Comments: This tin originally
contained a 100 "Sportzigarettes" made in Wiesbaden by
"Keiles"
around 1930. The illustration on the lid shows a muscular, well
groomed footballer/soccer player heading the round leather ball.
"Association Football" or soccer was codified in England in
1863 with the creation of "The Football Association" which
created the rules which that form the basis of how the sport is
played today around the world. To digress a little .... I actually
gave a short talk to the "Association" at their headquarters
in London a few years ago on "British Tins"!
England famously beat Germany in the 1966 World Cup 4:2 and more
recently in Munich 5:1 in 2001!
"Der Sturmer" was also a weekly tabloid Nazi newspaper
produced by Julius Streicher from 1923 to 1945. The title translates
to "The Stormer", with the motto "Germany's weekly
newspaper for the fight for truth", and by 1935 it was selling
480,000 copies a week. It was anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic,
anti-capitalist....very popular with young people and the lower
class in Nazi Germany.To view other images of this item, please click here:
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