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Third Reich 'Adolf Hitler' Cigarette Card Sets by Cigaretten-Bilderdienst, Hamburg-Bahrenfeld - A set of cigarette card packets from the 'Adolf Hitler' picture series issued by Cigaretten-Bilderdienst, Hamburg-Bahrenfeld, published as part of Werk 13/15. The printed paper packets identify Bilder-Gruppe 64 and Bilder-Gruppe 67, each listing the card numbers contained within, along with instructions for ordering the companion album. The cards themselves are black and white photographic reproductions depicting Adolf Hitler in various settings, including formal indoor scenes with other officials and a solitary portrait with a laurel wreath motif in the background. These cigarette card collections were a widespread form of mass-market propaganda and popular collecting culture in 1930s Germany, distributed by tobacco companies to encourage brand loyalty while promoting the image of the Nazi leadership through collectible albums assembled by consumers. Cigarette card albums of this kind were a major vehicle of everyday Nazi propaganda in the 1930s, using a well-established European collecting hobby to normalise and popularise the Hitler cult across German households. Firms such as Cigaretten-Bilderdienst issued individual photographic cards in small packets that purchasers pasted into subscription albums, blending commercial marketing with state-sanctioned image-building. Series depicting Hitler in official, ceremonial, and staged 'human' settings served to construct a carefully curated public persona, reinforcing his leadership cult among ordinary consumers rather than through overtly political channels. Such sets survive today as documents of the mass-media apparatus that supported the regime's propaganda efforts.