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Here are a stack of, what look to be voting slips. I HIGHLY doubt the are legit. But it never hurts to ask. 

 

5 3/4 inches tall x 8 inches wide. Paper yellowed with age. 

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Originals of these Hitler Reichstag für Freiheit und Frieden (different location though, Wahlkreis Niederbayern, but all presumably the same because they were for the same election nationwide) voting slips were 14.4 x 20.8 cm.[1] I make your measurements (5 3/4 inches tall x 8 inches wide) as equivalent to 14.605 x 20.32 cm. Close but not exact to a known original in a museum.

 

The election these slips were for was held on 12 November 1933 and by that time, all parties except for the National Socialists had been banned. This is why there are no opposition candidates listed.[2] 

 

There are several examples of the Reichstag für Freiheit und Frieden Wahlkreis Köln Aachen slips available via Google search and they would be so very easy to fake. In fact, the exact same ballot you show matches the one here: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/nsdap-adolf-hitler-election-ballot-43-c-8f14eb5808, right down to some of the printing imperfections (I stopped counting at three, please see the areas circled in red in the example I am posting below). Paper yellow with age is also no guarantee of authenticity as it might be an old fake. Could also be real but I doubt that, too.

 

[1] https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/SFYK6KUCCEU6SKT4SMWSTWAUCDN374C3

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_1933_German_parliamentary_election

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In addition, the example on invaluable.com is not watermarked and can be blown-up in size, meaning anybody could use it to create their own fakes if desired.

 

As well as possibly being old fakes on yellowed paper, it may be new fakes printed out on old yellowed paper. That was one of the techniques employed by the mastermind behind the (extremely lucrative) Hitler Diaries hoax of the early 1980s, Konrad Kujau.

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