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Holiday card with a silhouette of a soldier with his gun, walking across a map of Germany outlined in red. The word "GERMANY" is printed in gray over it. In the upper right hand corner is the text: "No foreign soldier will ever set foot on German soil. —Adolf Hitler, 1939." On the inside (also shown) left is a shield with a star and the head of a Native American. On the right it reads: "Nevertheless from somewhere in Germany we wish you a Merry Christmas." Offset lithography.
circa 1944
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WHi 80766
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