29th October 1938
Altrohlau
Collectors cover featuring the hand-stamp 'Postanstalt Altrohlau/ Sudetengau' and the date '29. X. 1938'. Ref: 29.10.1938
Altrohlau
Stará Role (Altrohlau in German) is one of the fifteen parts of the statutory city of Karlovy Vary (Karlsbad). The fifteen suburbs comprise Bohatice, Čankov, Cihelny, Doubí, Drahovice, Dvory, Hůrky, Olšová Vrata, Počerny, Rosnice, Rybáře, Sedlec, Stará Role and Tašovice.
Karlsbad: According to the 1930 census, the city was home to 23,901 inhabitants – 20,856 were of German ethnicity, 1,446 of Czechoslovak ethnicity (Czech or Slovak), 243 of Jewish ethnicity, 19 of Hungarian ethnicity and 12 of Polish ethnicity.
In 1938, the city was together with the rest of the Sudetenland annexed by Nazi Germany according to the terms of the Munich Agreement. During World War II, the Germans established a Gestapo prison here. After the war, in accordance with the Potsdam Agreement and Beneš decrees, most German inhabitants were forcibly expelled and their properties seized by the state.
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