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A 1929 Propaganda Article Sent to Detroit via Airship “Graf Zeppelin”

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A 1929 Propaganda Article Sent to Detroit via Airship “Graf Zeppelin”

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A 1929 Propaganda Article Sent to Detroit via Airship “Graf Zeppelin”

An envelope, measuring 154x99mm, near mint condition, and a newspaper cutout, measuring 288x230mm, extremely fine condition with multiple folding creases. The envelope was sent by Heinrich Gerdessen from Berlin-Friedenau on August 1, 1929 to Henry M. Hedrick in Detroit, Michigan, and arrived in New York on August 5, 1929. It was carried by the airship L.Z. 127 “Graf Zeppelin” on its 1st America journey. The envelope contains a cutout from the Nazi propaganda newspaper “Der Angriff” (The Attack), edited by Joseph Goebbels. It is from the issue of Monday, June 24, 1929. The article in question talks about the punishment of perpetrators of feme murders, politically motivated killings by right-wing organisations in the early 1920s. The article gives an example about a German army officer, Senior Lieutenant Nikolaus von Reim, one of the feme murderers, and condemns how the situation is handled poorly by the Weimar government and blown out of proportion, and the feme murders are downplayed.