• Note: The Reichsadler, or National Eagle, was originally intended to face the right when used as a national symbol, and to the left when used for a NSDAP symbol, but somewhere along the line, they abandoned this concept, as you will see below.

    [Below: A rare selection of ID books.]

    [Below: Postcard of the German Hall in Berlin.]

    [Below: Postcard reverse.]

    [Below: Postcard.]

    [Below: An award certificate for swimming.]

    [Below: Magnificent gateway.]

    [Below: A first class shooting award certificate for outstanding marksmanship, 1940.]

    [Below: Some old timers share a beer, or two, or three, or four...]

    [Below: Ok you will have to be patient for a moment before I show you this eagle. This is the cover of a magazine called 'Der Aufbau' (The Structure).]

    [Below: This shows a Strength Through Joy cruise, a program ensuring every worker got a paid vacation every year, something completely revolutionary.]

    [Below: A few eagles...]

    [Below: A rarely seen eagle holding the DAF (German Worker's Front) cogwheel.]

    [Below: Commemorative silver plate from Yule Fest, 1939.]

    [Below: An RLB (Reich Air Protection) looking for donations. Those cans are very neat looking and pretty rare.]

    [Below: 1941 calendar from the Völkischer Beobachter newspaper.]

    [Below: I wish I knew where these places were located.]

    [Below: You just can't get much better than this.]

    [Below: Unreal that mere men could build such wonders.]

    [Below: Even their chocolate tins were cool!]

    [Below: Red Cross chocolate tin, front/back.]

    [Below: An award certificate for an 'Iron and Metal' competition group of a vocational competition of German youth, 1937.]

    [Below: Everything they touched turned to gold. This is a mere 1938 auto show...]

    [Below: Close-up.]

    [Below: Book cover with a strange eagle.]

    [Below: 1944 colonial themed envelope postmarked in Innsbruck.]

    [Below: I like how they put the wreath around the eagle's head.]

    [Below: This is the gate I want leading into my yard.]

    [Below: An interesting view from behind the Nuremberg eagle.]

    [Below: A tinnie from the German Rundfunk (broadcasting), 1935.]

    [Below: The 'Aviso Grille' which Adolf Hitler used during his Kriegsmarine fleet visits. This is from a cigarette card album.]

    [Below: Reverse.]

    [Below: A stamp sheet from the General Government (Poland).]

    [Below: Close-up.]

    [Below: This says 'Command of Warsaw Airport Area'.]

    [Below: This heavy steel award, the size of a small dinner plate, is an award for miners.]

    [Below: Close-up.]

    [Below: Extraordinary embroidered banners.]

    [Below: This is a tinnie, note the little eagles beneath the large eagle's wings.]

    [Below: Hitler Youth book cover.]

    [Below: This is the cover of a law magazine.]

    [Below: This is from the National Socialist Party of Chile.]

    [Below: This says 'Anti-aircraft battery, Heiligensee'. Everything looks so clean and perfect.]

    [Below: Close-up.]

    p> [Below: This postcard was sent Feldpost in April 1942. A cool and interesting eagle design.]

    [Below: Close-up.]

    [Below: A very cool pressed leather 'tinnie'.]

    [Below: This beautiful tapestry is in prison for hanging out with a bear at a concentration camp...]

    [Below: This book features a bizarre eagle, it's called 'More Courage to Live'.]

    [Below: A member of the SS-Helferinnenkorps.]

    [Below: An inner page of a book from 1941 showing a Kriegsmarine eagle.]

    [Below: Close-up.]

    [Below: This not only features a very neat eagle, but has a very inspiring poem. It says:

    'You should believe in Germany's future, in your people's resurrection.
    Don't let this faith be stolen from you despite everything, everything that has happened.'
    And you should act as if the fate of German affairs depended solely on you and your actions, and the responsibility lay with you.    .]

    [Below: Close-up.]

    [Below: A page from a newspaper. This eagle is from the master sculpture Josef Thorak.]

    [Below: This magnificent folder housed a document from Max Amann. Amann was the head of 'Eher Verlag' (Eher Publishing), the official NSDAP publishing house. He was also the Reichsleiter for the press and an SS-Gruppenführer.]

    [Below: Close-up.]

    [Below: Max Amann.]

    [Below: Huge rally of the NSKK (Nationalsozialistisches Kraftfahrkorps, National Socialist Motor Corps), at which Rudolf Hess gave a speech, which took place in the Deutschlandhalle, Berlin, 1936.]

    [Below: Tapestry of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht.]

    [Below: Wow, look at all those swastikas!]

    [Below: This is from a book.]

    [Below: Absolutely awesome. The future was when? The future was then!]

    [Below: This is a patch from a political athletic shirt.]

    [Below: Robert Ley adressing German youths in a speech at the first educational competition, 1943.]

    [Below: A first place sports award plaque from 1938.]

    [Below: It's amazing they could create such massive works of art.]

    [Below: This is a field marshal's flag.]

    [Below: And finally... the grandest, strongest eagle of them all! Haha...]

    [Below: Close-up.]

    [Below: Here's another one for ya. This postcard has a special cancel for the Sixth World Poultry Congress in Leipzig, 1936.]

    [Below: Close-up.]

    [Below: Here's another rooster cancel for your collection.]

    [Below: It says 'Dresdener Jahres Schau Juni - September 1935 Der Rotehahn Feuerschutz u. Rettungswesen' (Dresden Annual Show June - September 1935 The Red Rooster Fire Protection and Rescue Services).]

    [Below: Here are some pigeons to keep the roosters company.]

    [Below: Close-up.]

    [Below: And everyone loves seagulls! This is from Zingst, Germany, 'The East Sea bath resort with the ideal beach'.]