Ross Verlag Postcards, Part 5: the final years

We continue our tribute to the German publishing company Ross Verlag. In 1937, founder Heinrich Ross was forced out of his own company by the National Socialists through their Arisierung (Aryanization) program. As a Jew, he was not permitted to own a business anymore. The Nazis retained the Ross Verlag name until 1941. For this post, it was much harder to find interesting postcards than for the earlier Ross posts. Not only the founder was missed but also many of the great artists of the Weimar Republic had fled the Third Reich. So both before and behind the camera had been a dramatic brain drain. However, Nazi Germany still produced some classic films and among the many glamour portraits, there are some that are more than mere kitsch.


Frits van Dongen (Philip Dorn). German postcard by Ross Verlag, Berlin, no. A 1290, 1937-1938. Photo: Tobis / Eichberg-Film. Publicity still for Der Tiger von Eschnapur/The Tiger of Eschnapur (Richard Eichberg, 1938).


Robert Donat. German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. A 1372/1, 1937-1938. Photo: London Film Prod.


Anneliese Uhlig. German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. A 1623/1, 1937-1938. Photo: Sandau.


La Jana. German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 1745/2, 1937-1938. Photo: Wog, Berlin. Collection: Didier Hanson. Publicity still for Der Tiger von Eschnapur/The Tiger of Eschnapur (Richard Eichberg, 1938).


Peter Bosse. German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. A 1859/2, 1937-1938. Photo: Sandau, Berlin.


Viktor de Kowa. German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. A 2401/1, 1939-1940. Photo: Tobis / Sandau.


Irene von Meyendorff. German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. A 2592/1, 1941-1944. Photo: Tobis / Quick.


Brigitte Horney. German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. A 2745/2, 1941-1944.


Hans Albers. German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. A 2879/2, 1939-1940. Photo: Brix / Tobis. Publicity still for Trenck, der Pandur/Major Trenck (Herbert Selpin, 1940).


Paul Hörbiger. German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. A 3118/1, 1941-1944. Photo: Terra / Wien-Film.


Paul Kemp. German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. A 3146/1, 1941-1944. Photo: Ufa.


Clara Calamai. German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. A 3171/1, 1941-1944. Photo: Tita Binz / DIFU.


Charles Trenet. German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. A 3194, 1941-1944. Photo: Harcourt-Schostal.


Lotte Koch. German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. A 3204/1, 1941-1944. Photo: Baumann / Ufa.


Hansi Knoteck. German postcard by Ross Verlag, Berlin, no. A 3218/2, 1941-1944. Photo: Tita Binz, Berlin.


Heinz Rühmann. German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. A 3227/2, 1941-1944. Photo: Ufa / Baumann.


Joachim Gottschalk in Die schwedische Nachtigall/The Swedish nightingale (Peter Paul Brauer, 1941). German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. A 3253/1, 1941-1944. Photo: Baumann / Terra.


Hannelore Schroth. German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 3359/1. Photo: Haenchen / Tobis.


Theo Lingen. German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. A 3362/1, 1941-1944. Photo: Karl Ewald.


Mireille Balin. German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. A 3419/1, 1941-1944. Photo: Ufa.

To be continued tomorrow. This post was last updated on 11 May 2022.