Original Item: Only One Available. Here we have one of many Early NSDAP commemorative propaganda items, this one made of what we assume is a print onto laminated wood measuring 12 3/4" x 20 3/8". The text is Adolf H's speech from 21. März 1933, not long after he was appointed Chancellor of Germany by Paul von Hindenburg. This speech was given at the re-opening of the Reichstag following the Reichstag fire, shortly after that month's German federal election. A large ceremony was held involving Reichskanzler Adolf H and Reichspräsident Paul von Hindenburg, with an iconic photo taken of the two shaking hands.

The fire at the Reichstag building, home of the German parliament in Berlin, on Monday, 27 February 1933 was a pivotal moment for the NSDAP movement to seize power, as it was used to fuel more Anti-Communist sentiment by alleging that it was part of a large plan. Most evidence pointed to it being the work of a lone arsonist, Marinus van der Lubbe, with some even claiming it was a "false flag" event. The NSDAP was able to use the event to get Hindenburg to give more emergency powers to the chancellor. It was a huge propaganda event utilized throughout the seizure of power.

The plaque displays the text of Adolf's "WIR WOLLEN" (We Want) list of goals / demands for his time as chancellor. At this point he had not achieved a full dictatorship, so the list hearkens back to the German Empire and a return to the greatness that it enjoyed. We attempted to find a transcript of the speech, but we were unfortunately unable, and the stylized black letter font is not easy to read. As best we can tell it is highly patriotic, and speaks mainly in generalizations. 

The plaque is very well executed, and definitely made to downplay / minimize the amount of NSDAP symbols used, which are only present as small swas emblems in the large WIR WOLLEN at the top. The rest of the plaque is full of symbols of the German Empire / Weimar Germany, with the coats of arms of the states of the Weimar Republic going around the outside, and at the top is a large Germanic Eagle. The back of the plaque has a partial maker tag, which is unfortunately missing the bottom right corner, which would have helped identify it further.

A very interesting piece of Early "third reich" memorabilia, ready to research and display!

NSDAP Party

The NSDAP, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), was a far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that created and supported the ideology of N**ism. Its precursor, the German Workers' Party (Deutsche Arbeiterpartei; DAP), existed from 1919 to 1920. The Party emerged from the extremist German nationalist, racist and populist Freikorps paramilitary culture, which fought against the communist uprisings in post–World War I Germany. The party was created to draw workers away from communism and into völkisch nationalism. Initially, N**i political strategy focused on anti–big business, anti‑bourgeois, and anti‑capitalist rhetoric. This was later downplayed to gain the support of business leaders, and in the 1930s the party's main focus shifted to antisemitic and anti‑Marxist themes.

Ad**f Hi**er, the party's leader since 1921, was appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg on 30 January 1933. Hitl** rapidly established a totalitarian regime known as the Third Reich. Following the defeat of the Third Reich at the end of World War II in Europe, the party was "declared to be illegal" by the Allied powers, who carried out denazification in the years after the war both in Germany and in territories occupied by NSDAP forces. The use of any symbols associated with the party is now outlawed in many European countries, including Germany and Austria.