Postcards of Hitler’s Germany 1923-1936 by James Bender is volume 1 in a three-volume effort to catalog collectible postcards of the Third Reich. Volume 1 covers the beginning to the Olympic Games in 1936. Bender Publishing offers a one-page Foreward to explain that the postcards offer a mini history of Nazi Germany. And I appreciate that fact as a beginning collector myself. Last month I bought my first postcard on eBay. But when I leafed through the volume I discovered that no further commentary is offered. All postcards are labeled and dated. But you don’t find out who drew them or photographed them and for what purpose. You don’t even hear about how Nazi propaganda worked. Am I to assume that Dr. Goebbels was in charge of issuing postcards? The book doesn’t say. Why doesn’t the author team up with a history professor and get him to write more extensive notes to go with the cards?