Аукцион Bidspirit | Set of Third Reich Willrich-Style

Set of Third Reich Willrich-Style Propaganda Portrait Postcards - A set of German WWII-era printed postcards featuring portrait illustrations of military figures, including officers and U-boat crew, rendered in pencil and colored-crayon style artwork. Each card bears printed captions and a facsimile signature within the image area, with the reverse sides carrying printed publisher text, an eagle device, and divided space for correspondence and postage. One card depicts a figure identifiable as a senior political leader in civilian dress; others show men in naval leathers, field caps, and an Iron Cross displayed at the collar, consistent with wartime portrait card series produced for public distribution. Such illustrated postcards were part of a broader wartime propaganda effort, using stylized artwork of military personalities to bolster morale and public recognition of notable figures within the armed forces. Wolfgang Willrich was a German artist whose idealized pencil-and-crayon portraits of Wehrmacht, Kriegsmarine, and Luftwaffe personnel were widely reproduced as postcards and in the illustrated volume ”Die Soldaten des Führers” during the Third Reich. These images served explicit racial and propagandistic aims, presenting selected servicemen—often U-boat crews and decorated officers—as exemplars of the regime's ideal ”Nordic” soldier type, and were distributed to cultivate public admiration for military figures and reinforce Nazi ideology on the home front. Cards depicting political leaders alongside military subjects reflect the blending of state and military cult-of-personality imagery common in wartime German visual propaganda.