Greetings postcard sent from architect Clémens Thieme (1861-1945) to a correspondent in Leipzig. Featuring Clemens signature. Ref: 19.05.1936 19th May 1936 Clemens Thieme Greetings postcard sent from architect Clémens Thieme (1861-1945) to a correspondent in Leipzig. Featuring Clemens signature. Ref: 19.05.1936 Clémens Thieme's message and signature The message reads ' I would like to express my heartfelt thanks for the wishes of happiness and blessings offered to me on my 75th birthday and for the magnificent floral decorations presented to me.' Clémens Thieme (1861 - 1945) Clemens Thieme was a German architect. He initiated the construction of the Monument to the Battle of the Nations in Leipzig. Clemens Thieme was the son of a minor civil servant. After studying architecture at the Royal Saxon Building Trades School in Leipzig and at the Dresden Polytechnic, he worked as an independent architect in Leipzig from 1887 onwards. Some of the houses he built have been preserved. Thieme was also project manager for the Kingdom of Saxony during the construction of Leipzig Central Station, where he advocated the central terminal station variant. His most important achievement was probably his initiative for the construction of the Monument to the Battle of the Nations. In 1892 he took on the task of pushing forward the efforts to build a national monument to the Battle of the Nations, which had already failed several times. In 1894 he initiated the founding of the German Patriot League and organised the financing of the monument. To this end he appealed for donations and set up a lottery. The design by the architect Bruno Schmitz (1858–1916) was modified or supplemented by Thieme in key points; for example the installation of the crypt and the attachment of the freedom guards and the summit stone. The construction work was also carried out under Thieme's direction. Thieme is also considered one of the initiators of the Saxon-Thuringian Industrial and Trade Exhibition in Leipzig in 1897. From 1888, Thieme was a member of the Leipzig Masonic Lodge Apollo . Here he was a master according to the degree classification. Clemens Thieme died at the age of 84 on 11th November 1945 in Leipzig. He was buried in the Leipzig South Cemetery at the foot of the Battle of the Nations Monument (XII. Section/Plot 164). The grave was converted into a grave of honor. Source: Wikipedia Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Postcard depicting LZ127 'Graf Zeppelin' at Friedrichshafen. The red cachet reads 'Zur erinnerung an den besuch Zeppelin luftschiffwerft' (In celebration of the visit to the Zeppelin airship hangar). Imprint numbers '152 K27'. Ref: 28.01.1936 28th July 1936 Graf Zeppelin LZ127 Postcard depicting LZ127 'Graf Zeppelin' at Friedrichshafen. The red cachet reads 'Zur erinnerung an den besuch Zeppelin luftschiffwerft' (In celebration of the visit to the Zeppelin airship hangar). Imprint numbers '152 K27'. Ref: 28.01.1936 Link to the LZ 127 'Südamerika-Chicgofahrt' flight of 1933 Link to the LZ 127 'Europa-Südamerika' flights of 1935 Zeppelin hanger at Friedrichshafen pictured c.1926. Ref: 16.07.1926 - 14/24 Note: An early reference to LZ 127, the postcard depicts a hanger and Zeppelin, however, this is not LZ 127 (possibly LZ 126?). Construction of the Graf Zeppelin had begun in 1926 with completion in 1928. Postcard depicting LZ 127. Ref: 19.08.1933 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

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Publicity postcard depicting 'The Flags of participating Countries' for the 1936 Olympic Games. Published by Reichssportverlag, Berlin SW68. Ref: 15.08.1936, BV1338 15th August 1936 Flags Publicity postcard depicting 'The Flags of participating Countries' for the 1936 Olympic Games. Published by Reichssportverlag, Berlin SW68. Ref: 15.08.1936, BV1338 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

AN INDEX FOR THE CARTOONS FROM PUNCH MAGAZINE Punch, or The London Charivari was a British weekly magazine of humour and satire established in 1841 by Henry Mayhew and wood-engraver Ebenezer Landells. Historically, it was most influential in the 1840s and 1850s, when it helped to coin the term 'cartoon' in its modern sense as a humorous illustration. From 1850, John Tenniel was the chief cartoon artist at the magazine for over 50 years. After the 1940s, when its circulation peaked, it went into a long decline, closing in 1992. It was revived in 1996, but closed again in 2002. Punch Cartoons INDEX Punch Cartoons AN INDEX FOR THE CARTOONS FROM PUNCH MAGAZINE Punch, or The London Charivari was a British weekly magazine of humour and satire established in 1841 by Henry Mayhew and wood-engraver Ebenezer Landells. Historically, it was most influential in the 1840s and 1850s, when it helped to coin the term 'cartoon' in its modern sense as a humorous illustration. From 1850, John Tenniel was the chief cartoon artist at the magazine for over 50 years. After the 1940s, when its circulation peaked, it went into a long decline, closing in 1992. It was revived in 1996, but closed again in 2002. Links to the cartoons from Punch listed in date order with brief description (issues within the Brief History collection: 1936 (late), 1938 (early), 1939 (Oct-Dec), 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945 (all loose), 1946). 1936 25th May 1936 - Mussolini and Abyssinia 12th August 1936 - Spanish Civil War 11th November 1936 - Remembrance Day 1945 3rd January 1945 - Child of 1945 3rd January 1945 - Starvation in Warsaw 10th January 1945 - Himmler the puppet master 17th January 1945 - Sealing Germany's fate 31st January 1945 - Hindenburg's coffin 7th February 1945 - Troblesome map of Europe 14th February 1945 - Frederick the Great 28th February 1945 - The Dutch Famine 7th March 1945 - The end of tyranny 21st March 1945 - Wotan surrenders 11th April 1945 - Werewolves 18th April 1945 - The masks of Japan 2nd May 1945 - The last heil 9th May 1945 - Food into Holland 9th May 1945 - Fallen Thrones 13th June 1945 - Help Holland Fund 11th July 1945 - Victory Parade 25th July 1945 - Göring & Ribbentrop 22nd August 1945 - Mars defeated 29th August 1945 - Bulgaria and Spain 5th September 1945 - Japanese audacity 5th September 1945 - The Marshall Plan 19th September 1945 - Japanese war reparations 31st October 1945 - Post-war America 28th November1945 - Justice at the Nuremberg Trials Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

28th June 1936 Ruperto Carola See also https://www.briefhistory.co.uk/1936/gtkg-36-70-1-b4 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

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29th March 1936 LZ129 Mi.606 Mi.607 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Official Berlin police cover featuring Mi.519 as a perfin (B13a Berlin II). 11th August 1936 519 Berlin Perfin Official Berlin police cover featuring Mi.519 as a perfin (B13a Berlin II). Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

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Postcard Mi.P263 (Winter Relief Fund and Commemorating the Completion of 1,000 kilometres of Autobahn) sent from Berlin to an address un the United Kingdom (with uprated postage). Uprated postage for overseas (actual charge for foreign postage being 15 Pf). Featuring commemorative cancellation JB:Berlin210/107. Ref: 10.10.1936 - 26/8 The card was written by a correspondent whist in 'Kemplinski Haus Vaterland'. The message reads, in part, 'We are sitting here on the Wine Terrace in the Restaurant Vaterland and send kind regards...' The 'Wine Terrace' referred to is most likely the 'Grinzinger Heuriger', located at the front of the building above the cinema. 10th October 1936 Haus Vaterland Postcard Mi.P263 (Winter Relief Fund and Commemorating the Completion of 1,000 kilometres of Autobahn) sent from Berlin to an address un the United Kingdom (with uprated postage). Uprated postage for overseas (actual charge for foreign postage being 15 Pf). Featuring commemorative cancellation JB:Berlin210/107. Ref: 10.10.1936 - 26/8 The card was written by a correspondent whist in 'Kemplinski Haus Vaterland'. The message reads, in part, 'We are sitting here on the Wine Terrace in the Restaurant Vaterland and send kind regards...' The 'Wine Terrace' referred to is most likely the 'Grinzinger Heuriger', located at the front of the building above the cinema. HAUS VATERLAND 'I can think of no better way to top off a Berlin night . . . than an hour or two or three in Haus Vaterland. The place is certainly not 'high hat', nor is it low hat, but it is of the very essence of Berlin.' Sydney Clark, Germany on £10 , London: Nicholson and Watson, 1934 Postcard depicting 'Haus Vaterland'. Note that the photograpgh was most like taken in 1930/31 as the movie poster to the lower left edge depicts Käthe Dorsch in her title roll in 'Die Lindenwirtin' (aka 'The Inn at the Rhine'), released in August 1930. Ref: 19.04.1935 Haus Vaterland (Fatherland House) was a pleasure palace on the south-east side of Potsdamer Platz in central Berlin. Preceded by Haus Potsdam, a multi-use building including a large cinema and a huge café, from 1928 to 1943 it was a large, famous establishment including the largest cafe in the world, a major cinema, a large ballroom and numerous theme restaurants, promoted as a showcase of all nations. It was partially destroyed by fire in World War II, reopened in a limited form until 1953, and was finally demolished in 1976. In the Nazi years, the mix of restaurants was modified and the Jewish Kempinskis had to sell the building for a pittance to 'Aryans' and leave the country. A 1936 French film, Les Loups entre eux (English title: The Sequel to Second Bureau ), features scenes in Haus Vaterland, including 'the Horst Wessel song booming from the loud-speaker'. The business continued to host throngs of customers even after Berlin began to suffer heavy bombing by the Allies. In 1943 the building was damaged, particularly in the central section, in the British night Air-raid on the nights of 22nd and 23rd November that destroyed much of the centre of the city including the department store KaDeWe. On 3rd February 1945 it was bombed out by the U.S.A.A.F. during a daylight raid, only the walls left standing. 'Grinzinger Heuriger' Official posrcard from 'haus Vaterland' depicting the Heuriger in Grinzing. Ref: 17/42 A re-creation of a Viennese Heuriger (a tavern where local winemakers serve their new wine under a special licence in alternating months during the growing season) in Grinzing, on the third floor. The menu included Sachertorte prepared from the authentic recipe; the Kempinskis had an exclusive licence to offer it in Berlin. Guests sampled the new wine looking out at the steeple of St. Stephen's cathedral against a starry sky, and a tram with interior lights lit crossed the bridge over the Danube. In the Berliner Tageblatt , the Austrian writer Arnold Höllriegel declared the place to be far more genuine than the real thing. After the war, Potsdamer Platz was the point where three of the four Allied occupation zones met. The ruined Haus Vaterland was in the Russian sector, but had doors to both the British and the American. In 1947, Café Vaterland was reopened in an acclaimed gesture of will to rebuild the city, and in 1948 the Communist cabaret Frischer Wind was playing there, while because of its position on the sector lines, it was a hotbed of spying, flight from the East, and black marketing in currency and goods. Source: Wikipedia Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page