Hitler Youth - The Generations of Lost Innocence: A Grand Award Winning Display Exhibit (Grand Award Stamp Exhibits)

The advent of the philatelic display exhibit provided an opportunity for exhibitors to add dimensional richness to their presentations, by allowing the use of non-philatelic artifacts (three dimensional objects such as medals, coins, etc.) and ephemera (two dimensional objects such as paper items) to augment philatelic material. The Hitler Youth, several generations of young Germans, were manipulated and used by the Nazi regime as physical resources, propaganda vessels and as the foundation for Hitler’s fanaticized “thousand year Reich”. The story of the exploitation of these youth led to additional research and the realization that no one had ever used this subject for a philatelic exhibit. The nature of the story lends itself well to the display format, hence the creation of the exhibit: Hitler Youth – The Generations of Lost Innocence. The exhibit has to date, won seven gold medals, two reserve grand awards, one grand award as well as a host of special prizes and awards including three best display exhibit awards, three American Topical Association first awards, the APS 1940-1980 Medal of Excellence, the AAPE Best Plan and Headers award, AAPE Creativity award, the Germany Philatelic Society (GPS) gold medal (twice), GPS President’s Award, GPS Grand Champion, GPS Special Prize, the Ephemera Society Special Award of Merit, the National Topical Stamp Show Most Popular award and the National Stamp Dealers Association Most Popular award. Read more