Amazing, original Nachlass / estate lot from sailor aboard the German WWII Schlachtschiff / Battleship Bismarck, FPN16287, from its christening/construction phase to its maiden (and final) voyage. The best piece is doubtless the cover from the day of departure on it's first/last battle cruise, but every cover is a Feldpost from the ship, with contents, sent home to the sailor's wife. Quite a find -- I was astonished that after over 80 years one of these collections could turn up intact. Adding to the collection of 21 Feldpost are two 1941 mourning cards sent to the widow.

Nuernberg Reichsparteitag / Nuremberg Nazi Party Rally Day propaganda card. Scarce 1933 Hoffmann Nr3 Rally Real Photo RPPC with inset portrait below scene of the Imperial Castle.

Nuernberg Reichsparteitag / Nuremberg Nazi Party Rally Day propaganda card, used day after Rally's end in Fuerth (Nuernberg suburb) . Scarce 1933 Hoffmann Nr6 Rally Real Photo RPPC with inset oval portrait of the corporal above the Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady) and medieval Golden Fountain in the main square.

Scarce Real Photo Postcard RPPC of Erhard Auer, leader of the SPD in Munich during the German Revolution. Fleeing Germany with the overthrow of the government, only to return later, he was imprisoned by the NSDAP and died in Dauchau in 1945.

Scarce Real Photo Postcard RPPC of the Kurt Eisner memorial on the site of his assassination in Munich. Kurt Eisner, Prime Minister of the short-lived Communist Republic of Bavaria, murdered by Graf Anton Arco Valley on Feb 21, 1919. Slightly worn, excellent condition.

Scarce Real Photo Postcard RPPC of the 1920 Kurt Eisner memorial on the year after his assassination. Kurt Eisner, Prime Minister of the short-lived Communist Republic of Bavaria, was murdered by Graf Anton Arco Valley on Feb 21, 1919. Slightly worn, excellent condition.

A photograph of Communists / Red Guard marching on the streets of Munich in 1919, during the violent Strassenkampf or 'street battles' that took place between the left wing Spartakists / communists and the center-right (Socialists, Imperialists, and Freikorps in an uneasy alliance). Top condition.

A Real Photo Postcard (RPPC) photograph of Freikorps in Munich (Stachus) during the violent Strassenkampf or 'street battles' that took place between the left wing Spartakists / Communists and the center-right (Socialists, Imperialists, and Freikorps in an uneasy alliance) as both sides attempted to seize power. After early Communist victories the Socialist-Right Wing coalition (led by Friedrich Ebert) eventually won. Later, though, many of those same Freikorps soldiers turned on the Republic they helped found, yet despised, and joined the SA, where their street muscle was used by a certain Austrian corporal to propel himself into power.

A Real Photo Postcard (RPPC) photograph of the destruction at the Morhaeser Brewery in Munich during the violent Strassenkampf or 'street battles' that took place between the left wing Spartakists / Communists and the center-right (Socialists, Imperialists, and Freikorps in an uneasy alliance) as both sides attempted to seize power. After early Communist victories the Socialist-Right Wing coalition (led by Friedrich Ebert) eventually won. Later, though, many of those same Freikorps soldiers turned on the Republic they helped found, yet despised, and joined the SA, where their street muscle was used by a certain Austrian corporal to propel himself into power.

Real Photo showing wrecked airplane, crashed in the May 1, 1919 battle between Communist / Spartakist insurgents and the right-wing Freikorps.

motorgeschuetz am Sindlingertor: Original Real Photo RPPC from the 'Strassenkaempfe' or street-battles in Munich following the Kaiser's abdication in 1918, the Sailor's Revolt in Wilhelmshaven in November of that same year, and the subsequent Communist revolutions / right-wing counter-revolutions. Slightly worn, excellent condition, as per scans.

Original Real Photo RPPC of Freikorps soldier in uniform with private unit collar insignia. From the 'Strassenkaempfe' or street-battles in Munich following the Kaiser's abdication in 1918, the Sailor's Revolt in Wilhelmshaven in November of that same year, and the subsequent Communist revolutions / right-wing counter-revolutions (esp 1919, and the 1920 Kapp Putsch), culminating in the failed Beer Hall Putsch of 1923. Slightly worn, good condition.

Original Real Photo RPPC of Freikorps soldier in uniform with private unit collar insignia. From the 'Strassenkaempfe' or street-battles in Munich following the Kaiser's abdication in 1918, the Sailor's Revolt in Wilhelmshaven in November of that same year, and the subsequent Communist revolutions / right-wing counter-revolutions (esp 1919, and the 1920 Kapp Putsch), culminating in the failed Beer Hall Putsch of 1923. Slightly worn, good condition.

German cover sent from child in rhe Kinder-Land-Verschickung (KLV) Lager system cared for German children and tried to keep them out of harms way during WWII. Slightly worn, excellent condition, as per scans.

German cover sent from child in rhe Kinder-Land-Verschickung (KLV) Lager system cared for German children and tried to keep them out of harms way during WWII. Slightly worn, roughly opened reverse, as per scans.