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Abbreviations

Notes on the use of abbreviations within the Brief History collection

ABP

Auslandsbriefprüfstelle

During World War II all foreign mail had to be submitted by the Reichspost to one of seven censorship offices (with another another seven opened in the occupied countries). The index can be found here.

EV3.3 Good clean example. 25/54 (orphan)

Actors

 Index of actors who performed in films during the 3rd Reich period

Actresses

 Index of actresses who performed in films during the 3rd period

Addresses

Index of postal addresses deemed acceptable pre-1945, and subsequently re-named post-1945

Adler

Eagle icon imprint (+ date) to lower right panel on postcards, some with slogans

AGSSt

Armee-Gefangenensammelstelle

Information on POW collection centres

Aircraft

Index of both Military & Commercial aircraft

Airports

Berlin Tempelhof 11.07.1939

Allied Control Council

I certify my firm has local Military Government approval... postal authorisation text on envelopes.

ALLIED OCCUPATION POSTAGE STAMPS

The entirety of Germany was occupied and administered by the Allies of World War II, from the Berlin Declaration on 5th June 1945 to the establishment of West Germany on 23rd May 1949. The index viewed in the following pages uses Michel cataloging to list postage stamps from Berlin & Brandenburg, the American-British Bizone, French Zone, Joint American-British-Soviet Zone, and the Soviet Zone.

AM forgery G.V4/1-21

Amateur Radio

The use of amateur radio in Germany (with reports from 'The Short-Wave Magazine').

Annahmestelle 18/2,

Anschluss Directory

Related philatelic interest and ephemera of the Austria Anschluss (the annexation of the Federal State of Austria into the German Reich on 13th March 1938).

Cancel 6/4, 7/4, Kassel 8/2, 10/2,

AOk

Allgemeine Ortskrankenkasse

Public Health Insurance

Receipt books - see 19/132, Cover for the Local Committee of the Association of Emplees' Health Insurance Funds - see 35/4

AOk Aachen - see 19/138, AOk Baden-Baden (with logo) - see 35/2

'Arandora Star'

 Sunk by a German U-boat off the coast of Ireland with the loss of 805 people

Three postcards with images of the interior living rooms - see 27/45

Arbeits (Employment)

Arbeitsamt - Kirn - see 33/5

Arbeitsamt - Pleskau

Argentina

Diplomatic relationship with Germany

Argentinian postage stamps within the Brief History collection

Artists

Directory of Artists, Cartoonist and Graphic Designers

Cartoon on reverse and possible depiction of Hitler to front - see 27/10 (1930)

Also see Second World War Posters (imperial War Museum 1972 for artist profiles)

Aryanisation & Businesses

 The persecution of Jewish businesses

Associations & Organisations Directory

Being non-Philatelic and non-NSDAP associations or organisations

Aston Villa 5/5, 7/3, 'Aus dem Briefkasten' 11/3

VDA - 'Kärntener Köpfe' series of art postcards 25/36 (orphan)

Autobahn

29.07.1935 main page - add 19.02.1936 & 25.01.1943 (then delete both of these pages)

Auflag

Information on POW reception camps

Austria

 Stamps of Austria

Pneumatic post postcard Mi.RP14a? (c.1880's) Used in 1939. See 29/12

Austrian Anchluss

Austrian Plebiscite

Austrian Plebiscite: Transitional Post

'Ausweis für Rückgeführte'

I.D. Card for Repatriated Persons - Saar Offensive

Autograph signatures

Index of signatures in the hand of the prominent persons

Axster-Heudtlass, von G.V4/5-231

Azad Hind

'Free India' - the unreleased postage stamps of 1943 from the Provisional Government of Free India (Azad Hind), which designed and printed in Germany.