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Originally Posted by Papercaptain
These cardmodels were produced from 1939 to about 1944 by the Berlin/Germany firm Dr. M. Matthiesen & Co. KG, edited by the NSFK or similar german authorities of the IIIrd Reich. They were used by Hitler youth and Wehrmacht personnel for instruction purposes ("friend or foe?"). NSFK was a Nazi party organization for aviation (= Nationalsozialistisches Flieger Korps).
There were approximately 30 aircraft models, 6 ships and 11 army models.
The scale for aircrafts was 1/33,33, the scale for ships was 1/200, the scale for army items (tanks etc.) was 1/20.
Sometime after the war some of these they were (more or less legally) reproduced and are now occasionally found on internet sites...
Read more about it in the article by Axel Huppers, pages 55-58 in: Zur Geschichte des Kartonmodellbaus, Heft 1, ed. by Arbeitskreis Geschichte des Kartonmodellbaus. - Hamburg: Scheuer & Strüver 2001.
Kind regards -
Papercaptain
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This and many other historical photos of paper models
of NSFK are in the book "The Myth GELI"
the entire thread and more pictures here:
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