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Official letter sheet sent from the Berlin Tax Office (Steuerkasse). Featuring official 'MB' perfin on Mi.485. Ref: 20.06.1934 - 24/12 20th June 1934 1/1 Official letter sheet sent from the Berlin Tax Office (Steuerkasse). Featuring official 'MB' perfin on Mi.485. Ref: 20.06.1934 - 24/12 'MB' (Mitte Berlin) perfin from official correspondence shown above. Ref: 20.06.1934 - 24/12 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

'Ross' Verlag postcard depicting film actress Renate Müller. Featuring a generic cancellation from Bielfeld (JB:114/813). Ref: 09.03.1933 9th March 1933 Renate Müller 1/1 'Ross' Verlag postcard depicting film actress Renate Müller. Featuring a generic cancellation from Bielfeld (JB:114/813). Ref: 09.03.1933 Renate Muller Renate Müller (1906 - 1937) was a German singer and actress in both silent films and sound films, as well as on stage. One of the most successful actresses in German films from the early 1930s, she was courted by the Nazi Party to appear in films that promoted their ideals, but refused. Her sudden death at the age of 31 was initially attributed to epilepsy, but after the end of World War II, some commentators asserted that she was in fact murdered by Gestapo officers, others that she committed suicide. The true circumstances of her death remain unknown. Born in Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria, Germany, Müller entered films in 1929 in Berlin, and quickly became popular. A blue-eyed blonde, she was considered to be one of the great beauties of her day, and, along with Marlene Dietrich, was seen to embody fashionable Berlin society. She starred in more than twenty German films, including Viktor und Viktoria (1933), one of her biggest successes, which was remade decades later as Victor Victoria with Julie Andrews. After making Sunshine Susie (1932) in England, she returned to Germany and was delayed by anti-German French officials for a short time in Paris. The incident was used by Dennis Wheatley as a basis for his short story, 'Espionage'. The story and a short discussion of the incident are included in Wheatley's short story collection Mediterranean Nights . With the rise of the Nazi Party, Müller came to be regarded as an ideal 'Aryan' woman, and, particularly in light of Dietrich's move to Hollywood, was courted and promoted as Germany's leading film actress. When Müller died suddenly, the German press stated the cause as epilepsy. However, it was later revealed that she had died as a result of a fall from a hotel (or hospital) window. According to Channel 4 documentary 'Sex and the Swastika', aired in February 2009, she jumped from a Berlin hospital window where she was being treated for a knee injury or drug addiction. Officially described as a suicide, it was theorised that she took her own life when her relationship with Nazi leaders deteriorated after she showed unwillingness to appear in propaganda films. She was also known to have been pressured to end a relationship with her Jewish lover, but had refused. Near the end of her life, she became addicted to morphine and abused alcohol. Witnesses also recalled seeing several Gestapo officers entering her building shortly before she died. It has been asserted that she was either murdered by Gestapo officers who threw her from a window, or that she panicked when she saw them arrive and jumped. The true circumstances surrounding her death remain unclear. According to Uwe Klöckner-Draga in his book 'Renate Müller – Ihr Leben ein Drahtseilakt', on 3rd April, Goebbels wrote in his diary: 'Renate tells me her tale of woe. She is a sick woman.' On the 6th, he mentioned that she had been interrogated in a very dishonourable way, and on 25th June: 'Renate Müller! I help her.' At the end of September – according to her sister Gabriele – Renate was drunk and sitting on a window sill when she lost her balance. Müller's life and death were portrayed in the 1960 film Sweetheart of the Gods . Source: Wikipedia (2024) Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

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Vignette for the Deutscher Landhandelsbund (German Agricultural Trade Association), with the slogan 'Gemeinnutz vor Eigennutz' - Common Good not Self-Interest. Ref: 3/85 29th August 1933 1/1 Vignette for the Deutscher Landhandelsbund (German Agricultural Trade Association), with the slogan 'Gemeinnutz vor Eigennutz' - Common Good not Self-Interest. Ref: 3/85 British, Palestine Govt's, Zionists Deny Reports as Nazis Reveal Orange Deal (Jewish Telegraph Agency) 'Negotiations for the import into Germany of Palestine oranges and for the export of German goods in German vessels to Palestine are being conducted between the Reich’s ministry for food and the foreign department of the Palestine Government, the Deutsche Landhandelsbund, the Nazi department for agrarian trade and industry, informed the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. The agreement, as announced yesterday in the Berlin press, has not yet been concluded, it was said, but this is likely within the next few days. The agreement provides for the import from Palestine of oranges to the value of eight to ten million marks and the purchase in Palestine of double that amount in German products, all shipping to be done in German bottoms. Considerable mystification exists here as to the purported Nazi-Palestine agreement providing an outlet for Palestine oranges and a market in Palestine for German goods, with the general impression being that reports of the agreement are incorrect and an attempt to create feeling among the Jews that will lead to a breaking down of the boycott. Inquiries by Jewish Telegraphic Agency correspondents in Palestine have failed to reveal the identity of any parties negotiating with the German Government. The Palestine Government and the British Colonial Office here deny any knowledge of the reported negotiations. It is believed that the reports may have some basis in the possible attempt of some individual orange-grower to obtain a German market. The World Zionist Organization offices here, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and other sources of information received scores of inquiries over the week-end for details of this astonishing and ambiguous agreement. It is pointed out that even were the reports true, apart from the moral aspect of the deal on the anti-Nazi boycott, the agreement would represent a bad bargain since the Palestinian negotiators would have undertaken to buy twice as much as they would sell and would have to entrust the shipping to German concerns only.' Reported in the Jewish Daily Bulletin , Tuesday, 29. Aug. 1933. No.2634 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Oflags II-XXI and 6-92 11.11.1939 Oflag XVIII-B reverse.jpeg 11.11.1939 Oflag XVIII-B reverse.jpeg 1/1 Kriegsgefangenenpost sent from Oflag XVIIIB (Wolfsberg) to an address in Kielce, Poland. Ref: 11.11.1939 List of all camps, numbers II - XXI, and 6 -92 II - A Prenzlau II - B Arnswalde II - C Woldenberg II - D Großborn-Rederitz II - E Neubrandenburg III - A Luckenwelde III - B Tibor III - C Lubben IV - A Hohenstein-Bad Schandau IV - B Königstein IV - B/Z Zeithain IV - C Colditz IV - D Elsterhorst IV - E Annaburg IV - H Zeithain V - A Weinsberg V - B Biberac V - C Wurzach V - D (Oflag 55) Offenburg V - D Biberach V - D (Ilag V/Z) Wurzach VI - A Soest VI - B Dössel VI - C Eversheide (Osnabrück) VI - D Münster VI - D Soest VI - E Neu-Dorsten VI - F Wesuwe VI - G Oberlangen VI - H Aachen VII - A Murnau VII - B Eichstätt VII - C Laufen VII - C/Z Tittmonig VII - D (57) Tittmonig VII - E Eichstätt VIII - A Kreuzburg VIII - B Silberberg VIII - C Juliusberg VIII - D Tost VIII - D Tittmoni VIII - E Johannisburg VIII - E Johannisbrunn VIII - F Wahlstatt VIII - F Mährisch-Trübau VIII - F/Z Wahlstatt VIII - G Weidenau VIII - H Oberlangendorf VIII - H/Z Eulenberg IX - A Spangenberg IX - A/Z Rotenburg IX - B Weilburg IX - C Rotenberg IX - C Molsdorf X - A Sandbostel X - A/Z Itzehoe X - B Nienburg X - C Lübeck X - D Hamburg (Fischbeck) XI - A Osterode (1939 - Aug.1941, then Stalag 365) XI - B (79) Braunschweig XII - A Hadamar XII - B Mainz XII - B Hadamar XII - C ?????? XIII - A Nürnberg-Langwasser XIII - B Nürnberg-Langwasser (1940 - Apr.1943) XIII - B Hammelburg (Apr.1943 - 1945) XIII - C Nürnberg XIII - D Nürnberg-Langwasser XIII - E Hohenfels XVII - A Edelbach XVII - D Pupping XVIII - A Lienz (1939 - mid-1943) XVIII - A Wagna (mid-1943 - ????) XVIII - B Wolfsberg (1939 - Mar.1941) XVIII - C Spittal (1939 - Feb.1941) XX - A Thorn XXI - A Schokken XXI - B Schubin (Alt-Burgund) XXI - B/Z Hohensalza-Montwy XXI - C Schokken (Mar.1942 - Oct.1943) XXI - C Schildberg (Oct.1943 - 1945) 6 Tost 6 (WK VI) Oberlangen 6/Z (WK VI) Wesuwe 8 Frauenberg 8 Wutzetz 8/Z Damm II 10 Hohensalza-Montwy 11-A Sandbostel 39 Rosenthal-Brux 52 Ebenrode 53 Heydekrug 53 Pogegen 54 Annaburg 55 Biberach/Offenburg/Biberach 56 Prostken 57 Ostrolenka 58 Siedlce 60 Neustadt 60 Schirwindt 62 (XIIID) Nürnberg-Langwasser 63 Prokuls 64 Schubin(Alt-Burgund) 64 Wahlstatt 64/Z Schokken 65 Straßburg 65 Wurzach 65 Barkenbrügge 65 Schaulen 66 Osnabrück-Eversheid 67 Neubrandenburg 67 Barkenbrügge 68 Sudauen 73 Beniaminow 73 Nürnberg-Langwasser 73/Z Praga 76 Lwow (Lemberg) 76/Z Drogobytsch 77 Deblin-Irena 77/Z Zajerzierce 78 Großgmain 78 Eichstätt 78 (VII-E) Hohenfels 78 (XIII-D)Nürnberg-Langwasser 79 Querum 79 Waggum 80 Prenzlau 83 Wietzendorf 92 Sandbostel Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

VIKTORIA! Bohemia & Moravia VIKTORIA! Bohemia & Moravia 03.09.1941 Paul Kuhrt reverse.jpeg 03.09.1941 Paul Kuhrt reverse.jpeg 1/1 Commercial postcard sent from stamp dealer Paul Kuhrt in Prague. Featuring two 'Viktoria!' campaign devises. Ref: 03.09.1941 'Viktoria!' Use of slogan during the German victory campaign of 1941 in Bohemia & Moravia (It is to be noted that the 'V' symbol signifies 'Victoria', the Roman goddess and deification of victory. However, the German word for victory is 'Sieg', complicated by the fact that Victoria in German is Viktoria!... and the Czech for victory is 'Vitezství'.) OFFICIAL USAGE Postal cancellations 15 of the main post offices within Bohemia & Moravia were allocated special hand-stamp cancellations with the 'V' in a laurel leaf: "PARDUBITZ 1/ PARDUBICE1' victory cancellation. Ref: 9/18 'PRAG 1/ PRAHA 1' victory cancellation. Ref: 03.09.1941 'TABOR 1/ TÁBOR 1' victory cancellation. Ref: 04.08.1941 Post offices allocated the 'Victory' cancellation (German name only): Brünn 1, Budweis 1, Iglau 1, Jungbunzlau 1, Kladno 1, Klattau 1, Königgrätz, Kolin 1, Mähr.-Ostrau 1, Olmütz 1, Pardubitz 1 , Pilsen 1, Prag 1 , Tabor 1 , and Zlin 1. Continuous machine postmarks with 'Viktoria' slogan Six post offices were allocated machine cancellations incorporating the dual language slogan 'Victoria!! Deutschland siegt an allen Fronten für Europa!/ Viteství!! Ríše vítezí na všech frontách pro Evropu!' (Victory!! Germany is winning on all fronts for Europe). Dual language 'Victory!! Germany is winning on all fronts for Europe!', Prag 25 ch2. Ref: 30.07.1941 - 8/20 These continuous machine cancellations were used in Brünn 2 II, Mährish-Ostrau 1, Prag 3, Prag 5, Prag 14 1c, Prag 25 ch2 , and Prag 55 Post office applied rubber cachets Dual language cachet. 'Viktoria!!' = 33mm. Ref: 04.08.1941 PRIVATE CREATIONS 'Victoria! Deutschland siegt an allen Fronten für Europa!'. 62 x 19mm. Paul Kuhrt Briefmarkenhaus. Ref: 03.09.1941 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Stalags I-V 09.12.1943 Stalag IIA Neubrandenburg reverse.jpeg 09.12.1943 Stalag IIA Neubrandenburg reverse.jpeg 1/1 POW letter-sheet from Stalag IIA at Neubrandenburg to an address in Italy. Ref: 09.12.1943 List of camps, numbers I - V with links (in bold) Camp location, nationalities and population taken from 'Prisoners of War in Germany 1939-1945 by Gianfranco Mattiello (2003) I - A Stablack (1939-1945) I - B Hohenstein (1939-1945) I - C Heydekrug (1941-1943) I - D Ebenrode (1942) I - D Heydekrug (1942-1943) I - E Prostken (1942) I - E Sudauen )1942-????) I - F Sudauen ((1942-1944) II - A Neubrandenburg II - B Hammerstein II - B Neubrandenburg II - C Woldenberg II - C Greifswald II - D Stargrad II - E GroßBorn-Rederitz II - E Schwerin see 25/70 (no date) II - F (315) Hammerstein/ Schlochau II - G (323) Groß Born/Westfalenhof II - H (302) Barkenbrügge II - H (302) GroßBorn-Rederitz III - A Luckenwalde III - B Fürstenberg III - B Luckenwalde III - B Stettin III - C Alt-Drewitz III - D Berlin III - E Kirchhain IV - A Elsterhorst IV - A Hohenstein IV - B Mühlberg IV - C Wistritz IV - D Neuburxdorf IV - D Torgau IV - D Heilag IV - E (384) Altenburg IV - F Hartsmannsdorf IV - G Oschatz IV - H (304) Wistritz V - A Ludwigsburg V - A (Schattenlager) Biberach V - A/Z Münsingen V - B Villingen V - C Wildberg (up to 10th September 1940) V - C Malschbach (from 10th September 1940) V - C Offenberg (April 1942 - January 1945) V - D Stransbourg V - E Mülhausen Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Cover sent from the Hans Thoma Sammlung u.Archiv in Frankfurt to an address in Gloggnitz, Austria. Featuring postage stamp Mi.554, issued to commemorate the 175th birthday of Friedrich von Schiller. Ref: 07.02.1935 Hans Thoma (1839-1924) German painter. Thoma was born on 2nd October 1839 in Bernau, Grand Duchy of Baden, in the Black Forest, Germany. He was the son of a miller and was trained in the basics of painting by a painter of clock faces. He entered the Karlsruhe Academy in 1859, where he studied under Johann Wilhelm Schirmer and Ludwig des Coudres – the latter of which had a major influence on his career. Thoma also studied under Hans Gude, but rebelled against Gude's realism. He subsequently studied and worked, with but indifferent success, in Düsseldorf, Paris, Italy, Munich and Frankfurt, until his reputation became firmly established as the result of an exhibition of some thirty of his paintings in Munich. He died in Karlsruhe in 1924 at the age of 85. (Source: Wikipedia) Mi.554-555 (05.11.1934) Friedrich Schiller 1/1 Cover sent from the Hans Thoma Sammlung u.Archiv in Frankfurt to an address in Gloggnitz, Austria. Featuring postage stamp Mi.554, issued to commemorate the 175th birthday of Friedrich von Schiller. Ref: 07.02.1935 Hans Thoma (1839-1924) German painter. Thoma was born on 2nd October 1839 in Bernau, Grand Duchy of Baden, in the Black Forest, Germany. He was the son of a miller and was trained in the basics of painting by a painter of clock faces. He entered the Karlsruhe Academy in 1859, where he studied under Johann Wilhelm Schirmer and Ludwig des Coudres – the latter of which had a major influence on his career. Thoma also studied under Hans Gude, but rebelled against Gude's realism. He subsequently studied and worked, with but indifferent success, in Düsseldorf, Paris, Italy, Munich and Frankfurt, until his reputation became firmly established as the result of an exhibition of some thirty of his paintings in Munich. He died in Karlsruhe in 1924 at the age of 85. (Source: Wikipedia) Mi.554 - 555 175th Birthday of Friedrich von Schiller Notes: Designer: Karl Bauer (after an oil painting by Ludovika of Simonowitz and a copper engraving by Schwerdtgeburth). Letterpress printing. Sheets 10 x 10. Swastika watermark. Perf. 14:14¼. Quantity issued: unknown. Valid until 31.12.1935 Karl Bauer Karl Bauer (1868 - 1942) was a German artist, print-maker and poet. Bauer's traditional skills in draftsmanship made him a popular illustrator and portrait artist in the early 20th century. In his later life he made a number of portraits of Nazi leaders. His poetry was admired and promoted by Stefan George. In addition to poetry, Bauer was a prolific writer on history, literature and religion. As a painter, he specialized in portraits, drawing in a detailed linear style influenced by Renaissance German masters such as Dürer. He created portraits in the Northern Renaissance style depicting Martin Luther for churches in Görlitz, Oppenweiler and Helsinki. He also made numerous portraits of other German historical figures, including Goethe, Schiller and Beethoven. In World War I he published a book of portrait illustrations entitled Führer und Helden (Leaders and Heroes), depicting military celebrities. During the Nazi period, he made several portraits of Adolf Hitler. He also depicted Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Göring, and other leaders. A collection of his drawings illustrated deceased Nazi heroes such as Dietrich Eckart, Albert Leo Schlageter and Horst Wessel. Source: Wikipedia Mi.554 (6 Pf - Friedrich von Schiller). Ref: 07.02.1935 Mi.555 (12 Pf - Friedrich von Schiller). Ref: 15.11.1934 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

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