GERMANY - III REICH
SPECIMEN (DRUCKPROBE)
"GET TO KNOW GERMANY"
SERIES 5
The fifth Hindenburg series of Get to Know Germany appeared in September 1934 and is refered to as P236 in the Michel series. In this series the green tones are replaced by brown images and text. The first set bears the printers number 34-53-1 and consists of 9 cards. Following on from this series, multiple series were released in the same format, all the way up to the final issue 41-183-1. A total of 123 sets of 9, 13 sets of 8 and 1 set of 7 were released for a total of 1218 individual cards (999 different photos).
Most of these cards have the 'Lernt Deutschland Kennen!' heading but there were several local issues bearing 'Besucht das schöne Badnerland' (9 cards), Baden (27 cards) in 1937, 'Besucht den Schwartzwald!' 9 cards in 1936, 'Besucht das schöne Schlesien' 18 cards in 1939 and 8 cards in 1939, 'Dich ruft das deutsche Meer!' 1 set of 9 in 1937, 'Besucht Thüringen, das grüne Herz Deutschlands' 45 cards in 6 sets and 'Lernt das schöne Sachsen Kennen' on a single set of 9 cards.
YEAR 1934
NUMBER: 38-109-1-B8
"FRIEDRICHRODA - THÜRINGER WALD"