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The Nazis eagerly embraced "tradition" to legitimize their own regime and create an enticing vision of a golden past. It attracted Germans who were stinging from national humiliation and economic crises. The fact that the Nazis had little connection themselves to these traditions mattered little. Here we see a common motif: traditional costumes representing the various regions of Germany.

 

 The traditional costume motif is echoed here in two stamps from the Nazi protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. (The protectorate was created from the Sudetenland territories of Czechoslovakia.)