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Toy's Story - chilling example of Nazi propaganda from the glory days of the Third Reich.
A toy car featuring a figure of Adolf Hitler and Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels riding in the back has emerged for sale.
The Mercedes 'Wagen des Fuhrers' car was made by toy makers Tipp & Co which was owned by a Jewish family before they sold the company and fled Nazi Germany in the late 1930s.
After that the manufacturers became a tool for the Nazi propaganda machine and the black Mercedes was made for children of Germany.
The car, that was made sometime between 1936 and 1942, is now expected to fetch up to £1,200 at Adam Partridge Auctioneers of Maccesfield, Cheshire.
Toy's Story - chilling example of Nazi propaganda from the glory days of the Third Reich.
A toy car featuring a figure of Adolf Hitler and Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels riding in the back has emerged for sale.
The Mercedes 'Wagen des Fuhrers' car was made by toy makers Tipp & Co which was owned by a Jewish family before they sold the company and fled Nazi Germany in the late 1930s.
After that the manufacturers became a tool for the Nazi propaganda machine and the black Mercedes was made for children of Germany.
The car, that was made sometime between 1936 and 1942, is now expected to fetch up to £1,200 at Adam Partridge Auctioneers of Maccesfield, Cheshire.
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