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  • 27-07-2010 11:09pm
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    Degsy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭


    I have a number of these cards featuring Adolf Hitler in one form or another..just wndering what exactly they are.Somebody told me the smaller ones were cigarette cards but the larger ones are 6x4 inches so they wont fit in a packet of fags!
    I've enclosed pics and if anybody could translate the german text it would be great.

    http://img686.imageshack.us/g/kalamata089.jpg/


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    danpatjoe
    Registered Users Posts: 436 ✭✭danpatjoe


    Hi Degsy,

    I believe they are cards from the 'Adolf Hitler' cigarette album. I know that photograph definitely appears in it anyway.
    As far as I know, these photos were not actually included with the cigarettes, but rather coupons could be collected and used to purchase the photographs to stick into the albums. (I may be wrong on this, but I'm sure someone here will set me straight).

    Regards - Dan


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    Morlar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,273 ✭✭✭Morlar


    That sounds about right. I have a few of these kinds of pictures too (not the exact ones)

    http://www.militaria-archive.com/DE-Hoffman/index.html

    Here is a link to a couple of the full and intact cigarette picture albums (not the exact ones these come from but of a similair kind) currently on sale :

    http://www.wehrmacht-awards.com/forums/showthread.php?t=451110

    I have seen those same ones as in the link on sale at fairs in Ireland for between €70 - €100.


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