Nazis from Philippe Uhlmann, its rightful owner, fell into the hands of Ernst Horn; under his strict control, the production of toy aeroplanes expanded, their style became more realistic and more warlike, and the toy became a propaganda tool in the service of the dictatorship, corrupting German children.
Discreetly circumventing the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles concerning war material, German aircraft manufacturers relied on the public’s fascination with flying and recreational aviation to develop their inventions.
In the toy sector, a red sports monoplane derived from the D-OLAF and the D-Igan appeared in 1934: the D-2934, made of lithographed sheet metal and fitted with a clockwork mechanism; its propeller turned and it rolled along the ground.
It was quickly followed by a biplane with the same features
By 1938, the regime was no longer hiding its intentions; it had remilitarised the Rhineland, annexed Austria and seized the Sudetenland; the toy aeroplanes that followed reflected the times.
STURM FLIEGER
‘Assault aircraft’
The D-2934 marked with large swastikas, a monoplane and a biplane.
The monoplane viewed from below
The biplan
The biplane is armed with cannons.
The biplan viewed from below
These toys have the same dimensions: wingspan 37 cm, length 25 cm
The young Berliners who discovered these toys under the Christmas tree in 1938 had no idea that seven years later, conscripted into the Volkssturm, they would find themselves thrown into the inferno of Soviet artillery, on the orders of a demonic Führer holed up in his bunker.