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This is an excellent example of the 1938 special English - German - Polish edition of Die Möwe (The Seagull), the magazine that described life in the German Baltic coast resort Zoppot in words and pictures.
Zoppot was an independent municipality within the Free State of Danzig which was roughly the equivalent of similar health, relaxation and gambling resorts in places like Monte Carlo and Marienbad. It was a very refined, upscale community between beaches and forests filled with fine hotels and entertainment venues in the "Riviera of the North" that appealed to the Nazi upper class and Nazi Party dignitaries.
Zoppot was an independent municipality within the Free State of Danzig which was roughly the equivalent of similar health, relaxation and gambling resorts in places like Monte Carlo and Marienbad. It was a very refined, upscale community between beaches and forests filled with fine hotels and entertainment venues in the "Riviera of the North" that appealed to the Nazi upper class and Nazi Party dignitaries.
The very rare, heavily illustrated 9-1/2 x 13 inch, 56 page magazine is filled with pictures of beautiful people enjoying the soft sand beaches and warm mosquito-free climate of Zoppot. There are lots of pictures of beautiful girls and young men engaged in every sort of holiday activity from sunbathing and dancing to fashion shows, parades, exercising, tennis, horse jumping, rowing, mud baths, operas and symphony concerts and Nazi Party political activities.
Because Zoppot and Danzig were cut off from the rest of Germany by the treaty that ended World War I, access other than that provided by rail was offered by the ships of the Seedienst Ostpreussen or the East Prussian Sea Line and other steamship companies. Over-land day tours were offered to the nearby Tannenberg Memorial (the final resting place of President Hindenburg) and the sights of the city of Danzig.
In the middle of July there was an especially big holiday for visitors and residents in something called "Big Thursday". The streets and gardens of Zoppot were lined with elegant flowers and the cars of visitors and residents were decorated with flowers for parades similar to the Rosebowl Parade in Pasadena or the Bloemencorso in Holland.
Naturally, the casino and hotels at Zoppot were an ideal venue for the gathering of Nazi big shots like Dr. Joseph Goebbels, Reichsminister Rudolf Hess, and Reichsleiter Dr. Robert Ley and their entourages for meetings of all sorts. The one personality conspicuously absent from the festivities presented in this magazine was the Führer himself, Adolf Hitler.
A very rare piece of Nazi ephemera that describes the little-known activities of the well-off in the casino of Ostseebad Zoppot.
RARE MAGAZINE OF THE MONTE CARLO OF NAZI GERMANY
SPECIAL ISSUE OF
DIE MÖWE
THE MAGAZINE OF THE UPSCALE NAZI CASINO
TOWN OF ZOPPOT
IN FREISTAAT DANZIG
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