Nazi Postcards

Background: The Nazis liked the visual, and postcards were cheap and vivid ways of getting the message across. The variety of Nazi postcards is enormous. Here are examples of only a few. Click on the thumbnails for a larger view.

Nuremberg 1933 This 1933 Nuremberg Rally card puts Hitler in the center. Julius Streicher, the notorious Jew-Baiter, is to his left. One of the reasons the Nazis chose Nuremberg as the site of their party rallies was the city's past. The Nazi Party itself was new, but connecting it with Nuremberg made it part of the flow of the German story.
Nuremberg 1937 This 1937 Nuremberg Rally shows Albert Speer's"Cathedral of Light" effect. Spotlights were placed around the rally grounds pointed up. The effect was apparently stunning. When Speer first proposed the idea, the military opposed it, since it required the use of about every available spotlight. Speer's counter-argument was that if the rest of the world saw such a profligate use of spotlights at the party rally, it would assume Germany had lots of them.
Austria This 1938 postcard celebrates the incorporation of Austria into Germany. The caption reads: "One People, One Reich, One Führer".
Nuremberg 1939 This postcard was produced for the 1939 Nuremberg Party Rally, which was to be the "Party Rally of Peace." It was canceled upon the outbreak of World War II.
Danzig This is a late 1939 postcard proclaiming "Danzig is German." Danzig, now the Polish city of Gdansk, was a free city, separated from Germany as a result of the Treaty of Versailles, until the Nazis recaptured it after invading Poland. The sun peeking through the clouds (on a church) suggests that even the heavens approve of Hitler's conquests.
Mountain Troops This is one of a huge number of postcards with a military theme. It shows a group of mountain troops on maneuvers in the Bavarian Alps.

http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/postcard.htm.