“THE LIFE AND WORK OF THE FUHRER” NATIONAL EXHIBITION IN THE HOUSE OF LABOR, 17 THROUGH 20 APRIL 1937. HAMBURG, THE HANSEATIC STATE

These special souvenir sheets with a block of four taken from current booklet panes were sold to visitors at the KdF National Stamp Collectors Association exhibition on 20 April 1937, Hitler’s birthday and the last day of the show.
The 6+4 Rpf value depicts side by side Autobahn bridges over the River Saale between Hirschberg (near Rudolphstein) and Lehesten. It wras opened in September 1936, and was 300 meters long, 32 meters high, 23 meters wide.
German military engineers blew it up in April 1945 hoping to delay the advancing American Army.
The 5+3 Rpf value depicts the Luitpoldhain Heroes Memorial, Niirnberg which was erected in memory of the fallen of World War I.
The cancellation depicts a sprig of edelweiss.
§
Hamburg, with its long tradition of self-government, had a population of 1,647,000 in the 1930s. It and Bremen are the only German Hanseatic League city-states that still keep something of their medieval independence today.