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Postcard (12.33) self addressed with commemorative cancel. Ref: 26.11.1938, JB:Mannheim50/524 26th November 1938 1/1 Postcard (12.33) self addressed with commemorative cancel. Ref: 26.11.1938, JB:Mannheim50/524 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Mi.675 (Ref: 08.01.1939) Mi.675-683 (18.11.1938) 1/1 Mi.675 (Ref: 08.01.1939) Mi.676 (Ref: 08.01.1939) Mi.677 (Ref: 08.01.1939) Mi.678 (Ref: 08.01.1939) Mi.679 (Ref: 08.01.1939) Mi.680 (Ref: 28.12.1938) Mi.681 (Ref: 21.02.1939 - 1/74) Mi.682 (Ref: 21.02.1939 - 1/74) Mi.683 (Ref: 08.03.1939) K33 (Mi.677 + Mi.678 inv.) Ref: 13.03.1939 K34 (Mi.675 + Mi.680 inv.) Ref: 11.04.1939 - 4/37 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Official correspondence from the court at Sinzig. Featuring the official court seal to the reverse. Ref: 28.10.1938 28th October 1938 28.10.1938 Sinzig Amtsgericht reverse.jpeg 28.10.1938 Sinzig Amtsgericht reverse.jpeg 1/1 Official correspondence from the court at Sinzig. Featuring the official court seal to the reverse. Ref: 28.10.1938 The Sinzig court correspondence Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

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18th October 1938 1/0 18th October 1938 Sarvar to 27 Queen Square, Bath Dear Madeleine! Many thanks for your letter. I don’t feel like writing at all, so please excuse me if it is going to be a stupid one. Your letter was laying on my writing desk for ages and I have to answer it. We are very busy choosing bridesmaids dresses. Muck and I are going to be bridesmaids a third time. There is a saying here, “Three times a bridesmaid will never make a bride”, I don’t feel frightened about it. My cousin Lucia of Bourbon-Sicile is going to be married to the Duke of Ancona, an Italian, cousin to the King. I am very excited about the wedding as the Italian Crown Prince is to be “best man”. There are a lot of Italians coming to that wedding and I can’t speak Italian except “Buona Notte”, which means “good night”. The wedding is going to be at Nymphenburg Palace again, where Deidi was too. I am looking forward to seeing Baby again at it, and Deidi too. Deidi and her husband are coming here for the shootings in November. Muck and I have got all our winter things now. It is great fun getting things. I always prefer buying things to having them made. You can judge much better trying them on. What have you decided for your evening gown? I have got 5 evening dresses, but you see, I wear the bridesmaids dresses for that too. I have got a wonderful blue woollen suit with a zip down the front. I’m sorry my drawing is so awful. I haven’t been at a dance for ages. During the shooting I want to gather some nice young people and dance. However, most of the young men are soldiers now. I wish they would stop threatening with the war. Here in Hungaria things don’t look very bright. I have given up worrying by now. It’s no use. Its high time for lunch. Fondest love Loll Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

3rd October 1938 1/2 3rd October 1938 Sarvar to 27 Queen Square, Bath Dear Madeleine! Many thanks for your letter. I was so frightened about this war, that I hardly did anything except listen in the whole day long. I can’t understand how people have lived through the last war without a wireless. You don’t know how grateful we all feel toward Chamberlain. He is one of the greatest politicians. I just feel like giving him a kiss for preservation of peace. He is a great favourite with all my family. He ought to get the Order of the Garter. I felt particularly frightened about the war, as Ludwig would have had to go too. Mami wants to go to Bavaria one of these days to meet Baby. Imagine the poor girl is not yet at her new home. Her house is finished but for one pipe and as long as they cant get it, they have no water. I do hope that she has left Luzern by now and is in Lindau. From there she is going to furniture her home. It must be great fun to do it. Well Muck and me spend our lives twiddling our thumbs. Or we fight. The Irvine girl is gone and we have nothing to do. We take Hungarian lessons twice a week. And I sew with my marvellous sewing machine. I sew vest and knickers for the poor. It is very good practice. Deidi is in Mandelieu. I am already looking forward to seeing her during the shootings in November. Her husband is very keen on shooting and they’ll come back for that. The other day we had great fun. We went to see our girl friend who lives 10 miles from here. We took 3 hours to ride there. We had lunch there and she accompanied us back half way. I felt so tied after that! I am late for lunch. Much love Loll Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

18th September 1938 1/0 18th September 1938 Sarvar to 27 Queen Square, Bath Dear Madeleine! Many thanks for your letter. All the English girls are gone. Mhairie Irvine had to go home to Scotland. I liked her very well, she was awfully nice. Aileen is in Poland now. She is to stay in a Sacred Heart convent for the whole of next year. But Polish people seem to be very nice, as far as I have heard and so I hope she will be invited somewhere for her holidays. I do feel quite lonely with only Muck to fight. For we fight the whole day long as we have nothing else to do. Baby is still in Switzerland. Her house is not yet ready. The painting of the rooms seems to take an awful long time. I think she will go to Lindau to furniture her house. It is only 8-10 kilometres from there. Papi and Ludwig are out camping in a hut. It is the time for shooting stags. Papi has already shot two this year. Deidi and her family are back in Cannes. Their Grandmother has just died, she was 86 years old and has 10 children still living, and heaps of grandchildren and great-grandchildren. A cousin of mine has become engaged and I wonder if we are going to her wedding. She has to go to Abyssinia later on, it seems very far doesn’t it? I have got a beautiful sewing machine for my birthday and I want to sew everything for myself now. It is beautiful weather but very cold. Last year this time we seemed to melt from heat. Everybody is very excited about war. But I do hope Chamberlain is able to prevent it. It would be too awful. Lots of love Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Propaganda postcard for the SA 'Wettkämpfe' (contest/competition) in Karlsruhe, 2nd & 3rd July 1938. Ref: 17.09.1938 17th September 1938 1/1 Propaganda postcard for the SA 'Wettkämpfe' (contest/competition) in Karlsruhe, 2nd & 3rd July 1938. Ref: 17.09.1938 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Postcard depicting Adolf Hitler with Hilde and Helga, two daughters of Josef and Magda Goebbels. Ref: 11.09.1938 11th September 1938 Goebbels children 1/1 Postcard depicting Adolf Hitler with Hilde and Helga, two daughters of Josef and Magda Goebbels. Ref: 11.09.1938 Goebbels children The Goebbels children were the five daughters and one son born to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph and Magda Goebbels. The children, born between 1932-1940, were murdered by their parents in Berlin on 1 May 1945, the day both parents committed suicide. Magda Goebbels had an elder son, Harald Quandt, from a previous marriage to Günther Quandt. Harald, then aged 23, was a prisoner of war when his younger half-siblings were killed. There are many theories of how they were killed; one is that Magda Goebbels gave them something 'sweetened' to drink. Currently, the most supported theory is that they were killed with a cyanide capsule. Harald Quant (1921-1967) Magda and Günther Quandt were married on 4th January 1921, and her first child, Harald Quandt, was born on 1st November 1921. Magda and Günther Quandt's marriage ended in divorce in 1929. Magda joined the Nazi Party on 1st September 1930, and did some volunteer work, although she has not been characterised as politically active. From the local branch, she moved to the party headquarters in Berlin and was invited to take charge of Goebbels' own private papers. She and Goebbels first became romantically involved while on a short trip with friends to Weimar, Germany, in February 1931. The couple were married on 19th December 1931, with Hitler as a witness. Harald not only attended his mother's wedding to Goebbels, but also formed quite an attachment with him; sometimes accompanying him to gatherings, standing on the platform near to 'Uncle Joseph', wearing his Hitler Youth uniform. After his appointment as minister, Goebbels demanded that Harald's father release Magda from her obligation under their divorce settlement, to send Harald to live with him in the event of her remarriage; by 1934, Harald moved completely to the Goebbels' household. Harald would later serve as a lieutenant in the Luftwaffe. Harald was Magda's only child to survive the Second World War; he went on to become a leading West German industrialist during the 1950s and 1960s. He died when his personal aircraft crashed in Italy in 1967, and was survived by his wife and five children. Helga Susanne (1932-1945) Born on 1st September 1932. Helga was a 'daddy's girl' who preferred her father to her mother. Goebbels was proud of his eldest daughter and would go straight to her cot as soon as he returned from his office, to take her on his lap. She was reported to have been a lovely baby who never cried and just sat listening uncomprehendingly to the Nazi officials with 'her blue eyes sparkling'. It was not unusual for Hitler, who was fond of German children, to take her on to his own lap while he talked late into the night. She was photographed with Hilde presenting Hitler with flowers on 20th April 1936, his birthday. Postcard depicting Adolf Hitler with Helga Goebbels. The caption reads, 'Kleiner Besuch auf Obersalzberg'. Ref: 30.12.1935 Helga was twelve years old when she was murdered. Bruises found on her body postmortem (mostly on her face) led to wide speculation that she had struggled against receiving a cyanide capsule, which was used to kill her by crushing it between her teeth. Hildegard Traudel (1934-1945) Born on 13th April 1934, Hildegard was commonly called 'Hilde'. In a 1941 diary entry, Joseph referred to her as 'a little mouse'. She was photographed with Helga presenting Hitler with flowers on 20th April 1936, his birthday. Hilde was eleven years old at the time of her murder. Helmut Christian (1935-1945) Born on 2nd October 1935, Helmut was considered sensitive and something of a dreamer. In his diary, Goebbels called him a 'clown'. When his teacher at the Lanke primary school reported, to his father's dismay, that his promotion to a higher form was doubtful, he responded well to intense tutoring from his mother and his governess and achieved promotion to the next grade. He wore braces on his teeth. On 26th April 1945, Helmut repeated to Hitler his father's birthday speech, and responded to Helga's protests that he was copying their father by arguing that, no, their father had copied 'what he said'. On 30th April 1945, the boy was rude to a 15-year-old nurse who tended to the wounded in the bunker complex. The nurse, Johanna Ruf, slapped young Helmut. She did not know the boy was the son of Goebbels until later. Later that day, Hitler's secretary Traudl Junge stated that while she was with the children in the Führerbunker they heard the sound of Hitler's self-inflicted gunshot. Helmut, who mistook it for the sound of a mortar landing nearby, shouted, 'That was a bullseye!'. Helmut was nine years old at the time of his murder. Holdine Kathrin (1937-1945) Born on 19th February 1937, Holdine was commonly called 'Holde'. It is claimed that she got her name when the doctor who delivered her, Stoeckel, bent over her and exclaimed 'Das ist eine Holde!' ('that's a pretty one!'). Meissner claims that Holde was the 'least lively' of the children and somewhat 'pushed aside' by the others, to her considerable distress, and that Goebbels responded to this by making her something of a favourite, to which she responded with devotion. She was eight years old at the time of her murder. Hedwig Johanna (1938-1945) Born on 5th May 1938, Hedwig was commonly called 'Hedda'. She insisted, in 1944, that when she grew up she was going to marry SS Adjutant Günther Schwägermann, having been captivated by the fact he had a fake eye. She was six years old, four days shy of her seventh birthday, at the time of her murder. Heidrun Elisabeth (1940-1945) Born on 29th October 1940, Heidrun was commonly called 'Heide'. Heidrun shared a birthday with her father. She was called 'the reconciliation child' because she was conceived after her parents reconciled. Rochus Misch described her as a 'little flirt' and said she frequently joked with him in the bunker. Heide was four years old at the time of her murder. As the Red Army moved closer at the end of January 1945, Goebbels ordered that his family be moved from the Lanke estate to the relative safety of Schwanenwerder. From there, the children would soon hear the rumble of artillery in the east, and wonder why rain never followed the "thunder". By 22 April 1945, the day before the Red Army entered the outskirts of Berlin, the Goebbels moved their children into the Vorbunker , connected to the lower Führerbunker under the Reich Chancellery garden in central Berlin.[28] Hitler and a few personnel were staying in the Führerbunker to direct the final defence of Berlin. German Red Cross leader SS- Gruppenführer Karl Gebhardt wanted to take the children out of the city with him, but was dismissed.[29] General Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven later described the children as "sad", but nurse Erna Flegel, with whom they had much contact in the bunker, characterised them as "charming" and "absolutely delightful".[30] They are reported to have played with Hitler's dog Blondi during their time in the bunker complex,[31] where they slept in a single room. While many reports suggest there were three separate bunk beds, secretary Traudl Junge insisted there were only two. The children are said to have sung in unison while in the bunker, performing for both Hitler and the injured Robert Ritter von Greim, as well as having been conducted in play-song by pilot Hanna Reitsch.[13] Junge said she was with the children on the afternoon of 30 April, when Hitler and Eva Braun killed themselves. Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Official cover from the 'Schweizerische Gesandtschaft' (Swiss Embassy) in Berlin. Featuring postage stamp Mi.669 (Ferdinand von Zeppelin's 100th birthday). Ref: 13.09.1938 - 10/34 13th September 1938 1/1 Official cover from the 'Schweizerische Gesandtschaft' (Swiss Embassy) in Berlin. Featuring postage stamp Mi.669 (Ferdinand von Zeppelin's 100th birthday). Ref: 13.09.1938 - 10/34 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Official cover from the Potsdam Kriegsschule to an address in Berlin. Ref: 07.09.1938 7th September 1938 1/0 Official cover from the Potsdam Kriegsschule to an address in Berlin. Ref: 07.09.1938 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page