2-702-122 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Mayer MS-II glider, 1932. Glider in which Hermann Mayer won the Rhön competition in 1932. It achieved an endurance flight of 8 hours and 28 minutes. From "Die Eroberung Der Luft", (The Conquest of the Air), cigarette card album produced by the Garbáty cigarette factory, 1932. Eugene and Moritz Garbáty, who were Jewish, were driven out of business by the Nazis in the late 1930s, and forced to sell their factory which lay empty for over 70 years. [Garbaty Cigarettenfabrik, Berlin-Pankow, 1932]