Аукцион Bidspirit | German Third Reich Cigarette Card

German Third Reich Cigarette Card Set - ”Bilder-Gruppe 62” for the Adolf Hitler Album - A set of cigarette cards issued as ”Bilder-Gruppe 62,” contained in their original paper packet from Cigaretten-Bilderdienst, Altona-Bahrenfeld. The cards themselves depict a mix of photographic scenes and hand-colored illustrations of German townscapes and architecture, intended for mounting into a corresponding collector's album. These cigarette card series were a widespread promotional format in interwar and Third Reich-era Germany, distributed with tobacco products and collected into themed albums covering historical, cultural, and political subjects. The ”Adolf Hitler” album series compiled photographic and illustrated content across numbered picture groups such as this one, sold to consumers as a collecting and album-building activity of the period. Cigarette card albums were among the most widely distributed forms of mass media in Nazi Germany, with tobacco manufacturers like Cigaretten-Bilderdienst producing themed sets that households across the country collected and pasted into bound albums. The ”Adolf Hitler” album, comprising numerous such picture groups, wove imagery of German towns, architecture, and history into a broader narrative glorifying the regime and its leader, making these seemingly mundane collectibles an effective vehicle for everyday propaganda. Bahrenfeld, near Hamburg, was a notable center for the printing and distribution of such cigarette card series during the 1930s.