14th July 1937 14th July 1937 Princess Letter 22 14th July 1937 Leutstetten to 27 Queen Square, Bath Dear Madeleine, Thank you so much for your good wishes for my engagement. I am very happy, I have found the best man one can imagine and we are awaiting with impatience for the day of our marriage. We fixed it to be the 19th August. It will be at Nymphenburg, a beautiful castle at the end of Munich, where I was born and where we always lived until after the Great War. Later I will live at the south of France near Cannes. We want to pass our honeymoon in Italy. I was very glad that you are coming to Germany for the summer. If you come to Bavaria we hope to see you too one day. You could visit us in August when you are in Munich. If you come in the beginning of August I could still see you and you would also see my fiancée, only don’t come in the last days before my wedding because we would have no time then. In Bavaria there are many beautiful towns to see, Wurzburg, Nurnberg, Rothenburg, Dinkelsbuhl, that is a little town just so now as it was hundred’s of years ago, Regensburg, Landshut, Hugsburg, Lindau and Munich and you would also go in the mountains. They are grand you will see. Muck is very pleased with the book you sent her, Loll will send you some photos, it is one she took on the sailing boat of me and my fiancée. Now I am a little lonely here because he had to go back to France to get some papers for our wedding. I hope soon to hear from you again and of your plans for the summer. With my love, Deidi Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

2nd July 1937 2nd July 1937 Princess Letter 21 2nd July 1937 Leutstetten to 27 Queen Square Dear Madeleine! I have great news to tell you. Deidi is engaged. Now please don’t get struck by the lightning but she really is. He is called Prince Pierre Henri of Orleans-Braganza and is 28 years old. He is very nice and good and they are awfully happy together. He is not tall, and brown and very sympathetic. He used to live near Cannes on the Riviera but he really is half French, half Brazilian. You see his great grandfather or grandfather has been Emperor of Brasilia. I believe they are going to live at Mandelieu near Cannes or somewhere on the Riviera. But they have not made up their minds to that yet. They want to become married on the 17th August, but they are not quite sure as to that as a cousin of his is to be married at almost the same time. Anyway we shall not return to Sarvar before September. They fell in love at Lindau because he is a cousin to some of our cousins there. That is why we have been staying so much at Lindau. Now what about you coming to the continent and to Germany? Why not come to Lindau for a few weeks. It is a lovely old town on the lake and you may go swimming and rowing or paddling or sailing as much as you like. And then please come to Munich. It has got the most beautiful buildings and picture-galleries and museums. One could spend month’s sight seeing. I am sorry not to be able to invite you for a stay at Leutstetten but we really have no room. We should be glad to see you for a day here and meet you at Munich and at Lindau. We are not going anywhere this summer. Now we are busy preparing for the Silver Jubilee of our parents. It will be next week and we have heaps to do. We shall have about fifteen to twenty guests. Then we shall arrange Deidi’s wedding. It will be at Munich but we are not sure where. Maybe at Nymphenburg, a lovely Rococo chateau just outside the city. Deidi and most of us were born there. Our parents used to live there till after the war. Deidi’s fiancé is here now for a week or two. I shall snap-shot them and send you the foto. It was awfully exciting to see them fall in love at Lindau, you may be sure of that. Good-byes for today, please forgive my not writing earlier but I could not tell you before they were engaged, and it is so difficult not to tell at all. Much love, Loll Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

11th September 1937 Nuremberg Rally 1937 11th September 1937 Nuremberg Rally 1937 Postcard commemorating the 1937 Reichsparteitag in Nuremberg. Imprint: 'Photo-Hoffmann, München, Theresienstraße 74'. Ref: 11.09.1937 Nuremberg Reichsparteitag 1937 'Rally of Labour' 6th -13th September 1937 Commemorating the 1937 Reichsparteitage, 6th-13th Sept., a series of 50+ postcards published in b/w by Graphische Kunstanstalt Zerreiss & Co., Nürnberg. See 27/65 (No.31) Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

17th July 1937 MHB 41 17th July 1937 MHB 41 Commercial cover sent from Gebrüder Schneider in Bad Kreuznach to a correspondent in Berlin. Featuring KZ24 from MHB 41. Ref: 17.07.1937 - 10/5 Stamp sequences from booklet sheet MHB 41 KZ24 (Mi.512+Z+Z+Mi.517) from MHB 41. Ref: 17.07.1937 - 10/5 KZ24 (Mi.517+Z+Z+Mi.512) from MHB 41. Ref: 27.11.1936 - 3/127 S138 (Mi.517+Mi.512+Mi.517) from MHB 41. Ref: 30.05.1937 - 15/52 W65 (A8.1+8+1) from MHB 41. A8.1, 'Support N.S. charity'. Ref: 17.02.1937 - 15/67 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

26th March 1937 26th March 1937 Princess Letter 16 26th March 1937 Schloss Moos to 27 Queen Square, Bath Dear Madeleine! Please excuse me for not writing to you such a long time but my letters are always so silly that I don’t like to write. I am staying with my cousin Therese Preysing for Easter. She is two years younger than I, but we understand ourselves very well. My cousin must go to an “institute” or college, how you say in England, after Easter. I would not like to go myself and I think she does not like it either. I had to cut this card as it does not get into the envelope otherwise. My cousin has five little lambs here and one has to give them milk with the bottle. It is very amusing to feed them like that. They are so nice and tame. Today I am not going out as I have a bad cough. It is very silly to have to stay at home I find. We are invited to a wedding in the neighbourhood, in the middle of April. There will be more than 150 persons present, I am so afraid of it, that I sometimes wish not to go to it. But I think it will be quite nice and amusing after the first few moments. Only I find it always so bad to have to go before so many old ladies and to speak with persons whom one scarcely knows by name. We are hoping that one may dance on the “Brautsoiree” as we call it (the evening before the wedding). Deidi wont go as she was at so many other weddings, and she doesn’t even know the family. Please give my love to Mary. I wish you a happy Easter. Yours sincerely Baby Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

3rd October 1937 Mi.P265 3rd October 1937 Mi.P265 Mi.P265 (first issued 1st October 1937) with lesser seen handrollstempel JB:Bückeberg2/183 (Ro - 'b') - see 03.10.1937 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

10th January 1937 'Ka-Be' overprint 10th January 1937 Ka-Be overprint Commercial postcard published by Paul Koch, G.M.B.H., Ascherseleben. The postcard features the 'Tag der Briefmarke 10.01.1937' overprint (alongside Mi.513 of the overprinted 'chequered' sheet). Ref: 10.01.1937 - 26/85 The Paul Koch/'Ka-Be' overprint for Tag der Briefmarke 1937 3 Pf (Mi.513) + 'Tag der Briefmarke 10.01.1937' overprint. Ref: 10.01.1937 - 26/85 Complete 'chequered' sheet. Source: Ebay Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Mi.648 (10.06.1937) Mi.648 (10.06.1937) Mi.648 Block 9 (Mi.648). Ref: 26.01.1938 - 1/8. Poor example on cover. Posted from Stuttgart to London. Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

14th October 1937 Francisco Franco 14th October 1937 Francisco Franco Postcard depicting Francisco Franco in a three-quarter length pose. The card was sent during the Spanish Civil War from Zaragoza to an address in Bologna, Italy. Ref: 14.10.1937 Francisco Franco (1892 - 1975) Francisco Franco Bahamonde was a Spanish military general who led the Nationalist forces in overthrowing the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War and thereafter ruled over Spain from 1939 to 1975 as a dictator, assuming the title Caudillo . This period in Spanish history, from the Nationalist victory to Franco's death, is commonly known as Francoist Spain or as the Francoist dictatorship. Born in Ferrol, Galicia, into an upper-class military family, Franco served in the Spanish Army as a cadet in the Toledo Infantry Academy from 1907 to 1910. While serving in Morocco, he rose through the ranks to become a brigadier general in 1926 at age 33. Two years later, Franco became the director of the General Military Academy in Zaragoza. As a conservative and monarchist, Franco regretted the abolition of the monarchy and the establishment of the Second Republic in 1931, and was devastated by the closing of his academy; nevertheless, he continued his service in the Republican Army. His career was boosted after the right-wing CEDA and PRR won the 1933 election, empowering him to lead the suppression of the 1934 uprising in Asturias. Franco was briefly elevated to Chief of Army Staff before the 1936 election moved the leftist Popular Front into power, relegating him to the Canary Islands. Initially reluctant, he joined the July 1936 military coup, which, after failing to take Spain, sparked the Spanish Civil War. During the war, he commanded Spain's African colonial army and later, following the deaths of much of the rebel leadership, became his faction's only leader, being appointed generalissimo and head of state in 1936. He consolidated all nationalist parties into the FET y de las JONS (creating a one-party state) and developed a cult of personality around his rule by founding the Movimiento Nacional . Three years later the Nationalists declared victory, which extended Franco's dictatorship over Spain through a period of repression of political opponents. His dictatorship's use of forced labour, concentration camps and executions led to between 30,000 and 50,000 deaths. Combined with wartime killings, this brings the death toll of the White Terror to between 100,000 and 200,000. During World War II, he maintained Spanish neutrality, but supported the Axis—in recompense to Italy and Germany for their support during the Civil War—damaging the country's international reputation in various ways. During the start of the Cold War, Franco lifted Spain out of its mid-20th century economic depression through technocratic and economically liberal policies, presiding over a period of accelerated growth known as the 'Spanish miracle'. At the same time, his regime transitioned from a totalitarian state to an authoritarian one with limited pluralism. He became a leader in the anti-communist movement, garnering support from the West, particularly the United States. As the dictatorship relaxed its hard-line policies, Luis Carrero Blanco became Franco's éminence grise , whose role expanded after Franco began struggling with Parkinson's disease in the 1960s. In 1973, Franco resigned as prime minister—separated from the office of head of state since 1967—due to his advanced age and illness. Nevertheless, he remained in power as the head of state and as commander-in-chief. Franco died in 1975, aged 82, and was entombed in the Valle de los Caídos. He restored the monarchy in his final years, being succeeded by Juan Carlos, King of Spain, who led the Spanish transition to democracy. The legacy of Franco in Spanish history remains controversial, as the nature of his dictatorship changed over time. His reign was marked by both brutal repression, with tens of thousands killed, and economic prosperity, which greatly improved the quality of life in Spain. His dictatorial style proved adaptable enough to allow social and economic reform, but still centred on highly centralised government, authoritarianism, nationalism, national Catholicism, anti-freemasonry and anti-communism. Source: Wikipedia Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

3rd February 1937 3rd February 1937 Princess Letter 14 3rd February 1937 Leutstetten to 27 Queen Square, Bath Dear Madeleine, Thank you so much for your nice letter. We are O.K. I have a party nearly every day and I enjoy it very much. You see they do give real balls here. It is great. Did you ever go to a real ball? Where one is asked to go to supper with a gentleman? And before and after supper one dances a lot. And then there is a Cotillion. It is after the supper that a gentleman comes as asked one for the Cotillion dance. Then one sits down with him and there are funny tricks one is asked to do. Example: six girls stand up in line and each has got a spoon. And they are to run through the hall and catch a potato on that spoon and run back and put the potato into a kettle. The winner gets a prize, or a girl stands at one end of the room and has to throw an orange to someone of the six gentlemen opposite her and who catches the orange is to dance with her. There are flowers brought in and each gentleman gets flowers to give to his favourite girls and the girls get (illustrated above) that are on a pin which they are to give to the same gentlemen. And between, one dances. The flowers and bows are always the favourite things. I had a ball invitation on Saturday, Sunday, Monday, today again and on Friday. On Saturday we shall give a big tea-party and dancing for about hundred people. Muck and I are rather excited, because we are so shy and don’t know what to do. The ball generally lasts till 4 o’clock in the morning, so we sleep till noon. In the afternoon we go for short walks. There is no skating or ice hockey now, it is too warm and there is water everywhere. How I long for snow. Papa has got a dachshund, a young one since yesterday. It sits by my side and howls, because Papa is gone and she loves him so much already. I can’t think with that howling dog near me. Baby is busy learning with her Fraulein. She is too young to go to parties yet. Ludwig is quite alright again. Only his eye is still a little red from his fall. He hates going to parties. We are rather sorry for it. Deidi did not yet write. Ludwig is going back to Sarvar, to Hungary next week maybe. I am reading Daisy Chain by Mrs Younge. It is very tedious and long and old fashioned. I am quite out of my senses by that howling dog. Besides I am sleepy from all these parties. But they are too nice and I enjoy them very much. Of course I invite you to my wedding only I am afraid I never will be married. I cant think of my being married and having children, could you? I should prove to be a very bad housewife as I am not able to cook or sew or do anything. Baby sometimes writes to Mr Lambert and gets photos and long and funny letters from him. I cant think of anything worth while writing so I say goodbye! Heaps of love from Loll P.S. Please give my love to Mary. I should like to hear from her. Love for ever Loll P.S.2. Baby thanks very much for the dates it was she who asked for them, and she sends her love too. Loll Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

16th June 1937 16th June 1937 Polizei Berlin Perfin Mi.B13a Mi.132 Official correspondence from 'Der Polizeipräsident in Berlin' to an address in Berlin W4. Featuring official 3 Pf postage stamp (Mi.132) and perfin 5 Pf (Mi.515 - with perfin Mi.B13a). Ref: 16.06.1937 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

26th September 1937 Julius Bochmann 26th September 1937 Julius Bochmann cover Cover sent from philatelist Julius Bochmann to a recipient in Berlin. Ref: 26.09.1937 Steinstraße 5, Cainsdorf, Saxony Other Julius Bochmann related covers Also see 27/93, 34/94 Ref: 10/40 (date difficult to read) Re-used cover sent from Julius Bochmann to an address in Frankfurt a.M. By this time Bochmann has moved addresses (or has another property), and is now located at 'Zschopau - Sa., An der Kirche 4'. Ref: 24.07.1948 - 16/44 An der Kirche 4, Zschopau, Saxony Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page