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The album “Deutsche Kolonien” was published by the Cigaretten Bilderdienst Dresden 1936. A beautiful picture album of which the pictures were supplied with cigarette packs. A German nationalist and imperialist document from the year 1936. The album is complete with 72 pages and 270 beautiful colored pictures. The album contains an extensive twenty-five page description with many maps of the German colonies before 1918 (World War I) in German East Africa, German Southwest Africa, Cameroon, Togo, parts of China and some possessions in the Pacific Ocean. In addition, a "Kolonial-Ehrentafel" with, among others, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and almost fifty pages with 270 colored pictures with descriptions, maps and background drawings. The intention of this album, released in the time of the Third Reich, is clear. Germany wants to regain its colonies, which it lost through the Peace of Versailles on June 28, 1919.
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