18th March 1940 1/0 8th March 1940 Sarvar to 26 Pen-Hill Road, Cardiff Dear Madeleine! I am afraid you must hate me by this time for not answering your long and sweet letter. But to tell the truth, it wasn’t my fault. I was in Munich for nearly two months. It was quite an adventure. We had to go there as our cousin got married and Muck and I had to be bridesmaids. The wedding was in January and we only came back three days ago. Here of course were heaps of letters to be answered. It was a funny feeling, being all the time in Munich, in a hotel. I don’t like hotel-life. We went to the opera 12 or 14 times and saw lovely plays. I enjoyed that part of our stay. But I hated to sit in the hotel without any work. I would have done some Red Cross nursing, if I had known our stay was to last for such a long time. But we waited from one day to the other to return home. I was lucky enough to go on a visit to Habsburg. Baby is fine, and her baby is really a very sweet little thing. She is called Elisabeth. She never cries, but is not drinking enough. Baby is worried about it, but I don’t see why. If the little one would be more hungry, she would drink more. At last we got all the necessary permissions and came home. I am really glad to be back here. In Munich I realized how I enjoy country-life. It is so quiet and natural. Besides I love horses, cattle, pigs and sheep. And I like walking in forests and over wide prairies. Especially now in spring, everything is lovely. This winter has been terribly cold, all the rivers were frozen and we had feet’s and feet’s of snow. It only melted away last week and now the country is covered with high water. When we came here we had to get out of our train and walk on the railway for a bit. There was a little bridge nearly swept away and it was too dangerous for a heavy train to pass over it. It is still rather cold, but the first snowdrops and such flowers start blooming. Sarvar is the loveliest place on earth in springtime. This sounds like love. But I am not in love at the moment. My best boyfriend was shot in September in Poland. I was very sorry, I though my heart would break. But as I am living on, it seems not to be as fragile as I expected. How is your love? I am not shocked at your frankness. I have been in love myself and I know it’s a happy, it’s a glorious thing. I must send you my best wishes for Easter. I hope you’ll have some gay days and enjoy it all. Best wishes from your friend Loll

16th August 1942 Hertha BSC 16.08.1942 Hertha Berlin reverse.jpeg 16.08.1942 Hertha Berlin reverse.jpeg 1/1 Postcard without written correspondence or address, featuring two images depicting the main football ground and the youth/training fields for Hertha Berliner Sport-Club. Also featuring special cancel JB:Berlin381/132, that commemorates Hertha's 50th anniversary. Ref: 16.08.1942 Hertha Berlin Sport-Club From Wikipedia: The club was formed in 1892 as BFC Hertha 92 , taking its name from a steamship with a blue and white smokestack; one of the four young men who founded the club had taken a day trip on this ship with his father. The name Hertha is a variation on Nerthus , referring to a fertility goddess from Germanic mythology. German football was re-organized under the Third Reich in 1933 into 16 top-flight divisions, which saw Hertha playing in the Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg . The club continued to enjoy success within their division, regularly finishing in the upper half of the table and capturing the divisional title in 1935, 1937 and 1944. It faded from prominence, however, unable to advance out of the early rounds of the national championship rounds. Politically, the club was overhauled under Hitler , with Hans Pfeifer, a Nazi party member, being installed as president. Herta BSC presidents during the 3rd Reich period Taken from the official Herta BSC website: Wilhelm Wernicke (1882-1967) was president of Hertha with short interruptions from 1909 to 1933 and represents the club's most successful period in the championship years (1930 and 1931). As a long-time SPD member and trade unionist in Wedding, Wernicke had to move into the background from 1933/34, but he continued to pull the strings in the club. Wernicke remained an important contact for the players at this time. During the war he sent a letter every week with the coveted 'Football Week' to the 300 Herthaners at the front. Hans Pfeiffer was appointed president in 1933, succeeding Wilhelm Wernicke, who felt unable to continue as chairman of the association due to his long-standing SPD membership. The Nazi regime tried to prevent democratic elections in the association. However, at Hertha BSC, the auditors and members of the honorary council continued to be elected by the club meeting in subsequent years. Pfeiffer's term of office ended at the beginning of 1936 when his dubious business practices (including title fraud and possible embezzlement) and his financial mismanagement became known. Gottfried Rinderspacher was appointed 'club leader' by the Reichssportführer on 10th January 1936. He had been a member of the SA since 15th March 1934, but did not join the NSDAP. In March 1936, Gottfried Rinderspacher appointed business graduate Karl Windgassen as his deputy. On 27th April 1940, Karl Windgassen was elected the new 'club leader' at an extraordinary general meeting. After the war and the re-establishment of the club, he became the new club chairman and led Hertha BSC through the turmoil of the post-war period with Wilhelm Wernicke, Hanne Sobek, Karl Tewes and Rudi Romarus. Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

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12th September 1940 1/2 Legal letter-sheet issued by the Reichsfinanz verwaltung (finance administration) in the rural district of Dux (at this time part of Reichsgau Sudetenland, governmental district Aussig, the towns name since reverted back to the original Duchcov). Ref: 12.09.1940 Reichsfinanz verwaltung seals Used on a letter-sheet from Dux (Duchcov). Ø 30mm (red circle). Ref: 12.09.1940

10th March 1933 News in Brief - Munich riots Screenshot 2024-02-18 at 10.15.49.png Screenshot 2024-02-18 at 10.15.49.png 1/1 ← Previous Next → Riots and abuses in Munich 9th/10th March 1933 Diary entry by Walter Gyssling Dr Walter Gyssling (1903-1980), journalist; career officer, then university studies; joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) in 1929; leading member of the CV bureau for resistance to antisemitism, 1930-1933; fled to Basel in March 1933 to avoid arrest; author of Der Anti-Nazi (1931). Note: The Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith (also: Zentral-Verein, Central Verein, CV, CV, C.-V.) was founded on 26th March, 1893 in Berlin. It represented the majority of assimilated bourgeois-liberal Jews in Germany, stood up for their civil rights and social equality and tried to reconcile Judaism with ' Deutschtum' (Germanness). '10th March. A night of horror lies behind us. Nothing else was ultimately to be expected. Whoever has heard the unbridled diatribes that were spoken yesterday evening in front of the Feldherrenhalle is disgusted but not surprised.' [Correctly: Feldherrnhalle (field commander's hall), a monumental loggia in Munich commissioned by King Ludwig I of Bavaria in 1841 to commemorate the Bavarian army. On 9th November 1923 sixteen participants in the Beer Hall Putsch (as well as four policemen) were killed at the sitein a clash with the Bavarian police]. 'Esser, Epp, Rohm, and whatever all the names of the 'leaders' are, have unhesitatingly poured oil on the flames. They bear the guilt for all the despicable crimes that took place last night. The workers' newspapers destroyed, the trade union premises attacked, hundreds of communist and social democrat leaders arrested. It is awful, but one is somehow used to it already, especially if one saw what happened the week after the Reichstag fire in Berlin. But that bloodthirsty criminals storm the apartments of peaceful, non-political citizens, that people are carried off and roughed up, that nothing, nothing at all, is sacred to these gangs, that was never the case in Germany until now. Today we are trying to at least get an overview of the night's events. Just now a leader of the Bavarian People's Party informs us that the current minister of police, Dr Stutzel, was taken out of his apartment during the night by SA members, brought barefoot in his pyjamas to the Brown House, and savagely beaten there. He probably would have ordered the police to march yesterday morning, had he foreseen his fate. Then a distraught friend comes and tells us that an acquaintance of his, a retailer who has never stood out politically, was assaulted in his apartment during the night by the SA. With words 'we've starved for fourteen years and you, Jewish pig, have devoured the money', the beasts literally tore off one of his arms. The advertising director of a department store was beaten, taken to a remote forest, and tied naked to a tree with rope. Of a Jewish furniture dealer one hears that, as a result of a night-time raid on his house by SA members, he now lies in a surgical ward with a fractured skull. I met the wife of a lawyer. Her husband has fled. Out of rage at this, she was viciously abused by intruding SA members. She can hardly walk. All her limbs are covered with welts and bruises. One arrest after another is reported. Not only the leaders of the left-wing parties, but also numerous Jewish retailers were simply arrested on the basis of some kind of list of proscriptions. We go to the offices of a well-known Jewish society. What we see there is an image of meaningless destruction. Doors and windows smashed, telephones and furniture demolished by axe blows, everything thrown around. Pale and crying, the employees tell us about the attack. Whatever wasn't nailed down and bolted, files, books, typewriters, money, everything was stolen. The looters did not even leave behind a single phonebook or train timetable. there I also hear more details about the despicable fate of the venerable rabbi [most likely Rabbi Leo Baerwald]. During the night, SA members took him to the Brown House, where he was greeted with the words 'here he comes, the crooked Jew-dog who will now be shot'. He was then led to the Oberwiesenfeld parade ground and placed blindfolded against a tree; an execution squad lined up and an officer commanded, 'Aim, fire!' But they did not fire. They merely wanted to give this dignified old man 'a little scare' and then let him go. Instead, another Jewish woman comes and tells about how National Socialists broke in her apartment in the night. Her husband and son were forced to sign a release with the following content: 'I, the Israelite J.L., hereby acknowledge that I am a traitor and agree to leave behind the assets that I have stolen from the German people and leave the country within four weeks.' Scarcely had they signed under the threat of drawn revolvers, when the SA explained to them that a Jew once demanded that Hitler be horsewhipped out of Germany. This utterance was now going to be avenged on them. Both were stripped naked and beaten with wire whips until they collapsed unconscious. So it continues for hours. One shocking report after another. In the end I can't take it any more and leave. Yet I am not to have any peace. On the streets it is even worse. In front of my very eyes, berated and spat at by hysterical beasts, SA members chase a man with whips in broad daylight. He wears neither shoes nor socks, no jacket, no trousers, only a shirt and torn undergarments. A placard hangs around his neck with the inscription 'I the Jew Siegel [Dr Michael Siegal (1882-1979, lawyer in Munich] will never again complain about the National Socialists'. He is one of the most respected lawyers in Munich, who had gone to the police headquarters in order to intervene on behalf of an arrested friend. After he had first been cruelly beaten, he was then hounded through the streets in the condition described above. After today, I know what a pogrom is. Gruner, 2019, pp.92-94 For more information on the Michael Siegel incident click here Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

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