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Adolf Hitler Propaganda Postcard - A printed photo postcard captioned ”Die beiden Toechter Dr. Goebbels” (”The two daughters of Dr. Goebbels”), showing a uniformed figure wearing a swastika armband bending toward two young girls in white dresses with floral headbands, one holding an object toward him. The reverse carries the printed credit ”Photo Hoffmann, Muenchen, Theresienstr. 7a”, the notation ”Nachdruck verboten” (reproduction forbidden), a number ”728”, and a printed ”Echte Fotografie” stamp box, along with a handwritten price notation. Photo Hoffmann was the official photographic studio of the NSDAP leadership under Heinrich Hoffmann, producing widely distributed postcards depicting party figures in staged domestic and public settings for propaganda and commercial circulation during the 1930s. Heinrich Hoffmann served as Adolf Hitler's official photographer and held a state-sanctioned monopoly on his image, producing vast numbers of postcards intended to cultivate a benign, paternal public persona for Nazi leadership. Joseph Goebbels, as Reich Minister of Propaganda, oversaw the machinery that disseminated such imagery, while his own family life was frequently used in the press to project domestic normalcy. Postcards of this type were sold commercially through the 1930s as part of a broader campaign to humanize the regime's leadership for a mass audience.