during the Holocaust" exhibition at the Yad Vashem Museum in Jerusalem.

Literature: 'Flashes of Memory' - Photography during the Holocaust Published by Yad Vashem 2018.

152 p, 32 cm, complete album. 225 cards - various sizes (some large over half a page) + a large panoramic photograph of the Nazi party conference in Nuremberg in 1933 - 110x31 cm. Original cover with gilt inscription. Original Dust jacket. Slight bending to cover. Good - very good condition.