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27th September 1941 Vienna 27th September 1941 Vienna 27.09.1941 Vienna reverse.jpeg 27.09.1941 Vienna reverse.jpeg 1/1 Postcard depicting a roof-top view of Vienna, with emphasis on a Hochhaus (tower block) located on the Herrengasse. Ref: 27.09.1941 Vienna Link to map of Vienna (Herrengasse) Vienna (German: Wien) is the capital, most populous city, and one of nine federal states of Austria. It is Austria's primate city, with just over two million inhabitants. Its larger metropolitan area has a population of nearly 2.9 million, representing nearly one-third of the country's population. Vienna is the cultural, economic, and political center of the country, the fifth-largest city by population in the European Union, and the most-populous of the cities on the Danube river. The city of Vienna became the center of socialist politics from 1919 to 1934, a period referred to as Red Vienna ( Das rote Wien ). After a new breed of socialist politicians won the local elections they engaged in a brief but ambitious municipal experiment. Social democrats had won an absolute majority in the May 1919 municipal election and ruled the city council with 100 of the 165 seats. Jakob Reumann was appointed by the city council as city mayor. The theoretical foundations of so-called Austromarxism were established by Otto Bauer, Karl Renner, and Max Adler. In the Austrian Civil War of 1934 Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss sent the Austrian Armed Forces to shell civilian housing such as the Karl Marx-Hof occupied by the Republikanischer Schutzbund, the socialist militia. In 1938, after a triumphant entry into Austria, the Austrian-born German Chancellor Adolf Hitler spoke to Austrian Germans from the balcony of the Neue Burg, a part of the Hofburg at the Heldenplatz. In the ensuing days the new Nazi authorities oversaw the harassment of Viennese Jews, the looting of their homes, and their on-going deportation and murder. Between 1938 (after the Anschluss) and the end of the Second World War in 1945, Vienna lost its status as a capital to Berlin, because Austria ceased to exist and became part of Nazi Germany. During the November pogroms on 9th November 1938, 92 synagogues in Vienna were destroyed. Only the city temple in the 1st district was spared, as the data of all Jews in Vienna were collected in the adjacent archives. Adolf Eichmann held office in the expropriated Palais Rothschild and organised the expropriation and persecution of the Jews. Of the almost 200,000 Jews in Vienna, around 120,000 were driven to emigrate and around 65,000 were killed. After the end of the war, the Jewish population of Vienna was only about 5,000. Vienna was also the center of the important resistance group around Heinrich Maier, which provided the Allies with plans for V-1, V-2 rockets, Peenemünde, Tiger tanks, Messerschmitt Bf 109, Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet and other aircraft. The information was important to Operation Crossbow and Operation Hydra, both preliminary missions for Operation Overlord. In addition, factory locations for war-essential products were communicated as targets for the Allied Air Force. The group was exposed and most of its members were executed after months of torture by the Gestapo in Vienna. The group around the later executed Karl Burian even tried to blow up the Gestapo headquarters in the Hotel Metropole. On 2nd April 1945, the Soviet Red Army launched the Vienna Offensive against the Germans holding the city and besieged it. British and American air-raids, as well as artillery duels between the Red Army and the SS and Wehrmacht, crippled infrastructure, such as tram services and water- and power-distribution, and destroyed or damaged thousands of public and private buildings. The Red Army was helped by an Austrian resistance group in the German Wehrmacht. The group tried under the code name Radetzky to prevent the destruction and fighting in the city. Vienna fell eleven days later. At the end of the war, Austria again became separated from Germany, and Vienna regained its status as the capital city of the Republic of Austria, but the Soviet hold on the city remained until 1955, when Austria regained full sovereignty. Source: Wikipedia Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Mi.P904-905 British Zone Mi.P904-905 British Zone 1/0 British Zone (permanent use) postcards first issued in November 1945. Imprint 5 Pf Green (Mi.P904) and 6 Pf yellow (scan exagerates the orange in Mi.P905 below). Ref: 07.06.1946 (5 Pf) and 14.08.1946 (6 Pf)

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21st April 1936 GTKG 36-69-1- 1/1 See 21.04.1936 - 24/79 (B6) See 04.04.1937 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

17th July 1940 1/1 Cover featuring stamps Mi.22 and Mi.33. Ref: 17.07.1940 - 9/25 link to details of these stamps

FOOD & DRINK FOOD & DRINK 1/1 Cover sent from Erding featuring a vignette to the reverse reading, ' Eat German Cheese/ You are helping German agriculture' (Published by the German Potash Syndicate Berlin SW 11). Ref: 19.04.1941 Food & Drink Directory 'Eat German Cheese...' (Vignette) Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Mi.854 (27.07.1943) Mi.854 (27.07.1943) 1/1 Mi.854 (Ref: 01.08.1943 - 4/107) next stamp issue

16th March 1944 16th March 1944 1/2 Feldpost letter sent from Bünde (Westphalia) to FPN 26563 (L.G.P. Breslau - the Luftgau personnel office). The envelope has a enclosed 'Zurück' hand stamp, as well as the instruction, 'Nicht bei der Einheit. Zurück an Absender.' (Not with the unit. Return to sender). Complete with letter of correspondence. Ref: 16.03.1944

Kaserne & Lager Directory Kaserne & Lager Directory 1/1 Kaserne & Lager Directory Military barracks and camps referenced within the Brief History collection Also see: Date stamp cancellations with location KASERNE D Donnerschwee (Oldenburg) Flak Kaserne J Jachmann Kaserne, Wilhelmshaven L Langensalza Kaserne S Scharnhorst Kaserne, Liegnitz V Vierhöf Kaserne, Budweis LAGER M Munster Lager Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

31st October 1944 Feldpost 'i' designation 31st October 1944 Feldpost 'i' designation 31.10.1944 Feldpost i designation reverse.jpeg 31.10.1944 Feldpost i designation reverse.jpeg 1/1 Feldpost cover sent from FPN 64075 (Ortskommandantur (II) 336) to a publisher in Berlin. Featuring a feldpost date stamp with 'i' designation letter. Ref: 31.10.1944 'FELDPOST ' designation letters: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o , a1etc. , Aa etc. , Misc. Variations of the 'i' designation letter MFP9P45. Ref: 31.10.1944 Looks like an 'l' but upon closer inspection most likely a smudged 'i'? Detail below. Ref: 13.01.1942 FALSE. Most likely a broken 'l'. 3mm tall. Ref: 04.12.1944 - 10/19 DETAIL. Angles of broken 'l' appear to be parallel. Ref: 04.12.1944 - 10/19 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Self-addressed CTO sent from Dresden featuring JB:Dresden87/232 - '3 koloniale Tage/ d.Reichskolonialbundes'. Ref: 01.08.1938 1st August 1938 JB:Dresden 01.08.1938 Dresden Kolonial reverse.jpeg 01.08.1938 Dresden Kolonial reverse.jpeg 1/1 Self-addressed CTO sent from Dresden featuring JB:Dresden87/232 - '3 koloniale Tage/ d.Reichskolonialbundes'. Ref: 01.08.1938 DRESDEN cancellations as featured in the Bochmann catalogues (1952) JB:Dresden87/232 - '3 koloniale Tage/ d.Reichskolonialbundes'. Ref: 01.08.1938 JB:Dresden88/232 - see 19.03.1939 - 23/9 JB:Dresden91/232 - 'Deutsche Kolonial-Ausstellung'. Ref: 21.06.1939 Post-war JB:Dresden105/233 - 'Vereinigungsparteitag/ KPD/SPD Sachsen/ 7.4.1946/ zur Sozialistischen Einheitspartei - Bühlau'. Ref: 07.04.1946 - 15/79 Notes on JB:Dresden105/233 - Lesser seen cancellation (the rubber stamp become unstable after a few hours, with use ceasing). JB:Dresden106/233 - 'Philatelistengedenktag/ zum/ Erscheinen/ des 1.Dresdener/ 23.6.1946/ Postwertzeichens/ 1945'. Ref:23.06.1946 - 15/28 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

16th November 1945 16th November 1945 1/1 Window envelope (without contents), sent from Halle (Salle), featuring stamp Mi.70. Ref: 16.11.1945