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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2018 12:51:15 GMT
Germany during the Hitler period had a certain fascination with horses. The annual Brown Ribbon race semipostal stamps surtax usually went to pay for the event or to provide the funding for the sweepstakes prize. A part also went to Hitler’s National Culture Fund, used primarily to help fund the construction of new buildings in Berlin. The fund was probably Hitler's "discretionary" money The race was probably named after Hitler's Brown Shirts the Sturmabteilung or SA.  There is some evidence Hitler was a horse enthusiast but others claim he did not overly care for horse. |
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Post by guthrum on Jul 30, 2018 18:53:04 GMT
The following appeared on another forum three years ago: apologies to those for whom it is familiar:
Extracts from my write-ups in my TR album:
"The ‘Brown Ribbon’ race was the high point of International Racing Week, an annual meet held at the Riem racecourse near Munich from 1934 to 1944. It was a 12-furlong flat race; the winner in 1936 was the mare Nereid. The Board of Trustees included Minister of Posts Wilhelm Ohnesorge, which may partly explain the series of eight ‘Brown Ribbon’ stamps which appeared annually to 1944.
"The International Riemer Racing Week was set up in opposition to Germany’s erstwhile most important meeting, the Baden International Grand Prix, whose aristocratic organisers neither approved of the Nazis nor met with their approval."
The Hamburg Derby furnished a stamp each year from 1939 to 1942, after which Allied bombing of the city rendered its running impossible. Meanwhile in a striking, if not horse-based, image (of the Brandenburg Gate) came a one-off commemoration:
"Berlin Grand prix 1941
The Grand Prix of Berlin was a classic race for three-year-old thoroughbreds, established in 1888, and run at the Hoppegarten track north-east of the city. In 1941 it was won by the Italian horse Niccolo dell’Arca."
...and again:
"The Brown Ribbon of 1943 was won by Hans Zehmisch on Panzerturm.
(The Derby, no longer appearing on stamps, had been relocated to the Hoppegarten before the July bombing of Hamburg."
The Vienna Grand Prix, unaffected by enemy action, was commemorated in 1943 and 1944.
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Post by guthrum on Jul 30, 2018 18:56:09 GMT
Quote from OP:
"A part also went to Hitler’s National Culture Fund, used primarily to help fund the construction of new buildings in Berlin."
This may be rather disingenuous: I think it is generally agreed that all money from Hitler's Culture Fund went straight into his well-stocked coffers. He did intend to build a museum of his looted art, but nothing came of it.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2018 22:56:08 GMT
This may be rather disingenuous: I think it is generally agreed that all money from Hitler's Culture Fund went straight into his well-stocked coffers. He did intend to build a museum of his looted art, but nothing came of it. Thank you I was under the disingenuous impression that Hitler and Speer had plans to rebuild Berlin into a world wonder and it was actually only a museum?
He probably would have had to nudge his buddy Göring to part with his treasures since he was the real art thief of the group
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