Historical Collection

Original Geheimes Staatspolizeiamt circular dated Berlin, 5 January 1937, addressed to the heads of all Staatspolizeistellen, forwarding guidelines of the Reichsführer-SS and Chief of the German Police, with the handwritten signature of Reinhard Heydrich. Filing holes and office stamp.

Original 1938 Gau Essen Wochenspruch der NSDAP poster quoting Rudolf Hess, personally signed in ink and dated 1 July 1938. An unusual pre-war autograph and propaganda-document crossover piece.

SA-Gruppe Hochland 1939 competition award plaque, reverse inscribed “Dem 1. Sieger” (to the first winner) and marked RZM M3/41. Gold-finished zinc, edelweiss and vertical sword with the date 1939. The rear fitting is missing.

Original 4×6 portrait photograph of Simon Wiesenthal, credited to Kjartan Bjelland and hand-signed across the lower margin. A historically significant autograph connected with Holocaust remembrance and postwar justice.

Original Third Reich Arbeitsbuch for a German worker, with period employment entries, Arbeitsamt stamps and the original Merkblatt für Arbeitsbuchinhaber und Betriebsführer. Mid-1930s civil labour document.

Original Third Reich Arbeitsbuch issued by Arbeitsamt Rheine in 1940 to Rosa Höltermann of Emsdetten, with complete personal details, official stamps and agricultural self-employment entry.

Four original Third Reich tax documents from Bavaria, 1937, including ministry correspondence, Nuremberg tax notices, official stamps and a Reich service-postage card relating to house-tax matters in Stein bei Nürnberg.

Original September 1936 issue of Volk und Rasse, published in Munich during the Berlin Olympic year, together with an original Es leben die Soldaten Luftwaffe song sheet, Folge 31. Two original period publications offered for historical collecting.

Original Völkischer Beobachter, Berlin edition no. 339, Friday 5 December 1941, two days before Pearl Harbor, headlined “Ickes schreit nach einem neuen Gewaltdiktat”, with a photograph of Göring and Marshal Pétain and reports on the Channel, Tobruk, North Africa, Finland and Bulgaria.

Original Völkischer Beobachter, Berlin edition no. 291, Saturday 18 October 1941, headlined “Wie Odessa von den Bolschewiken im Chaos verlassen wurde”, with a front map of the Eastern Front, Black Sea reports, front photographs and news of General Tojo’s new cabinet in Japan.

Original Völkischer Beobachter, Berlin edition, Thursday 23 October 1941, headlined “Kriegshetze in Gangstertonart” on Roosevelt, Cordell Hull and the Neutrality Acts, with a photograph of Slovak President Jozef Tiso received by Hitler, and interior reports on Moscow, Kaluga and captured Soviet rocket artillery.

Original Völkischer Beobachter, Berlin edition, Sunday 9 November 1941, headlined “Der Führer zerstört die Wunschträume des Feindes”, with the Munich 9 November commemoration, Eastern Front, Luftwaffe and U-boat reports, an Oak Leaves award photograph and the article “Von Wilna zum ‘Tor von Moskau’”.

Four original period documents for Reichsbahn employee Eduard Weber, 1934–1941, including a 1941 promotion certificate with an original Walter Bürger signature, plus two clearly identified facsimile signatures and a 1934 award certificate.

Original Übertragungsverfügung (order of assignment) dated Berlin, 14 May 1938, from the Chief of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, assigning Amtmann Max Nüske to a post at the Reichskriegsgericht from 1 May 1938, signed in ink by Wilhelm Keitel.

Collector-made reproduction of the German Wound Badge 1939 in Black, 2nd Pattern. Full-size 44 × 36 mm badge with hollow-style reverse and vertical pin. Clearly offered as a reproduction, not a wartime original.

German 25 Year Faithful Service Cross (Treudienst-Ehrenzeichen für 25 Jahre) with dark blue ribbon and red presentation case marked “25”, the interior labelled C.F. Zimmermann, Pforzheim. A complete set of this civil long-service decoration.

Original German Arbeitsbuch issued to Georg Ziegler, with handwritten personal details, employment records and period administrative markings. Civil labour documentation from Nazi Germany and the WWII era.

Original WWII German Arbeitsbuch issued under the 1935 employment-record system, with handwritten owner details and multiple employment entries, including later postwar use. Authentic period document.

Original German Arbeitsbuch issued to Werner Schmidt in 1938 by the Arbeitsamt Ludwigshafen, Speyer branch, with handwritten personal details, vocational information and period official stamps.

Original WWII German document archive containing a large assortment of identification papers, administrative documents, ration and insurance cards, correspondence and wartime material. Highlights include a 1943 Wehrmacht training certificate, 1938 Third Reich correspondence, wartime stamped documents, original dust goggles in their cardboard sleeve, and a bilingual German-Russian occupation identity card dated August 1945. The wider archive spans approximately 1908–1967.

Original WWII German document collection comprising 10 period documents from a Saxon family, spanning 1909–1963 and centred on the Third Reich and Second World War era. Highlights include a 1936 Deutsches Reich passport with photographs, Deutsche Arbeitsfront membership book with contribution stamps, Arbeitsbuch records, wartime clothing documentation, photographic identification papers and associated post-war documents. A coherent historical archive from Schmalzgrube and Annaberg in Saxony.