This is a nice example of the 5-7/8 x 8-3/8 inch, 56 page very heavily illustrated soft cover book Reichspostmuseum (State Postal Museum) as published in the late 1930s by Verlag Heinrich Hoffmann for the government of Germany. The multilingual (German, English, French and Spanish) guidebook is filled with pictures of postal material to be found in the German museum from stone tablets to the very latest automated Nazi postal systems. The post office in Third Reich Germany was resonsible for the telephone system, telegraph and even radio and television.

The dozens of pictures show Hitler getting off a postal bus at the Obersalzberg (who knew the Führer took the bus home!), modern post offices, traveling post offices, loading mail on airplanes and Zeppelins, Hitler Youth boys studying the exhibits, sorting mail aboard steamships, colorful pages of German stamps and postal coats of arms, high speed telegraph machines, telephone exchanges and HJ boys using the latest telephone technology.

There is even a photograph of the Reichspost television phone office at Hardenbergstrasse 29a in Berlin-Charlottenburg which provided audio and visual communications between Berlin and Leipzig.

While this is one of the hardest Heinrich Hoffmann publications to find and it is in very good used condition, the title page (page 1 and 2) has been torn out. Still a great opportunity to own a virtually complete example until you can find a more complete one.