The man who brought Hitler to power: how these inconspicuous stamps document the downfall…

Описание: The man who brought Hitler to power: how these inconspicuous stamps document the downfall of democracy.

Welcome to one of the most dramatic phases of upheaval in German history. Before us lies the famous definitive series 'Hindenburg Medallion', a silent witness to the transition from the fragile Weimar Republic to the dictatorship of the Third Reich. A Portrait Between Eras The profile portrait of Reich President Paul von Hindenburg shaped the postal face of Germany in the early 1930s. Hindenburg, the celebrated Field Marshal General of the First World War, became the political pivot when, in 1933, he appointed Adolf Hitler Reich Chancellor. After his death in 1934, these stamps were continued

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