Adolf Hitler Allee - Street sign.
Note: Due to the rarity of this sign it's also very hard to price. Offers are welcome.
There were a lot of streets with the name A.H Strasse(road), Platz(square) etc.
But there were very few Alle(Avenue's).
So this alone make it a very very hard sign to find.
What's even better with this sign is that it's fully documented.
Condition is excellent. it's just as it was the day it was taken down, all the dirt and smoke from the Ruhr area is clearly visual.
Size 82 x 18 cm(A large sign)
The red stripe was an indication that it should be removed and destroyed. Although it would be a very bad idea the red paint would be possible to remove.
As previously said there were very few A.H Allee, and we know that this is from the Ruhr area. So the only city it could come from is Dortmund which is in the middle of the Ruhr area.
You can read the full story (in Swedish) on the last two attached photos.
Below is a google translation from Swedish to English.
This photo shows a street sign that had been on the gable of a house in a West German town in the Ruhr area. It was unscrewed and taken down by a worker in the post-war work of the Swedish Red Cross in 1946. He worked in the service of Folke Bernadotte in the reconstruction of a bombed-out Europe.
After the end of the war, the Allies ordered that all signs and monuments with Nazi names and symbols be removed. To make this work easier for those who carried out this work, a small squad first went around the entire area and painted over everything with red stripes, which would be dismantled for destruction a few days later.
The Red Cross worker (who was responsible for feeding orphans and other homeless people in the city) recognized the uniqueness of this sign as a document of the time, with the strong symbolic value, through the broad red overpainting. He prevented those who took care of this by screwing down this sign himself, and he then took it to Sweden in 1947 as a testimony from an era that should not be forgotten. He had witnessed a horrific need.
The sign then followed (well wrapped) with a number of moves and has been saved for posterity now 64 years later. Nothing has been disturbed on it, the soot from the Ruhr area remains and above all the strongly symbolic red overpainting. The man who took it into his own hands died in 1996.
It is of crucial importance that it ends up in the possession of a serious collector.
The sign measures 82 cm x 18 cm.
