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Tourism poster promoting Germany’s new developments in architecture. Fascist architectural design took inspiration from Ancient Rome and was intended to serve as awe-inspiring references to the great classical world as well as an expression of the regime’s infallible might. Through its synthesis of modernism and classicism, the style sought to articulate a powerful political ethos oriented towards the future yet equally grounded in tradition.
Architecture played a central role in Hitler’s desires to awaken a new national consciousness through reinvigorating German culture. Architectural projects were centered around the cultural life of its citizens, drawing from the Hellenic tradition of the polis as the site of a beautiful or good life. In the Gesamtkunstwerk (total work of art) that is the fascist nation-state, its citizens are not only never far from their spiritual tradition as expressed through architecture, but constitute a part of it.
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Poster by Ottomar Anton depicting the Hindenburg crossing the Atlantic, cleverly juxtaposed with an archaic merchant vessel to emphasize the speed of the new airship.
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Poster commemorating the ascension of National Socialism in 1933, commonly referred to as the National Socialist ‘Revolution’.
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The gilded Parteiadler which once adorned the very entrance to Adolf Hitler’s private living quarters in the Old Reich Chancellery. It is believed that there were only twelve such wall-mounted eagles, with examples today thought to only exist in the Imperial War Museum and Moscow’s Museum of the Great Patriotic War.
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Eagle pulled off a locomotive of the Deutsche Reichsbahn, Nazi Germany’s state-owned railway enterprise. Originally in silver aluminum, these eagles began being coated in matte-black towards the end of the war as anti-aerial camouflage as German air superiority waned. The resulting appearance is a rather menacing and ominous one compared to its early-war silver counterpart. This aesthetic transition is reflective of the regime’s inward repression that only heightened as the war situation continued to deteriorate.
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The Schutzstaffel (SS) was the Third Reich’s preeminent elite paramilitary organization, driven by its fanatical devotion to National Socialism underpinned by a nexus of esoteric, occult and mystical principles. This grouping consists of a black M34 helmet, chained dagger and autographed portrait of Reichsfuhrer-SS Heinrich Himmler, all laid upon the backdrop of a period SS banner.
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Solid bronze desk eagle with outspread wings, head turned to its right. Refined and impactful presentation. Wingspan of 49cm and on a black stone base.
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A recruitment poster c. 1929 for the paramilitary veteran’s organization Der Stahlehm. Eyes obscured by the shadow cast by his helmet, the soldier’s austere gaze is set upon the reader. To the backdrop of the Imperial German tricolor, the reader is posed the simple question of “And you?”, urging Germany’s citizens to do their part for their Fatherland.
