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1  National Socialist Women’s Association card to Helene Kregel with its outer canvas cover, what appears to be her mother’s National Socialist Women’s Association membership card. A helper for the National Socialist Party. Double sided printed card to another member of the family. Reichcolonialbund folded card with many membership stamps to a male member of the family. Two other unidentified organisational cards to Helene Kregel, NS ID card Issued to Helene Kregel with textile cover, front with embossed badge.Issued by the Gau Süd – Hanover. Left side with tuck-in flap for additional documents.

Membership card Colonial League is stamped and signed by the league’s leader Franz Ritter von Epp. Von Epp (1868–1947) was a highly awarded general and politician, who was awarded his knighthood in 1916 and the Pour le Merite in 1918. Before WWI he was a company commander in the colony of German South-West Africa (modern day Namibia). He served as the Commissioner of the Reich for Bavaria between 1933 and 1945.he membership cards of the Reichskolonialbund -Reich Colonial League. was an organisation that worked towards restoring the former German colonies that were lost after WWI. It was disbanded in 1943 by a decree from Hitler, as it was deemed irrelevant to the war. An unusual and interesting group of documents that warrants further research