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# 1936 Berlin Olympics & Post-WWII Cold War "Lost Eastern Homeland" Scrapbook BundleAn absolute museum-grade historical masterpiece! This curated estate-found bundle features two distinct, beautifully preserved mid-century German historical volumes. The centerpiece is a monumental personal chronicle album pairing an elite collection of original, live-shot 1936 Berlin Olympic Games photographs with an extensive, highly emotional post-war (circa 1950–1955) cultural archive documenting Germany's lost eastern territories following the border shifts of World War II.### 🌟 Detailed Volume Breakdown Included:#### Volume 1: 1936 Olympic Games & Post-WWII "Deutsche Heimat im Osten" Scrapbook
* **Live 1936 Olympic Snapshot Suite:** Features an exceptional array of original, first-generation silver-gelatin snapshot prints taken live at the 1936 Berlin Games. Includes a magnificent shot of the historic Olympic Torch Relay runner passing through the crowd, live athletic events inside the grandstands, the colossal entrance columns, international flags, and the famous classical stadium sculptures by Josef Thorak and Arno Breker. Includes original handwritten catalog slips providing ironclad verification of locations and dates—including the Lustgarten (Aug 4, 1936) and the Olympic Schwimmstadion (Aug 15, 1936).
* **Rare "Lost Homeland" (Deutsche Heimat im Osten) Portfolio:** A deeply historic sub-lot composed of original post-war pen-and-ink sketches and engravings detailing major German cities and architectural landmarks annexed after WWII—including Breslau (Wrocław), Königsberg (Kaliningrad), Schneidemühl (Piła), and the Teutonic castle of Marienwerder.
* **The Cold War & Berlin Airlift Legacy:** Features beautiful, sharp post-war photographs of Tempelhof Airport with a cargo aircraft in flight, accompanied by the handwritten English caption: *"Monument of the airlift"*. Fully integrated with 1952 Spandau 700-Year Jubilee materials and rare "Menschenfalle Staaken" checkpoint border crisis newspaper chronicles.
* **Pan-German Travel & Ephemera Cache:** Packed with vintage photo cards tracking the Wimbachklamm waterfalls, Berchtesgaden, Königsee, Rothenburg, and Garmisch, alongside a rare 1955 Hapag-Lloyd travel ticket stub for the Norderney Garden Club excursion to the Hamburg Dom.#### Volume 2: Vintage Bavarian State Crest Pocket Photo Album
* **The Architecture:** A classic folding pocket leporello sketchbook detailed with a stunning, full-color embossed enamel Bavarian State Coat of Arms on the face.
* **The Content:** Houses sharp, original silver-gelatin photographic portraits documenting a mid-century regional folk costume festival. Features exceptional visual details of participants in full heritage attire—including traditional leather Lederhosen with ornamental front plates, wool Tyrolean hats with festival feathers, hand-loomed lace capes, and metallic-thread Trachtenhauben caps.### 📐 Physical Sizing Specifications:
* **The Large Folio Scrapbook Binder:** Measures a substantial historical display footprint of approximately 14" tall x 10" wide.
* **The Bavarian Album Booklet:** Measures a compact cabinet footprint of approximately 5.5" wide x 3.5" tall.### 🔍 Condition Parameters & Photo Request Note:
Excellent vintage/historical estate condition! The original 1936 and 1952 photographic prints are remarkably crisp, holding spectacular deep contrast boundaries with zero severe silvering or chemical fading. The handwritten annotations and German ledger slips are dark and perfectly clear. The newsprint elements and historical architectural engravings are flat and securely attached, holding a gorgeous, natural amber age-appropriate toning. Covers are structurally rigid with only honest, light age-appropriate corner-rubbing standard for genuine mid-century personal archives. **📸 POTENTIAL BUYERS:** Due to the absolute depth of pages and historical clippings inside these volumes, we could only fit a fraction of the pages into the main gallery slots. Please feel free to send us a direct message (DM) if you would like close-up pictures of any specific region, date slip, or individual page layout! ### 📦 Safe Reseller Shipping Protocol:
We treat historical ephemera with elite care. This bundle will be packaged inside waterproof archival sleeves and sandwiched securely between multiple heavy-duty layers of rigid corrugated cardboard reinforcement inside a heavy-duty box. Guaranteed to arrive at your workbench exactly as shown with zero bending, warping, or postal corner creases!Ships quickly and securely packaged from our clean, smoke-free Texas facility!
