6th March 1937 Fritz Paeplow 6th March 1937 Fritz Paeplow Privately printed commercial postcard featuring an imprint 3 Pf Hindenburg Medallion. Sent from Fritz Paeplow, Berlin-Wilmersdorf, Wilhelmsaue 114/116 to a collectors address in Munich. Featuring a special cancellation (ref: JB:Leipzig118/477). Ref: 06.03.1937, BV155 Who is Fritz Paeplow? Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

20th September 1937 20th September 1937 Wehrmachtmanover 'Wehrmachtmanöver 1937' postcard (imprint 4162 37 IID). Güstrow control centre, Taktische Nummer 410. (Ref: 20.09.1937, MFPIA2P34) additional 'Wehrmachtmanöver 1937' postcards and variations Imprint 4162 37 IID. FPN 0103 - Pasewalk control centre, Taktische Nummer 402. (Ref: 21.09.1937, MFPIA1P34) Imprint 4162 37 IID. FPN 1309 - Güstrow control centre, Taktische Nummer 022. (Ref: 25.09.1937, MFPIA2P34) Original photograph depicting soldiers of an artillery regiment during the manoeuvres of 1937. Ref: 9/19 Reverse side of photograph. Ref: 9/19 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

28th September 1937 28th September 1937 Mi.650 postcard Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

22nd November 1937 Mi.P266 22nd November 1937 Mi.P266 See 27/93 & 94

7th June 1937 7th June 1937 Bochmann Chemitz 20 Aufbau Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Mi.646 (05.04.1937) Mi.646 (05.04.1937) Mi.646 Miniature sheet first issued on 5th April 1937 to celebrate Adolf Hitler’s 48th birthday. Mi.Block 7 (perforated). Individual stamp Mi.646. ADD '20 VIERERBLOCKS' Ref: 17/83 next 3rd Reich stamp issue Block 7 (Mi.646). Ref: 03.03.1938 - 1/9. Poor example on cover. Posted from Stuttgart to London. Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

6th May 1937 6th May 1937 Princess Letter 18 6th May 1937 Leutstetten to 27 Queen Square, Bath Dear Madeleine! You are a perfect sweet to have sent us the Coronation programme. We are all very excited about it, as everyone is, to be sure. It would be most beautiful to see it. Perhaps we shall at some cinema. But we are sure to listen in. We did so at the funeral of King George V. And at the wedding of Marina. Many thanks also for your nice long letter. Am I not hateful not to have written for so long? But I was very busy sewing. Maybe I shall become clever in sewing. Until now I am not. The most exciting was to sew a tennis dress for Baby with a cape and all sorts of complications. It is not finished yet, but it will be very nice. Next I shall make a white organdie frock, a perfect sweet. I am quite in love with it, although I did not even start it. I was at a wedding of a friend, and it was great fun. I danced a lot. In ten days I shall assist at another. I wish everybody to marry because weddings are such immense fun. But not to be married myself. I was at Lindau for a week with Muck and Deidi. I tried to go by car, did you ever? It is very exciting and rather difficult. We have cars of our own but Pappi would never let us go by our self. He is afraid we could crash. So at Lindau we went in the car of a cousin. The most difficult is going backwards. Here we can’t play tennis, in Sarvar we have a court. But this weekend we are going to see the German champions von Cramm and Henkel playing the Austrians Count Bawarovski and Metaxa. It is about the Davis Cup. It will be awfully exciting. I love to watch tennis, bit I don’t like to play it myself. I saw some very good films “San Francisco” with Clarke Gable and Jeanette Macdonald. And “Romana” a coloured film, very nice but sentimental. And “Janeschikc” or “Love, Liberty and Treason”, a Polish film, talking German, very exciting with beautiful pictures. About a Polish highway-man and having adventures as much as the Scarlet Pimpernel. But the end is sad, he is hanged. We did not make up our minds about the holidays. I wish we would go to Belgium again. But that depends on grandma. Why don’t you go for your holidays to the Plattensee in Hungary. It is a very big lake and very warm water, always sun and good weather. It is quite near to Sarvar. I wish we would go there again very soon. But maybe we remain here till August. In Sarvar we can ride and do everything. And we have an immense garden and heaps of flowers and fruits. Here we have a dozen of apple trees which are empty before the apples are ripe. Yesterday we saw the opera Golderdammering by Wagner. It lasted 5 1⁄2 hours that is much too long. I am dreadfully untidy. The sisters send much love to all of you. I am very fond of you. Loll Right: Gottfried von Cramm. A German amateur tennis champion who won the French Open twice. He was ranked number 2 in the world in both 1934 and 1936, and number 1 in the world in 1937. He died in a car crash, Egypt 1976. He did, however, survive his fellow players of that day; Henkel played his last tournament at Bad Pyrmont in the summer of 1942, he had already received his draft notice. In the Battle of Stalingrad, Henkel was shot into the upper leg. He died of this injury on 13th January 1943. Bawarovski joined the German Wehrmacht. On December 21st 1942, when the Luftwaffe evacuated his troops from Stalingrad he ceded his place on the last flight to a heavily injured soldier and decided to stay in the trenches with his subordinates. He was hit by the Soviets and died in agony without receiving any medical help. Metaxa was drafted into the German Wehrmacht and was killed in action by American artillery fire at the town of Arnoldsweiler near Düren on 12th December 1944. Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

3rd January 1937 6th Silesian Stamp Exhibition 3rd January 1937 Silesian Postage Stamp Exhibition 6th Silesian Postage Stamp Exhibition See 03.01.1937 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

19th December 1937 19th December 1937 Rosenheim WW Collectors cover featuring Mi.653 with Rosenheim WHW cancellation. Ref: 19.12.1937, JB:Rosenheim2/648 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

10th January 1937 MHB 59 10th January 1937 MHB 59 Postcard self-addressed to F.C. Vogt, 'Mit Zeppelin par avion' (Graf Zeppelin), on the occasion of the 2nd 'Stamp Day'. Featuring Mi.W122 (Mi.637+636+637) from MHB59. Ref: 10.01.1937 MHB 59 Mi.W119 (Mi.636+637) from booklet sheet MHB 59. Ref: 10.01.1937 - 26/84 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

22nd June 1937 'Deutschland' incident 22nd June 1937 Deutschland incident Cover sent by 'El Interventor' (Chief Accounting Officer, from the town council at Palma de Mallorca) to Kurt Haffeneier (?) (a 'Feuerwerker - Ordinance Technician) on board the 'Panzerschiff Deutschland', moored at Wilhelmshaven. The correspondence arrives a month from when the heavy cruiser had disembarked from Mallorca and subsequent bombing by Soviet aircraft on the 29th May 1937. Note about the cover: a postage stamp has been cut from the upper right corner. Ref: 22.06.1937 - 3/138 The 'Deutschland' incident The Deutschland incident of 1937 occurred in May of that year, during the Spanish Civil War. On 29th May 1937, a pair of Tupolev SB Soviet bombers attached to the Spanish Republican Air Force raided Nationalist air bases and the port of Ibiza, in the Mediterranean Sea. The aircraft departed from the airbase of Los Alcázares, near Cartagena. The German heavy cruiser Deutschland , which was part of the International Non-Intervention Committee patrol, was anchored off Ibiza and was allegedly misidentified by the bombers' crew as the Nationalist heavy cruiser Canarias . Two Soviet pilots, Captain Anton Progrorin and Lieutenant Vassily Schmidt, dropped their bombs on Deutschland , causing large fires on the ship and killing 31 sailors and wounding 74. The following day German naval forces shelled the Republican held city of Almería in retaliation for the Republican air attacks on Deutschland . (See 14.06.1937 postcard from 'Seeadler' ) Because of the Deutschland incident, Germany and Italy left the meetings of the Non-Intervention Committee. The heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer shelled the port and the city of Almería with 200 rounds, resulting in 19 deaths, 55 wounded, and the destruction of 35 buildings. Source: Wikipedia Notes: 29th May - Bombed 30th May - British dockyard at Gibraltar 31st May - In the Mediterranean 11th June - Return to Gibraltar to pick up wounded sailors 16th June - Arrives back in Wilhelmshaven Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

11th October 1937 11th October 1937 Princess Letter 28 11th October 1937 Sarvar to 27 Queen Square, Bath Dear Madeleine! Thank you awfully for your letter. I got it the very next morning after having written to you. I was delighted to have the foto’s. They are very good. I am sure Deidi would like the one of the group, but I can’t give you her address just now as I don’t know it myself. She wanted to be at Lourdes tomorrow and then spend a short time in Paris. And I am very glad to have her here by the 29th. She will stay here for the big shooting so I think it best for you to write to her while she is here. I am sending you a foto of Deidi’s wedding. I hope you like it and you don’t mind my writing all the bridesmaids names on the back of it. We have quite a pleasant time here. At first we had many guests but now we have only four. One is an Irish girl called Mary D’Arcy. She plays tennis with us every day. I do a lot of knitting and reading. I adore knitting as much as some people do smoke cigarettes. Muck tries the tap dance too. I am too clumsy for it and too lazy too. I had great fun hanging up the pictures in our rooms. Now everything looks very nice indeed. My riding does improve, although I am not very clever. I’d love to go hunting but I believe I would fall down immediately. I try to persuade Pappi to let me go next year. Yesterday I saw a German film called Port Arthur and on Thursday I want to see Anthony Adverse. We are reading all the Pimpernel books Deidi has, before she takes them to Mandelieu. I wrote this whole letter without a dictionary. I hate writing with dictionarys. I never do. It is rather cold here, and the trees have got yellow leaves. I am glad the rain stopped now. It rained so much last week. Now the sun shines again. Give my love to all of you. Loll Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page