A Third Reich period propaganda cigarette picture album titled Adolf Hitler, published in 1936 by Cigaretten-Bilderdienst, Altona-Bahrenfeld. The volume features orange-textured cloth-covered boards with a white spine, designed to house photographic cards issued with cigarette purchases. The front cover and spine are decorated with gold-embossed Fraktur script reading Adolf Hitler. The spine additionally features a gold-embossed swastika and the number 15 within a circle, indicating its position in the publisher’s series. The interior consists of cream-toned heavy stock paper with printed German text and mounted black and white photographic cards. Visible internal pages include photographs of public speeches, one captioned Vor der Jugend and another Reichsparteitag 1935. The album serves as a primary example of mid-1930s social and political propaganda.
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