Cartoon from PUNCH magazine 15th July 1936. The school mistress 'Europa' chastises the schoolboy 'Mussolini' having thrown an ink squib at Abyssinia, with the 'sanctions' cane now set aside. Note the carved initials to the side of the teachers desk - A.H. (Adolf Hitler), NAP. B. (Napoleon Bonaparte), and B.M. (Benito Mussolini). 15th July 1936 PUNCH Mussolini Cartoon from PUNCH magazine 15th July 1936. The school mistress 'Europa' chastises the schoolboy 'Mussolini' having thrown an ink squib at Abyssinia, with the 'sanctions' cane now set aside. Note the carved initials to the side of the teachers desk - A.H. (Adolf Hitler), NAP. B. (Napoleon Bonaparte), and B.M. (Benito Mussolini). The caption reads STILL DICTATING "YOU CAN COME OUT NOW AND JOIN THE OTHERS; I'VE PUT THE CANE AWAY." "SHAN'T, UNTIL YOU SAY I DIDN'T DO IT, AND GIVE ME MONEY TO BUY SWEETS." Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Registered cover sent from 'Berlin Olympisches Dorf' featuring two stamp sequences; W106 (6+4+6, from MHB 58) and W110 (12+3+12, from MHB 57). With special commemorative cancellation. Ref: 15.08.1936 - 16/17 15th August 1936 MHB58 Registered cover sent from 'Berlin Olympisches Dorf' featuring two stamp sequences; W106 (6+4+6, from MHB 58) and W110 (12+3+12, from MHB 57). With special commemorative cancellation. Ref: 15.08.1936 - 16/17 Stamp sequences from booklet sheet MHB 58 SK27 (Mi.610+Mi.611) from MHB 58. Ref: 15.08.1936 17/22 W103 (Mi.610+Mi.611) from MHB 58. Ref: 16.08.1936 - 16/18 W104 (Mi.610+Mi.611+Mi.610) from MHB 58. Ref: 15.08.1936 - 16/61 W106 (Mi.611+Mi.610+Mi.611) from MHB 58. Ref: 15.08.1936 - 16/17 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Postcard titled 'Fackelstaffellauf Olympia - Berlin' (torch relay Olympia - Berlin), depicting an athlete bearing the Olympic Torch and a map marking the route taken from Olympia to Berlin. Imprint 'Werbe-Postkarte Nr.6'. Ref: 31.07.1936, BV1329 31st July 1936 Werbe-Postkarte Nr.6 Fackelstaffellauf Torch Postcard titled 'Fackelstaffellauf Olympia - Berlin' (torch relay Olympia - Berlin), depicting an athlete bearing the Olympic Torch and a map marking the route taken from Olympia to Berlin. Imprint 'Werbe-Postkarte Nr.6'. Ref: 31.07.1936, BV1329 Published by the Reichssportverlag GmbH., Berlin, this postcard represents number six in a set of ten fundraising cards designed for the 1936 Summer Olympic Games. The 1936 Games introduced the idea of contestants bearing the Olympic Flame as they travelled the country publicising the forthcoming event. The Olympic Bell - Imprint: 'Werbe-Postkart Nr. 1' . Ref: 11.08.1936 - 25/7, BV1328 SEE GERMANIA V.10/4 p.172 'Reichssportfeld - Dietrich Eckart - Freilichtbühne' . Imprint: 'Werbe-Postkart Nr. 7' . Ref: 08.08.1936 - 25/4, BV1329 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

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'Ross' Verlag postcard depicting actress Olga Tschechowa (also known as Olga Chekhova). Ref:29.06.1936 29th June 1936 Olga Tschechowa 'Ross' Verlag postcard depicting actress Olga Tschechowa (also known as Olga Chekhova). Ref:29.06.1936 See 29.06.1936 - 24/93 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Stamps first issued on 15th February 1936 to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Automobile; Opening of the International Automobile and Motorcycle Exhibition Berlin 1936. Mi.604-605 (15.02.1936) Mi.604-605 Stamps first issued on 15th February 1936 to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Automobile; Opening of the International Automobile and Motorcycle Exhibition Berlin 1936. Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Postcard titled 'Nürnberg/ Die Stadt der Reichsparteitage', the subtitle to the reverse reading 'Burg von Westen' (Castle from the west). Published by Paul Zanke, Nürnberg. Ref: 13.09.1936 13th September 1936 Burg von Westen Postcard titled 'Nürnberg/ Die Stadt der Reichsparteitage', the subtitle to the reverse reading 'Burg von Westen' (Castle from the west). Published by Paul Zanke, Nürnberg. Ref: 13.09.1936 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Re-directed mail. Sent from Braunschweig 21st November 1936, arrives Swakopmund 15 (?) December 1936, after an unsuccessful delivery it's then forwarded to the recipient in Okahandja on 17th December 1936. ref: 21.11.1938 - 17/1 21st November 1936 Okahandja S.W.A. genocide Re-directed mail. Sent from Braunschweig 21st November 1936, arrives Swakopmund 15 (?) December 1936, after an unsuccessful delivery it's then forwarded to the recipient in Okahandja on 17th December 1936. ref: 21.11.1938 - 17/1 Okahandja, S.W.A. Okahandja is a city of 45,159 inhabitants in Otjozondjupa Region, central Namibia, and the district capital of the Okahandja electoral constituency. It is known as the Garden Town of Namibia . It is located 70 km north of Windhoek on the B1 road. It was founded around 1800, by two local groups, the Herero and the Nama. A German pastor, Heinrich Schmelen, became the first European to visit the town in 1827. In 1844, two missionaries were permanently assigned to the town, Heinrich Kleinschmidt and Hugo Hahn. A church dates from this period. A military post was established at the initiative of Theodor Leutwein in 1894, and it is this date that is officially recognized as the town's founding. The Herero and Nama genocide (formerly, also 'Herero and Namaqua genocide') was a campaign of ethnic extermination and collective punishment which was waged against the Herero (Ovaherero) and the Nama in German South West Africa (now Namibia) by the German Empire. It was the first genocide to begin in the 20th century, occurring between 1904 and 1908. In 1903, the Hereros saw an opportunity to revolt. At that time, there was a distant Khoisan tribe in the south called the Bondelzwarts, who resisted German demands to register their guns. The Bondelzwarts engaged in a firefight with the German authorities which led to three Germans killed and a fourth wounded. The situation deteriorated further, and the governor of the Herero colony, Major Theodor Leutwein, went south to take personal command, leaving almost no troops in the north. In January 1904, the Herero people, who were led by Samuel Maharero, and the Nama people, who were led by Captain Hendrik Witbooi, rebelled against German colonial rule. On 12th January, they killed more than 100 German settlers in the area of Okahandja (led by Chief Samuel Maharero, the Herero surrounded Okahandja and cut railroad and telegraph links to Windhoek, the colonial capital. Maharero then issued a manifesto in which he forbade his troops to kill any Englishmen, Boers, uninvolved peoples, women and children in general, or German missionaries.  The Herero revolts catalysed a separate revolt and attack on Fort Namutoni in the north of the country a few weeks later by the Ondonga). Notes regarding native prisoners/labourers: Absolute Destruction: Military, Culture And the Practices of War in Imperial Germany , 2006, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, pp. 81–82:'Sterblichkeit in den Kriegsgefangenlargern', Nr. KA II.1181, copy of undated report compiled by the Schutztruppe Command, read in Col. Dept. 24 Mar. 1908, BA-Berlin, R 1001. Nr. 2040, pp. 161–62. The other annual average death rates (for the period Oct. 1904 to Mar. 1907) were as follows: Okahandja , 37.2%; Windhuk, 50.4%; Swakopmund, 74%; Shark Island in Lüderitzbucht, 121.2% for Nama, 30% for Herero. Traugott Tjienda, headsman of the Herero at Tsumbe and foreman of a large group of prisoners at the Otavi lines for two years, testified years later to a death rate of 28% (148 dead of 528 labourers) in his unit, Union of South Africa, 'Report on the Natives', 101.' FURTHER INFORMATION ON THE SUBSEQUENT GENOCIDE CAN BE FOUND HERE (WIKIPEDIA) The Herero genocide has commanded the attention of historians who study complex issues of continuity between the Herero genocide and The Holocaust. It is argued that the Herero genocide set a precedent in Imperial Germany that would later be followed by Nazi Germany's establishment of death camps. According to Benjamin Madley, the German experience in South West Africa was a crucial precursor to Nazi colonialism and genocide. He argues that personal connections, literature, and public debates served as conduits for communicating colonialist and genocidal ideas and methods from the colony to Germany. Tony Barta, an honorary research associate at La Trobe University, argues that the Herero genocide was an inspiration for Hitler in his war against the Jews, Slavs, Romani, and others who he described as 'non-Aryans'. Robert Gerwarth and Stephan Malinowski have questioned the supposed link with the Holocaust, finding it to be lacking in empirical evidence, and argue that Nazi policy represented a distinct turn away from typical European colonial practice. Additionally, they write that studies supporting the link completely ignore the influences of World War I, the German Revolution, and the activities of the Friekorps in the inurement of extreme violence as a method in the German political consciousness. Patrick Bernhard writes that the Nazis, including Heinrich Himmler, explicitly rejected the colonial experience of the German Empire as an 'appallingly outdated' model; when they did draw inspiration from colonialism for Generalplan Ost, it was from the contemporary work of Italian fascists such as Giuseppe Tassinari in Libya, which they viewed as a shining example of fascist modernity. All sources: Wikipedia Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

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Official 'Olympische Segelwettkämpfe' postcards Mi.P261 - 6+4Pf - Ref: 15.08.1936 - 25/11; Mi.P262 15+10Pf - Ref: 03.08.1936. BV1327. 1st August 1936 Mi.P261 Mi.P262 Official 'Olympische Segelwettkämpfe' postcards Mi.P261 - 6+4Pf - Ref: 15.08.1936 - 25/11; Mi.P262 15+10Pf - Ref: 03.08.1936. BV1327. ALSO SEE OLYMPIC VIGNETTE TO THE REVERSE OF 15.08.1936 - 25/11 Hand stamps used at Kiel during the yachting events. a. - Olympic Harbour Post Office. Ref: 03.08.1936 Ref: ET77(P43) - 'Kiel' hand stamp used with the following post office identification letters: a. - Olympic Harbour Post Office b . - Air Port Post Office c . - Head Post Office d . - Olympic Harbour Post Office e . - Railway Station Post Office f . - Air Post Post Office g . - Head Post Office a. - Olympic Harbour Post Office. Ref: 14.08.1936 Ref: ET78(P44) - 'Kiel-Pressepostamt' hand stamp used at post offices 'a' and 'b' . Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Commemorative postcard, 'Zehnjährige Wiederkehr Des Reichsparteitages Weimar' (Tenth Anniversary of the Reich Party Congress in Weimar). Ref: 05.07.1936 5th July 1936 Reichsparteitages Weimar Thuringen Commemorative postcard, 'Zehnjährige Wiederkehr Des Reichsparteitages Weimar' (Tenth Anniversary of the Reich Party Congress in Weimar). Ref: 05.07.1936 Caption/imprint 'Offizielle Festpostkarte NSDAP Gauleitung Thüringen'. With Bochmann: Weimar11a cancellation. Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Devisenkontrolle: The 'Zur Devisenüberwachung zollamtlich geöffnet' label. Ref: 13.06.1933 - 15/4 31st December 1936 Zur Devisenuberwachung Devisenkontrolle: The 'Zur Devisenüberwachung zollamtlich geöffnet' label. Ref: 13.06.1933 - 15/4 Also see 18/62, Variations in the 'Devisenkontrolle' label. A = vertical line originating from right edge of 'Z' in 'Zur' Chemnitz to London 1933 . A = left edge of 'b', touching left edge of 'm', far left of first 'f'. Ref: 13.06.1933 - 15/4 Los Angeles to Munich 1936 . A = far right edge of 'b' and left edge of first 'f'. Ref: 11.09.1936 - 25/19 Rio de Janeiro to Erfurt 1936 . A = left edge of 'b', centrally between 'a' and 'm', extreme left edge of first 'f' . Ref: 26.09.1936 - 10/7 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page