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This Nazi pin-up poster is unusual in portraying a scantily-clad girl against the National Flag of the Third Reich. German Fascist art forbade 'degenerate' art forms (Entartete Kunst) and generally promoted art that was 'heroic and Germanic'.<br/><br/> Women were more usually portrayed as mothers or patriotic workers, Romantic themes were permitted, but generally not erotic.
If this is indeed a Nazi pin-up poster, then it is unusual in portraying a scantily-clad woman wearing a swastika armband against the National Flag of the Third Reich. German Fascist art forbade 'degenerate' art forms (Entartete Kunst) and generally promoted art that was 'heroic and Germanic'. Women were generally portrayed as mothers or patriotic workers, Romantic themes were permitted, but generally not erotic.<br/><br/> Might this be an example of British or American propaganda poster art encouraging the German soldier to think about returning home?
Third Reich (Nazi) German travel pass issued on January 10, 1939, to Walter Otto Israel Loebinger, a German Jew. The document shows Loebinger travelled to Shanghai by sea by way of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and Hong Kong. The story has a happy ending with - amazingly - an Israeli entry stamp, in Hebrew, on a Nazi travel document, dated 12 November 1950, two years after the creation of the state of Israel.
Third Reich (Nazi) German travel pass issued on January 10, 1939, to Walter Otto Israel Loebinger, a German Jew. The docuemnt shows Loebinger travelled to Shanghai by sea by way of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and Hong Kong. The story has a happy ending with - amazingly - an Israeli entry stamp, in Hebrew, on a Nazi travel document, dated 12 November 1950, two years after the creation of the state of Israel.
A Star of David, often yellow-colored, was used by the Nazis during the Holocaust as a method of identifying Jews. After the German invasion of Poland in 1939 there were initially different local decrees forcing Jews to wear a distinct sign – in the General Government e.g. a white armband with a blue Star of David on it, in the Warthegau a yellow badge in the form of a Star of David on the left side of the breast and on the back. If a Jew was found without wearing the star in public, they could be subjected to severe punishment. The requirement to wear the Star of David with the word Jude (German for Jew) inscribed was then extended to all Jews over the age of 6 in the Reich and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (by a decree issued on September 1, 1941 signed by Reinhard Heydrich) and was gradually introduced in other German-occupied areas.