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20th October 1941 Brazil/Censor/SA Straße 20.10.1941 Brazil censor reverse.jpeg 20.10.1941 Brazil censor reverse.jpeg 1/1 Cover sent from Brazil to 'SA Strasse' in Neuenhagen, Berlin. Featuring varios German censors and a Brazilian postage stamp (Mi.552). Ref: 20.10.1941 - 15/72 (reference/date is first day of Mi.552 issue. Used due to lack of date clarity on the franking). Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page
18th August 1941 St.Moritz Hotel 18.08.1941 St. Moritz Hotel censor reverse.jpeg 18.08.1941 St. Moritz Hotel censor reverse.jpeg 1/1 Hotel stationery for the 'St.Moritz on-the-park', New York. Sent to an address in Berlin. Featuring various censors. With return address at the Hotel Bolivar. Note the 'Dead Letter Office' announcement printed on the envelope flap. Ref: 18.08.1941 St.Moritz on-the-park The Hotel St. Moritz was built on the site of the old New York Athletic Club. The hotel was designed and built in 1930 by the Hungarian-born architect Emery Roth, and constructed by the Harper Organization, representing Harris Uris and Percy Uris. The estimated cost was about $6 million. In 1932, the Bowery Savings Bank took over the hotel and then sold it to the Engadine Corporation, led by the Greek-American hotel magnate S. Gregory Taylor (1888–1948). In 1950, the hotel was completely redecorated and redesigned, and, from the following year on, it housed the Café de la Paix, said to be the first sidewalk restaurant in New York City. Source: Wikipedia Link to interesting blog that is set in the Hotel Bolivar Dead Letter Office A dead letter office (DLO) is a facility within a postal system where undeliverable mail is processed. Mail is considered to be undeliverable when the address is invalid so it cannot be delivered to the addressee, and there is no return address so it cannot be returned to the sender. At a DLO, mail is usually opened to try to find an address to forward to. If an address is found, the envelope is usually sealed using tape or postal seals, or enclosed in plastic bags and delivered. If the letter or parcel is still undeliverable, valuable items are then auctioned off while the correspondence is usually destroyed. Despite this practice, in the past some undeliverable envelopes were acquired by philatelists. Dead letter offices go by different names in different countries. In many English-speaking countries they are called returned letter offices. The U.S. Post Office, as it was known then, started a dead letter office in 1825 to deal with undeliverable mail. By 1893, it handled about 20,000 items every day. In 2006, approximately 90 million undeliverable-as-addressed (UAA) items ended up in the dead-letter office of the U.S. Postal Service; when the rightful owners cannot be identified, the correspondence is destroyed to protect customer privacy, and enclosed items of value are removed. Source: Wikipedia Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page
25th April 1941 Otto Meissner 'Signature' 1/1 Original award document stating, The Führer and Chancellor of the Reich has issued the following decree today Retired Tax Inspector Reinhold Koebke Mainz-Gonsenheim in recognition of 25 years of loyal service the Silver Badge of Honour for Loyal Service Berlin, 25 April 1941 The Minister of State and Chief of the Presidential Chancellery of the Führer and Reich Chancellor. (Ref: 25.04.1941 - 11/20) This is an original 3rd Reich document from 1941. It does, however, contain the facsimile signature of Otto Meissner. Beware. These are very realistic and can be difficult to authenticate. So look for how even the ink nib pressure is on the paper. It shouldn't be the same from start to finish. If there is a cross-over (e.g. the cross bar on a 't' etc.), then this intersection will be darker. Also, compare with other signatures from that person on the internet. The image below is an example from an auction site. The signatures are the same. A copy like the one is approximately €40.
Mi.65-72 (28.07.1941/1942) B&M Definitives 1/1 Parcel card for a package sent from a German soldier in Schlan/Slany in Bohemia and Moravia to Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz. Featuring two B&M definitives (Mi.71). Ref: 13.05.1942 - 7/77 Notes on the soldiers infantry battalion: The battalion was set up on 10th September 1939 in Nuremberg, in Military District XIII. The Infantry Replacement Battalion 480 was subordinate to Division 173 and provided a replacement for the 260th Infantry Division. On 20th July 1941, the battalion was relocated to Schlan in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. From that day on, the battalion was also subordinate to Division 193. On 1st October 1942, the battalion was divided into an Infantry Replacement Battalion 480 and an Infantry Training Battalion 480. Both battalions were renamed Grenadier Replacement Battalion 480 and Grenadier Training Battalion 480 on 7th November 1942. On 10th April 1943, both battalions were merged to form the Grenadier Replacement and Training Battalion 480. On 13th December 1943, the training battalion was transferred to the 271st Infantry Division and thus disbanded. As a result, the battalion was again called the Grenadier Replacement Battalion 480. On 26th March 1945, the battalion was mobilised with 6 companies, again as the Grenadier Replacement and Training Battalion 480. Mi.65 - 52 Bohemia and Moravia definitives Mi.65a (28th July) Ref: 02.09.1941 - 8/50 Mi.66b (early 1942) Ref: 20.04.1942 Mi.68a (28th July). Ref: 02.10.1941 - 2/120 Mi.69 (1941 or '42?). Ref: 20.04.1942 Mi.70 (1941 or '42?). Ref:17.01.1942 - 1/83 Mi.71 (1941 or '42?). Ref: 13.05.1942 - 7/77 Mi.72 (1941 or '42?). Ref: 17.01.1942 - 1/83 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page
15th September 1941 Stalag I-A 15.09.1941 Stalag 1-A reverse.jpeg 15.09.1941 Stalag 1-A reverse.jpeg 1/1 POW reply letter-sheet sent to Stalag I-A at Stablack (Eastern Prussia) from an address in Belgium. At the time of this correspondence there were approximately 8,000 Belgian POW's held at the camp. Ref: 15.09.1941 Stalag I-A Stalag I-A operated in Stablack (Eastern Prussia) from 6th September 1939. In January 1945 it was still operating. Reply postcard sent to an Italian POW at Stalag I-A, Stablack, then redirected to I-B ('IB'), in Mehlsack, a town in northern Poland now called Pieniężno. More research required as no information readily available regarding a sub-camp of Stalag I-B (Hohenstein) at Mehlsack. Ref: 07.09.1944 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page
30th March 1941 7th KWHW Strassensammlung 30.03.1941 KWHW Winterhilfswerk Fingerhut reverse.jpeg 30.03.1941 KWHW Winterhilfswerk Fingerhut reverse.jpeg 1/1 Commemorative postcard issued for the 7th KWHW Winterhilfswerk street collection, sponsored by the KdF 'Strength through Joy' collectors' groups. There are four postcards in the set. This one is titled 'Fingerhut' (Foxglove). The selling price is indicated as 25 Pf. Rarely seen postally used. Ref: 30.01.1941, SSB41/3ii Further postcards in the series of four Huflattich (Coltsfoot). Featuring Mi.751 (3 Pf - Winter Relief Issue, Nov. 1940). Ref: 30.03.1941, SSB41/3iii Birke (Birch). Featuring Mi.751 (3 Pf - Winter Relief Issue, Nov. 1940). Ref: 29.03.1941, SSB41/3i Wegwarte und Mohn (Chicory and poppy). Featuring Mi.751 (3 Pf - Winter Relief Issue, Nov. 1940). Ref: 29.03.1941, SSB41/3iv Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page
1st November 1941 1/1 Commercial postcard sent by Th. Rose of Hamburg. Featuring a Francotyp Model 'C' cancel (D3). To the reverse is displayed the emblem of 'Die Deutsche Arbeitsfront' encircled with the words 'GAUDIPLOM FÜR HERVORRAGENDE LEISTUNGEN'. Design for the 'Gau Certificate for Exceptional Accomplishment' https://germanartgallery-eu.translate.goog/gaudiplom-fur-hervorragende-leistungen-iron-cast/?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc
19th October 1941 Kolmar 19.10.1941 Kolmar reverse.jpeg 19.10.1941 Kolmar reverse.jpeg 1/1 Postcard sent from Kolmar depicting 'Adolf Hitlerstrasse' (now Avenue de la République, Colmar). Ref: 19.10.1941 Link to the same view today Kolmar Colmar (German: Kolmar ) is a city and commune in the Haut-Rhin department and Grand Est region of north-eastern France. The third-largest commune in Alsace (after Strasbourg and Mulhouse), it is the seat of the prefecture of the Haut-Rhin department and of the subprefecture of the Colmar-Ribeauvillé arrondissement. With the rest of Alsace, Colmar was annexed by the newly formed German Empire in 1871 as a result of the Franco-Prussian War and incorporated into the Alsace-Lorraine province. It returned to France after World War I according to the 1919 Treaty of Versailles , was annexed by Nazi Germany in 1940, and then reverted to French control after the battle of the ' Colmar Pocket ' in 1945. Source: Wikipedia Postcard depicting a view of Colmar. Posted whilst under German Occupation and featuring a 6 Pf Hindenburg Medallion definitive overprinted with 'Elsaß' (Mi.4). Ref: 17.05.1941 The 2nd February 1945 is a key date in the city´s history. For the citizens of Colmar, it marked the end of the war, even if fighting continued for a time elsewhere in Europe. The battle of the Colmar pocket was the last to be fought on French soil. Three whole months would pass between the liberation of Strasburg and the one of Colmar, with desperate German resistance holding up the Allied advance before finally collapsing. The operation was supposed to be done in a short period of time. In November 1944, General De Lattre de Tassigny´s 1st Army launched a crushing offensive in the south of Alsace that broke through the German front line to take Belfort and then pushed on to the Rhine, liberating Mulhouse on 21st November. Two days later, General Leclerc´s 2nd armoured division entered Strasburg, after a campaign that had started in Koufra in Chad. The liberation of Alsace then seemed to be a question of days or even hours. The panic-stricken Nazi authorities in Colmar had already fled the city and the Colmarians were getting ready to celebrate their liberation. But then the Americans wavered and De Lattre decided to call a halt to his offensive in the plain of Alsace and to withdraw the 5th armoured division to the rear of the French lines. The German reaction was swift. Operation Nordwind was launched on 1st January 1945 in the north of Alsace, as part of the German counter-attack that had already successfully regained the initiative in the Ardennes since 16th December 1944. In Upper Alsace, since December, the French troops had been halted to the north of Mulhouse and to the south of Ribeauvillé and Riquewihr. On 22nd January 1945, despite the freezing cold and the snow, General de Lattre launched a pincer movement to liberate Colmar and reach the Rhine at Brisach. Colmar was skirted from the north and the west. General Schlesser´s daring night attack on 1st and 2nd February brought the French army into Colmar and the city was at long last liberated. Fighting in the Colmar pocket would continue until 9th February. The battle itself had lasted twenty one days in freezing conditions and resulted in heavy Allied losses, with 8,000 American dead and 16,000 French. The 19th German Army, under General Raspe, lost over 20,000 men, with a further 16,000 been taken prisoners. Source: tourisme-colmar.com Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page