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NAZI CIGARETTE COLLECTOR CARD ALBUM ‘GERMAN COLONIES‘

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Deutsche Kolonien is a full-color book with a beautiful embossed cover depicting and describing German colonies around the world which the government of Adolf Hitler still considered to be German in spite of their loss at the end of World War I.

The gorgeous big 9-3/4 x 13-3/4 inch, 72 page album was published in 1936 by Cigaretten Bilderdienst in Dresden and contains all 270 splendid 2 x 2-1/2 inch full-color varnished cigarette cards carefully attached in the appropriate pages on the pages.

The text and the photos cover German colonies in East Africa, South Africa and the South Pacific. There is a competent history of each colony as well as economic, geographic and commercial information. The pictures are especially well-done in this album showing not only the uniforms and facilities of the German colonial troops, but the birds, animals, plants and native populations of the various countries such as German East Africa, German Southwest Africa, Togo, Cameroon, Kaiser-Wilhelmsland (part of German New Guinea), the Bismarck Archipelago, the Salomon Islands and Kiauchau.

This 88 year old Nazi cigarette card album is in very fine condition as the previous owner protected it with a stiff plastic protective cover. The gorgeous deeply embossed cover is in excellent condition, as are the 270 neatly pasted in color pictures. The book has no odor.