Germany

  • National Socialist Allegory of Music

    National Socialist Allegory of Music

    A Third Reich era print by Richard Klein paying homage to the idea of music and its genius. Head with wings and National Socialist party insignia on forehead, golden lyre behind it, set against a celestial backdrop, signifying the timeless, immaterial and elevated nature of music.

  • NSDAP Hermannsburg Anniversary Trophy

    NSDAP Hermannsburg Anniversary Trophy

    A commemorative 1939 Nazi Party trophy donated by the municipality of Hermannsburg. Bears the famous Nazi slogan “Ein Reich, Ein Volk, Ein Führer” on the obverse, with a dedication inscribed on the reverse.

  • Reich Chancellery Eagle

    Reich Chancellery Eagle

    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.

  • Reich Sports Week

    Reich Sports Week

    An illustration of a cohort of German athletes participating in the Reich Sports Week. The Nazi regime placed great emphasis on the physical fitness of its people, seeing sports as a means to harden spirits of its people and make them feel they were part of a wider national purpose.

  • Reichsadler with Slogan

    Reichsadler with Slogan

    A large, imposing, period bronze eagle set on a marble base embossed with the slogan “Ein Volk! Ein Reich! Ein Führer!” (One People! One Empire! One Leader!) referring to the spiritual unity of Germany through blood, soil and the Führer.

  • Reichsbahn Eagle

    Reichsbahn Eagle

    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.

  • SS Grouping

    SS Grouping

    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.

  • Stylized Reichsadler

    Stylized Reichsadler

    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.

  • The New Europe is Undefeatable

    The New Europe is Undefeatable

    Detailed cartographical propaganda poster from 1942, presenting ‘Fortress Europe’ and its immediate geostrategic situation in a favorable light. The poster presents Germany’s somewhat precarious hold over the European continent as an impenetrable bastion – a sentiment shared by many high-ranking Nazi officials at the time. Despite such optimistic beliefs and their leaders best efforts, the…

  • The Völkisch Bloc

    The Völkisch Bloc

    The Völkisch movement was a Pan-Germanic ethnonationalist and spiritual movement that flourished during the interwar period. Poster calling for an pre-electoral assembly that was held jusy two days after Hitler’s sentencing in 1924.

  • Und Du?

    Und Du?

    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.