1st March 1945 Walter Behrens 1st March 1945 Walter Behrens Also see 12.08.1936 (Olympics) 10.01.1937 (Day of the Stamp) - 27/8 20.01.1938 18.04.1944 - 34/27 01.03.1945 - 26/19 and 17/75 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Winterhilfewerk d.Deutsche Volkes postcards 1933/34 Winterhilfewerk d.Deutsche Volkes postcards 1933/34 Winterhilfswerke der deutschen Volkes 1933/34 Winterhilfswerke d.Deutschen Volkes 1933/34 Index of postcards Unsere Marine in Krieg und Frieden Our navy in war and peace (no series number) SMS Franfurt (see 17/79) SMS Magdeburg (see 17/79) SMS Brummer (see 17/79) Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Propaganda Anti-German Propaganda Anti-German Propaganda Anti-German Anti-German Propaganda 1939 1940 1941 1942 Russian feldpost postcard depicting a stylised German soldier chasing a pig - see 26.02.1942 - Fleurs & Papillons 1943 1944 1945 French postcard depicting German motorised infantry in a delivery bicycle - 14.06.1945 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

K.d.F. Directory K.d.F. Directory K.d.F. Directory KdF Directory Offices KdF Sammlergruppen, Gau Hessen-Nassau (envelope) - see 11.09.1941 Buildings Aumühle im Aumatal, bei Weida (holiday destination) Link to KdF cruise ships Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Feldpost Stamps Feldpost Stamps Feldpost Stamps FELDPOST STAMPS Using the Michel Germany Specialised 2016 catalogue as reference General Issues 1942 Mi.1 Permission stamp for air mail field post covers (18.04.1942/1943) Mi.2 Permission stamp for field post packages (10.07.1942/1943) 1944 Mi.3 Permission stamp for field post packages up to 2 Kg (24.11.1944) 'FELDPOST/ 2 kg' overprint on Mi.795 (40 Pf) Mi.4 Permission stamp for field post Christmas packages up to 1000 g from homeland to front (20.10.1944) Local issues 1943 Mi.5 Permission stamp for field post for the troops in North Africa. Tunis (April 1943) Island Post Mi.6 Vukovar overprint (diagonal 'Inselpost' on Mi.2 B). October 1944 Mi.7 Crete overprint (horizontal 'Inselpost' in red on Mi.1). November 1944 Mi.8 Rhodes Island overprint (horizontal 'INSELPOST' on Mi.1). November 1944 Mi.9 Rhodes Island overprint (horizontal 'INSELPOST' on Mi.2 b). November 1944 Agram (Zagreb) Mi.10 Overprint (diagonal 'INSELPOST' on Mi.2 A and 2 B). November 1944 Leros Mi.11 Overprint (horizontal 'INSELPOST' on Mi.1). February 1945 Note: This type style was also overprinted on a small number of Mi.2 A and 2 B Rhodes Mi.12 Postage stamp for the Aegean Islands (Mi.105 from 1938/39) overprinted with 'WEIHNACHTEN/ 1944'. December 1944 U-BOOT SUBMARINE POST Mi.13 Permission stamp for the troops cut off on the Hela peninsula. March 1945 Note: During the years of German occupation of Poland (1939-1945), Hela's defences were further expanded, and a battery of three 40.6 cm SK C/34 gun was constructed, but the guns were soon moved to the Atlantic Wall in occupied France. Hela peninsula remained in German hands until the end of World War II, when the defending forces surrendered on 14 May 1945, six days after Germany capitulated. Kuban bridgehead Mi.14 Package permission stamp. Two printed lines '1 Päcken/ Front-Heimat'. April 1943 Crimea Mi.15 Package permission stamp. Three printed lines '1 Päcken/ Richtung/ Heimat'. November 1943 Courland Mi.16 Half of Mi.4 divided vertically used in Courland as permission stamp for air mail. March 1945 Ruhr Pocket Mi.17 Air mail permission stamp for the troops encircled in the Ruhr area (Mi.782 - 3 pf - with overprint 'Feldpost'). April 1945 Also catalogued but not listed: 'OSTPRUSSEN-FELDPOST' (1941), Salonika unofficials (May 1944), Århus (Denmark) private creation, the 'Narvik stamp' (Norway) private creation. Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Polizei-Präsident Postal stationery Polizei-Präsident Postal stationery Polizei-Präsident - Postal stationery Also see 21.10.1939 - 29/94 (Kiel) Polizei-Präsident - Postal stationery Harburg-Wilhelmsburg. Imprint: 'Din B 6 125x176/ Vordr. Pol. Nr.114'. Date cancel 08.1936. Ref: 06.08.1936 - 17/16 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Bibliography & Reference Bibliography & Reference Bibliography BIBLIOGRAPHY & WEBSITES BIBLIOGRAPHY Surname, forename (and full name of a collaborator) , title (place: publisher, date) 'Autolycus' (Howard Logden), The Polish Prisoner of War Camp Posts (Caldra House Limited, 1994 ) Billigs Philatelic Handbook Billig , F. Fritz, Billigs Philatelic Handbook, volumes 1-34 (early 1940s to 1970's over various editions). Contents that may aid research specific to the time-frame of the Brief History project (volume and page number in brackets): Bohemia & Moravia - German Protectorate stamps (17/76) Canada and Newfoundland WWII Army, Navy and Air Force Postmarks (7/92) , Channel Islands (13/109), Corfu - Italian Occupation (11/70) Denmark - Envelopes 1940-1944 (28/59) , Dictionary - Cyrillic (and non-Latin) place names (32/59) , Dunkerque - Occupation provisionals (28/62) Finland - Postal stationery 1940/45 (26/156) , Fiume - 1941, 1945 (7/109 & 117) , France - 1940,1943, Italian Occupation (7/128) Genral Gouvernment (28/63) German/Polish town names (6/97) Germany - Airmail stamps (13/94) , Germany - Allied AM POST postage stamps (26/159 ), Germany - Alsace , Lorraine and Luxembourg (27/198) , Germany - Apolda (27/141) Germany - Baden postage stamps 1947/48 (26/169 ), Germany - Berlin -Brandenburg (27/114) , Germany - Booklet Panes (6/58) Germany - Day of Victims of Fascism - forgeries (22/90) , Germany - Dobeln (27/140) Germany - Feldpost stamps (22/104) , Germany - Finsterwalde N.L. (27/142) , Germany - French Zone postage stamps 1945/46 (26/163 ) Germany - Glauchau Hitler-head occupation postage stamps 1947/48 (26/164 ), Germany - Gorlitz (27/138) , Germany - Grossraschen (27/142) Germany - Hela admission stamp (22/125) Germany - Inselpost (22/110) Germany - Kurland bisect green (22/124) , Germany - Kurland provisionals (22/126 & 28/78) Germany - Locals 1945/46 (7/147) , Germany - Locals 1945 of Meissen, Muehlberg, and Netzschkau-Reichenbach (22/95 & 27/150) Germany - Mecklenburg -Vorpommern (27/116) , Germany - Mecklenburg -Vorpommern 1946 forgeries (22/88) Germany - Niesky (27/139) Germany - Ostland (28/76) Germany - Pirna 1945 forged issue (22/95) , Germany - Plauen (27/152) , Germany - Post East (28/63) Germany - Rhineland -Palatinate postage stamps 1947/48 (26/171 ), Germany et al - Rocket mail (23/25 & 27/76 ) , Germany - Ruhr Pocket stamp (22/127) , Germany - Russian Zone Hitler-head obliterations (26/178) , Germany - Russian Zone of occupation (27/155 & 27/109) Germany - Saar territory postage stamps 1947/48 (26/173 ), Germany - Eastern Saxony (27/120) , Germany - Province of Saxony (27/129) , Germany - Western Saxony (27/125) , Germany - Spremberg (27/153) Germany - Thuringia (27/132) , Germany - Tunisia parcel stamp (22/120) Germany - Wurttemberg postage stamps 1947/48 (26/176 ) Great Britain - Letter-seals and labels of Allies in Great Britain (26/180) , Great Britain - Postal markings of the Allied forces in Great Britain 1940-1946 (23/91) , Greece - Italian Occupation (11/169) Ionian Islands - 1941 (11/175 ), Italy - Socialist Republic (11/175) Kotor/Cattaro (28/90) Laibach/Lubiana - 1941 & 1944 (11/182-183 & 28/91) , Liechtenstein - psotage stamps 1939- (32/37) , Ljady & Luga (28/84) Norway .- Military postal stationery (16/160 & 24/89) Philatelic dictionary - English (2/36) , Philatelic dictionary - German-English (13/151) , Pskov/Pleskau (28/85) Saar - Postage stamps to 1934 (25/141) , Serbia - German Occupation Air Mail Stamps (11/203) , Slovakia - Postage stamps 1939- (32/57) , Spain - Miniature sheets 1937/39 (8/32) , Sweden - postage stamps 1939- (6/197) , Sweden - Local issues 1940-1947 (24/123) Ukraine - German occupation (28/81) Zara (11/182 & 28/87) Brinitzer , Dr. Carl, War and Post-War German Dictionary (Cassell, 1945 ) Emory , John M. G., The source book of World War Two aircraft (Poole: Blandford Press, 1986 ) German Phrase Book, November 30, 1943 (War Department, Washington). Ref: 22/49 Germania - Journal of the Germany & Colonies Philatelic Society (UK) Gruner , Wolf, The Persecution and Murder of the European Jews by Nazi Germany 1933-1945. Volume 1. German Reich 1933-1937 (Oldenbourg: De Gruyter, 2019 ). Hammonds , John, Bohemia & Moravia, a collector's notebook. 2nd Ed. (Czechoslovak Philatelic Society of Great Britain, 2019 ) Harper , A, and Scheck , W., The Stamps of German Third Reich (private printing, n.d.) Hoover , Calvin B., Germany enters the Third Reich (London, Macmillan and Co., 1933 ) Houlihan , Thomas L., Kriegsprache (Lake Orion, Michigan: Maps At War, 2009) Meschenmoser , Alfred, Überroller-post 1945-1949 vom 'Dritten Reich' in das 'Nachkriegs-Deutschland' (Düsseldorf, Poststempelgilde 'Rhein-Donau' E.V., 1984 ) Michel Ganzsachen Deutschland 2018 (Schwaneberger Verlag GMBH, 2018 ) Middlebrook , Martin, and Everitt , Chris, The Bomber Command War Diaries. (London: Penguin Books Ltd, 1990 ) Oxford Pamphlets on World Affairs - various titles and authors from 1939 onwards (London: Oxford University Press) Riemer, Karl-Heinz, Devisenkontrolle im Auslandsbrief- und Paketverkehr im Deutschen Reich 1933 bis 1939 (Düsseldorf, Poststempelgilde 'Rhein-Donau' E.V., 1983 ) Simon , Sam, Handbook of the mail in the concentration camps 1933-1945. A Postal history (Port Printed Products, USA, 1973 ) Third Reich Study Group (TRSG) - Group news sheets 1976 - Present. Study group of the Germany & Colonies Philatelic Society (UK) Trevor-Roper , H.R., Hitler's War Direc tives 1939-1945 (London: Pan Boo ks Ltd, 1966 ) Trory , Ernest, XI Olympiad. A Philatelic History of the Olympic Games, Part 6, Garmisch-Partenkirsch - Berlin - Keil (1936). (Brighton: Crabtree Press, 1970 ) Words and Phrases in French , (The War Office, 1944 ). Ref: 22/50 Aeroplane, The (June 1940) Aircraft Identification, Friend or Foe? Part One: Fighters and Bombers . London: Temple Press Ltd Aeroplane, The (August 1940) Aircraft Identification, Friend or Foe? Part Two: Troop Carriers and Seaplanes . London: Temple Press Ltd Bender, Roger James (1995) Postcards of Hitler's Germany Volume 1. 1923 - 1936. California: R. James Bender Publishing Erler, M. (1995) The stamps of the NSDAP (Nazi Party) and it's sub-organisations. Icking: ORA-Verlag Hodgson, Vere., (1999) Few Eggs and No Oranges - (Diary written in the Notting Hill area of London, 1940-45). London: Persephone Books Hoover, Calvin B., (1933) Germany Enters The Third Reich. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited Kardorff, Ursula von., (1965) Diary of a Nightmare, Berlin 1942-1945 . London: Rupert Hart-Davis Landsmann, Horst (2019) Die Zensur von Zivilpost in Deutschland im 2. Weltkrieg . Norderstedt: BoD - Books on Demand Newport, William (1969) Specialised Price catalogue of the Channel Islands Stamps. Kent: Channel Islands Specialists' Society Price, Alfred (1977) Luftwaffe Handbook . London: Ian Allan Ltd Rust, W. (1939) Britons in Spain . London: Lawrence and Wishart Ltd Shirer, W.L. (1999) This is Berlin. London: Hutchinson Spot them in the Air! (c.1940) Published by the Daily Mirror. London:H. Clarke & Co. Ltd WEBSITES American Society for Netherlands Philately http://www.asnp1975.com/The_Society.html Article of interest from the ASNP magazine Netherlands Philately: Jan. 1978 The 1944 perforated cross - see Sept 1982, Sept. 1982 1944 Red Cross Perfins, Aug. 1983 Liberation stamps of 1944-46 Part 1, Aug. 1983 Holland: 1943-1944 Germanic symbols, Mar. 1986 Deutsche Dienstpost Niederlande Part 1, Jun. 1986 Deutsche Dienstpost Niederlande Part 2, Sept. 1986 Deutsche Dienstpost Niederlande Part 3, Jul. 1993 WWII Dutch mail to the Netherlands Indies, Jun. 1998 Machine cancels and their flags during WWII, Jan. 2002 Concentration camps in the Netherlands during the 1940-1945 occupation Part 1, May 2002 Concentration camps in the Netherlands during the 1940-1945 occupation Part 2, Sept. 2002 Concentration camps in the Netherlands during the 1940-1945 occupation Part 3, Sept. 2004 How the Netherlands missed its Occupation overprints, May 2012 Mail sent via Thomas Cook in Lisbon during WWII, Jul. 2012 Secret writing and chemical censoring of the mail by the German Postal Authority, Sept. 2022 Dutch food parcels for British POWs during WWII, Nov. 2022 The Colditz Story Part 1, Jan. 2023 The Colditz Story Part 2, Mar. 2023 The Colditz Story Part 3, May 2023 The Colditz Story Part 4, Sept. 2023 The Colditz Story Part 5, Nov. 2023 The Colditz Story Part 6. Battle of Britain battleofbritain1940.com Tuesday 30 July 1940 | The Battle of Britain Historical Timeline Night: South Wales and midlands. Weather: Unsettled, with drizzle and low cloud. Tuesday, 30 July 1940, was marked by unsettled conditions, with low cloud and persistent drizzle limiting large-scale… SS Arandora Star https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/replica-cruise-liner-nearly-destroyed-in-blitz-to-go-back-on-display/a/116863516.html Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

30th May 1947 30th May 1947 Bochmann Meiningen Commemorative postcard for the 'Kulturtage' in Meiningen 24th May - 1st June 1947 featuring special cancellation JB:Meiningen4/531. Ref: 30.05.1947 - 15/41 MEININGEN cancellations as featured in the Bochmann catalogues (1952) JB:Meiningen4/531 - 'Kulturtage/ 24.5.-1.6.1947'. Ref: 30.05.1947 15/41 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Mi.965-966 (02.09.1947) Leipzig Autumn Fair Mi.965-966 (02.09.1947) Leipzig Autumn Fair Leipzig Autumn Fair Mi.965-966 Mi.965-966 Leipzig Autumn Fair Souvenir Sheet for the Leipzig Autumn Fair (printers imprint 'Leipzig M3M/ Z5455', featuring Mi.965 and Mi.966. The image to the reverse depicts the charter where all three annual market/fair dates are confirmed for the first time by Royal Decree of the Roman-German King Maximilian I (appointed Holy Roman Emperor in 1508.) Ref: 03.09.1947 - 15/76 Notes: Four different editions of the sheet were produced with or without the printers mark. Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

12th December 1945 12th December 1945 Mi.P6 Schwerin

General Government Postage stamps General Government Postage stamps General Government Postage stamps Postage stamps of the General Government Mi.1-13 (01./04.12.1939) German Post in the East (Hindenburg medallion 'OSTEN' overprint) Mi.14-15 (08./18.03.1940) Field Marshall Edward Śmigty-Rydz - Polish stamps with surcharge overprint Mi.16 (08./18.03.1940) President Ignacy Moscicki - Polish stamp with surcharge overprint Mi.17-29 (08./18.03.1940) Anniversary of the Republic of Poland - Polish stamps with surcharge overprint Mi.30-32 (08./18.03.1940) Winter Welfare - Polish stamps with surcharge overprint Mi.33-34 (08.03.1940) Queen Jadwiga and King Jagiello of Lithuania - Polish stamps with surcharge overprint Mi.35-39 (18.03.1940) Postage due stamps from Poland - Polish stamps with surcharge overprint Mi.40-51 (05.08./05.09.1940) Regular issue - Buildings Mi.52-55 (17.08.1940) Red Cross Mi.56-58 (26.10.1940) 1st Anniversary of the General Government Mi.59-61 (01.12.1940) Winter Relief Mi.63-65 (20.04./10.07.1941) Buildings - see 22.05.1941 - 32/99 (Mi.63) Mi.66-70 (15.08./08.09.1941) Regular issue - Buildings Mi.71-82 (26.10.1941) Regular issue - Adolf Hitler Mi.83-88 (07.04.1942/1944) Regular issue - Adolf Hitler Mi.89-91 (20.04.1942) 53rd Birthday of Adolf Hitler Mi.92-95 (15.08.1942) 600th Anniversary of City of Lubin see 03.10.1942 (Mi.GG94) Mi.96-100 (20.11.1942) Cultural figures Mi.101-103 (20.04.1943) 54th Birthday of Adolf Hitler Mi.104 (23.05.1943) 400th Anniversary of the death of Nicolaus Copernicus (As Mi.100 but in a different colour and vertical death date - also in a commemorative sheet of 5x2) Mi.105-109 (13.08./14.09.1943) 3rd Anniversary of the NSDAP in the General Government Mi.110-112 (25.06./15.07.1943) Regular issue - Adolf Hitler Mi.113-116 (10.04.1943/11.02.1944) Regular issue - Buildings Mi.117-119 (20.04.1944) 55th Birthday of Adolf Hitler Mi.120-124 (15.07.1944) Cultural figures Mi.125 (26.10.1944) 5th Anniversary of the General Government Official Stamps Mi.1-15 (01.04./05.04.1940) Official Stamps - sovereignty symbol - Large format Mi.16-24 (22.07./05.08.1940) Official Stamps - sovereignty symbol - Small format Mi.25-36 (02.1943) Official Stamps - sovereignty symbol over Krakow Castle Delivery Stamps Mi.1-4 (01.12.1940) Delivery stamps - numerals in oval decoration Radio Stamps Mi.1-2 (01.07.1940) Radio stamps - '4/Rundfunk' and 'A/Rundfunk' Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

11th July 1945 Pages from 'PUNCH' 11th July 1945 Pages from PUNCH Victory Parade Cartoon form PUNCH magazine 11th July 1945. A cartoon most likely pre-empting the British victory parade in Berlin (21st July 1945). The caption reads MONS TO BERLIN "Well, the boys have got there at last." British victory parade in Berlin From Wikipedia: The 1945 British victory parade in Berlin was a military parade held by the British Army on 21st July 1945 in Berlin, the capital of the then-defeated Germany. It took place on Straße des 17. Juni, which is east of Brandenburg Gate. The parade took place a month after the Moscow Victory Parade of 1945 and over six weeks before the Berlin Victory Parade. It was attended by Winston Churchill in his position as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, Commander-in-Chief of the 21st Army Group. Clement Attlee, who was Leader of the Labour Party at the time and succeeded Churchill 5 days later, also attended. The parade occurred during the Potsdam Conference which had begun 4 days earlier with the participation of Churchill, Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin and President Harry S. Truman. 10,000 troops of the British Army took part in the event. Attendees also included Henry H. Arnold and George Marshall, both five-star Generals. (Note: It appears that the PUNCH cartoon depicts elements of the British 7th Armoured Division.) Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page