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German 1939 ”50th Birthday of the Fuehrer” Commemorative Postcard with Special Postmark - A commemorative card produced for the fiftieth birthday of the German head of state, dated 1889-1939, bordered with vignette illustrations of German cities and towns including Berlin, Muenchen, Wien, Nuernberg, Braunau, Eger, Saarbruecken, and Memel, each captioned in banner form. Affixed to the card is a 12+38 Reichspost stamp inscribed ”Der Fuehrer in seiner Geburtsstadt Braunau D-9-36”, depicting an architectural scene with a right-facing portrait bust, cancelled with a special postmark reading ”Deutsche Wehrfreiheit, 20.4.1939, 50. Geburtstag des Fuehrers, Reichshauptstadt”. The blank reverse of the card is plain card stock. Cards of this type were issued commemoratively to mark the state-organized celebrations surrounding the fiftieth birthday of the German leader in April 1939, combining postal ephemera with propagandistic imagery of significant Germanic cities and annexed or symbolically important territories. Adolf Hitler's fiftieth birthday on 20 April 1939 was marked by extensive state-orchestrated celebrations across Germany, including a large military parade in Berlin intended to project the regime's power on the eve of the Second World War. The cities depicted on the cardamong them Vienna and Memel, both incorporated into the Reich through the 1938 Anschluss and the 1939 annexation of the Memel Territory respectively, and Braunau am Inn, Hitler's birthplacereflected the regime's territorial expansion and its propaganda narrative linking Hitler's personal biography to the wider project of German unification. Such commemorative postal items, produced with special cancellations for the occasion, formed part of the broader public celebration campaign coordinated by Nazi state and party organs.