[Below: This small card says 'Night Holiday Ticket - valid until 11 p.m.' The line crossed out says 'for the night of', and below it is says 'permanently'. Hmm... a permanent holiday? The reverse is blank.]
[Below: This tiny card, smaller than a business card, says 'The holder of this card is entitled to travel outside of these hours to the 2nd Student Company, Fighter Pilot School'.]
[Below: Reverse.]
[Below: This is interesting, it's something that should have been thrown in the trash, but somehow survived its death sentence. This is a receipt for a set of 1942 Adolf Hitler birthday postage stamps from the Bohemia and Moravia (Czechoslovakia) post office. They were ordered on April 21, 1942 (the day after Adolf Hitler's birthday) from someone in Nuremberg. Kinda strangely the post office has a little stamp prepared for the postage stamp, as you can see on the order list, 'Geburtstag des Führers' (Birthday of the Führer). Sixty stamps were ordered.]
[Below: The set of 1942 stamps ordered.]
[Below: This is an insurance document from Hamburg that was folded into an envelope that was postmarked on July 11, 1944. I was curious about the stamps used to seal it, so I reconstructed and translated them below.]
[Below: Close-up. This says 'Incapacity for work must be reported to the health insurance company within 3 days, otherwise there is no entitlement to sick pay!']
[Below: This is a 'Call-up order' from December 10, 1937.]
[Below: Reverse.]
[Below: Front/reverse. This is a receipt from a soldier sending 50 marks home, January 13, 1943. It says 'Einlieferungsschein' (mailing slip). The reverse says 'Delivery slip - Please do not use for messages to the recipient'. Based upon his Feldpost number we can see he belonged to the 'Stab I u. 1.-4. Kompanie Grenadier-Regiment 746'.]
[Below: Front/reverse. Another receipt from a soldier sending 36 marks home, October 18, 1943. It says 'Eingezahltam' (paid slip). Based upon his Feldpost number we can see he belonged to the 'Stab Pionier-Bataillon 227'.]
[Below: Front - German. This is a 'Flight Announcement' form that a soldier used to write home. Dated September 2, 1944.]
[Below: Front - English.]
[Below: Reverse - German.]
[Below: Reverse - English.]
[Below: These are unissued tracking or registration index cards for a youth member of the Flieger-HJ (Fl.HJ.), the aviation branch of the Hitler Youth. These cards were designed to track the specialized pre-military aviation training, glider certification, and logistical records of a single youth leader or member. Card #1 - front.]
[Below: Card #1 - reverse.]
[Below: The font is slightly different on this card. Card #2 - front.]
[Below: Card #2 - reverse.]
[Below: This is a membership dues collection notice sent to an association member in National Socialist Germany, dated July 22, 1933, from Darmstadt. The document outlines tiered annual membership fees (Verbandsbeitrag) for a professional association or union (referred to as Kollegen, meaning colleagues). On the top left, in purple, it says '• Verband der nationalsozialistischen Oberen Vermessungs-Beamten in Hessen' (Association of National Socialist Senior Surveying Officials in Hesse.) The brown paper is an official post office receipt confirming that the membership fee was paid and was securely sent through the mail. It is called a 'Einlieferungsschein' (deposit receipt).]
[Below: Close-up. Note that the address is Schlageter Street, named after the early National Socialist martyr, Albert Leo Schlageter.]
[Below: Brown slip of paper lifted up.]
[Below: This small card is an official award certificate (Besitzzeugnis) for a Hitler Youth proficiency badge, awarded on August 23, 1942, just one day before the recipient's 17th birthday. Issued by the 'Der Jugendführer des Deutschen Reichs' (The Youth Leader of the German Reich—Axmann). Note that Axmann's embossed facsimile signature is lightly impressed above the title.]
