Booklet Sheets (MHB) Booklet Sheets (MHB) Booklet Sheets (MHB) Cover featuring stamps from booklet sheet MHB 28 (Friedrich the Great, 1933). Ref: 01.11.1933 Booklet Sheets German stamp sequences taken from booklet sheets 1933 MHB 27 - Friedrich the Great (6 Pf) MHB 28 - Friedrich the Great (12 Pf) MHB 29 - Hindenburg (6 Pf) MHB 30 - Hindenburg (5 Pf +12 Pf) MHB 31 - Hindenburg (8 Pf +12 Pf) MHB 32 - Wagner (6 Pf + 4 Pf) MHB 33 - Wagner (8 Pf + 12 pf) 1934 MHB 34 - Hindenburg (1 Pf + 3 Pf + 5 Pf) MHB 35 - Hindenburg (5 Pf + 8 Pf) MHB 36 - Hindenburg (6 Pf) MHB 37 - Hindenburg (6 Pf + 12 Pf) MHB 53 - Professions (4 Pf + 6 Pf) MHB 54 - Professions (8 Pf + 12 Pf) 1935 MHB 55 - Folk Costumes (5 Pf + 6 Pf) MHB 56 - Folk Costumes (3 Pf + 12 Pf) 1936 MHB 38 - Hindenburg (6 Pf) MHB 39 - Hindenburg (12 Pf) MHB 40 - Hindenburg (3 Pf + 5 Pf) MHB 41 - Hindenburg (1 Pf + 8 Pf) MHB 57 - Olympic Games (3 Pf + 12 Pf) MHB 58 - Olympic Games (4 Pf + 6 Pf) MHB 59 - Modern Buildings (5 Pf + 6 Pf) MHB 60 - Modern Buildings (3 Pf + 12 Pf) 1937 MHB 42 - Hindenburg (4 Pf + 12 Pf) MHB 43 - Hindenburg (1 Pf + 12 Pf) MHB 44 - Hindenburg (3 Pf + 6 Pf) MHB 45 - Hindenburg (5 Pf + 6 Pf + 8 Pf) MHB 61 - Ships (5 Pf + 6 Pf) MHB 62 - Ships (3 Pf + 12 Pf) 1938 MHB 63 - Ostmark scenery and flowers (5 Pf + 6 Pf) MHB 64 - Ostmark scenery and flowers (3 Pf + 12 Pf) 1939 MHB 46 - Hindenburg (1 Pf + 4 Pf) MHB 47 - Hindenburg (3 Pf + 12 Pf) MHB 48 - Hindenburg (5 Pf + 6 Pf) MHB 49 - Hindenburg (6 Pf) MHB 50 - Hindenburg (8 Pf + 12 Pf) MHB 65 - Buildings (5 Pf + 6 Pf) MHB 66 - Buildings (3 Pf + 12 Pf) EGB 1 (1.1 & 1.2) - Hindenburg (Vending Machine, 1 Pf + 5 Pf + 3 Pf + 1 Pf sequence) 1940 MHB 49.3 - Hindenburg (6 Pf) MHB 51 - Hindenburg (1 Pf + 4 Pf + 5 Pf + 6 Pf) MHB 52 - Hindenburg (3 Pf + 8 Pf + 12 Pf) MHB 67 - Buildings (5 Pf + 6 Pf) MHB 68 - Buildings (3 Pf + 12 Pf) EGB 2 - Hindenburg (Vending Machine, 5 Pf + 1 Pf + 1 Pf + 3 Pf sequence - Slogan 'Unterstützt/ bei/ NS.-Volks-/ Wohlfahrt!' ) 1941 MHB 69 - Adolf Hitler (1 Pf + 3 Pf + 5 Pf + 6 Pf) MHB 70 - Adolf Hitler (4 Pf + 6 Pf + 8 Pf) MHB 71 - Adolf Hitler (4 Pf + 6 Pf + 8 Pf + Slogan variation to MHB 70) MHB 72 - Adolf Hitler (12 Pf) EGB 3 - Hindenburg (Vending Machine, 5 Pf + 1 Pf + 1 Pf + 3 Pf sequence - Slogan 'Spare/ bei der/ Post-/sparkasse!' ) Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

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10th June 1945 10th June 1945 Italian POW lettersheet most likely sent from Camp 308 in Libya. Featuring a censors hand stamp 'P/W MIDDLE/ EAST. 127' (Ref: CM1). Ref: 10.06.1945 The letter enclosed can be translated in the following way: 'Reverend To you once again, at least my request for news from you, I greet you, I am in good health as I hope you are. It is now 22 months that I receive nothing from home, nor from anyone else but I hope to soon as some of my friends have. We are well organised, we have our little Church and every Sunday we listen to the Mass and to ?? to help us be repatriated soon as I love the house of ?? and LA PATRIA not this sand of Africa, but that you also pray for our dear prisoners as I know that you pray for us. I am not more desperate because in these sad last months of 1943 which I bravely supported from the Germans on that Island I was always resigned to God and ?? who saved us from great danger. It is 18 months that we are with the Allies and we are very well but thoughts towards home are not missing because we need to turn them always to home. Best Wishes and Regards Salvatore Greetings to my family'

French Zone Postage Stamps 1945-1947 French Zone Postage Stamps 1945-1947 French Zone Postage Stamp issues 1945-1947 Registered cover posted from Kaiserslautern to Landsweiler-Reden. Featuring various French Zone definitive postage stamps from the 'Coats of Arms/Poets' issue. Ref: 26.02.1947 - 14/101 French Zone Postage Stamp issues 1945 - 1947 General Issue Mi.1-13 (12.1945 - 04.1946) Definitive Postage Stamps: Coats of Arms/ German poets As above: Gutter Pairs As above: Corner edge with printing date Baden Mi.1-13 (01.05.1947 - 01.1948) Definitive Postage Stamps: Personalities/ views of Baden Mi.14 - 27 (21.06.1948 - 09.1948) Definitive Postage Stamps: Personalities/ views of Baden Mi.28 - 37 (11.1948 - 05.1949) Definitive Postage Stamps: Personalities/ views of Baden Mi.38A/B - 41A/B, and Blocks 1A/B (24.03.1949) Reconstruction of the City of Freiburg Mi.42A/B - 45A/B, and Blocks 2 I/II (25.02.1949) German Red Cross Mi.46 (22.06.1949 - 08.1949) European Engineer Congress, Constance Mi.47 - 49 (12.08.1949) 200th birthday of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Mi.50 - 52 (24.08.1949) Centennial of the Baden Revolution led by Karl Schurz Mi.53 (27.08.1949) Centenary of Conradin Kreutzer's death Mi.54 - 55 (17.09.1949) Centennial of German postage stamps Mi.56 - 57 (04.10.1949) 75th Anniversary of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) Rhine Palatinate Mi.1-15 (05.05.1947 - 02.1948) Definitive Postage Stamps: Personalities/ views of Rhine Palatinate Mi.16 - 29 (21.06.1948 - 08.1948) Definitive Postage Stamps: Personalities/ views of Rhine Palatinate Mi.30 - 31 (18.10.1948) Hilfswerk Ludwigshafen Mi.31 - 41 (11.1948 - 07.1949) Definitive Postage Stamps: Personalities/ views of Rhine Palatinate Mi.42A/B - 45A/B, and Blocks 1 I/II (25.02.1949) German Red Cross Mi.46 - 48 (12.08.1949) 200th birthday of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Mi.49 - 50 (17.09.1949) Centennial of German postage stamps Mi.51 - 52 (04.10.1949) 75th Anniversary of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) Württemberg-Hohenzollern Mi.1-13 (15.06.1947 - 02.1948) Definitive Postage Stamps: Personalities/ views of Württemberg-Hohenzollern Mi.14 - 27 (21.06.1948 - 08.1948) Definitive Postage Stamps: Personalities/ views of Rhine Palatinate Mi.28 - 37 (11.1948 - 18.07.1949) Definitive Postage Stamps: Personalities/ views of Rhine Palatinate Mi.38 - 39 (11.02.1949) German Ski Championships (Nordic Combination), Isny Mi.40A/B - 43A/B, and Block 1/I (25.02.1949) German Red Cross Mi.44 - 46 (12.08.1949) 200th birthday of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Mi.47 - 48 (03.09.1949) 100th anniversary of teh Gustav-Werner Foundation Mi.49 - 50 (17.09.1949) Centennial of German postage stamps Mi.51 - 52 (04.10.1949) 75th Anniversary of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) Compulsary Surtax Stamps (Württemberg) Mi.1 - 2 (01.07.1949 - 08.1949) Residential Construction Surcharge Issue (Notopfer Berlin with overprints in red) Mi.3 (08.1949 - 10.1949) Residential Construction Surcharge Issue (Final edition) Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

2nd October 1945 2nd October 1945 Fakes? 'Note that Franz Massino, the Fredersdorf postmaster, kept the F.M seal in his family. I once met his son in ~1993 and was allowed to overprint some modern postage for myself and other collectors of Fredersdorf provisionals. A few years after that, the F.M seal has been auctioned in Berlin and said to be purchased by the post museum in Berlin. Never checked this information' Philipp Harder - taken from Stampboards.com

5th September 1945 Pages from 'PUNCH' 5th September 1945 Pages from PUNCH Japanese audacity Cartoon from PUNCH magazine 5th September 1945. Japan, in an audacious act of apology to the war-torn barren wastes of China. The caption reads TOUJOURS L'AUDACE ["We should be courageous enough to apologize to the Chinese..." - A Japanese general .] The Second Sino-Japanese War From Wikipedia: The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan from 1937 to 1945, as part of World War II . In China, the war is called the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. This total war between China and the Empire of Japan is often regarded as the beginning of World War II in Asia, although some scholars consider the European War and the Pacific War to be entirely separate, albeit concurrent. It was the largest Asian war in the 20th century and has been described as 'the Asian Holocaust ', in reference to the scale of Imperial Japan's war crimes against Chinese civilians. After the Japanese attacks on Malaya and Pearl Harbor in 1941, the war merged with other conflicts which are generally categorized under the China Burma India Theater of World War II. Japanese apologies From Wikipedia: At the end of the Pacific Theater of World War II, the Imperial Japanese government accepted the terms of the Potsdam Declaration. In 1945, the unconditional surrender of the Empire of Japan was formally confirmed aboard the Allied battleship, USS Missouri (BB-63). Once the formal documents were signed, General Douglas MacArthur, representing the Allies, was named the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers in Japan. Emperor Hirohito let it be known to General MacArthur that he was prepared to apologize formally to General MacArthur for Japan's actions during World War II—including an apology for the 7th December 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor. In one version of the formal apology, Emperor Hirohito, the Japanese monarch, is reported to have said to General MacArthur: 'I come before you to offer myself to the judgment of the powers you represent, as one to bear sole responsibility for every political and military decision made and action taken by my people in the conduct of the war.' In a second version of the formal apology, Patrick Lennox Tierney claims that he was an eyewitness when the Emperor came to the Allied Supreme Commander's headquarters to present this apology. Tierney was in his office on the fifth floor of the Dai-Ichi Insurance Building in Tokyo. This was the same floor where MacArthur's suite was situated. Tierney reported that when the emperor arrived, MacArthur refused to admit him or acknowledge him, and the pivotal moment passed. Many years later, Tierney made an effort to explain his understanding of the significance of what he claimed he had personally witnessed: 'Apology is a very important thing in Japan. ... It was the rudest, crudest, most uncalled for thing I have ever witnessed in my life.' Whether true or not—issues which might have been addressed were allowed to remain open, and unanticipated consequences have unfolded across the decades since then. Some in Japan have asserted that what is being demanded is that the Japanese Prime Minister or even the Emperor himself perform dogeza, in which an individual kneels and bows his head to the ground—a high form of apology in East Asian societies that Japan appears unwilling to do. Some point to an act by West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, who knelt at a monument to the Jewish victims of the Warsaw Ghetto, in 1970, as an example of a powerful and effective act of apology and reconciliation similar to dogeza. Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

17th November 1947 17th November 1947 Bastogne Belgo-American Association commemorative cover for the laying of the Bastogne Memorial corner stone and the flying of Ardennes earth to Washington. Dated 4th July 1946 Belgo-American Association commemorative cover for the laying of the Bastogne Memorial corner stone and the flying of Ardennes earth to Washington. Dated 4th July 1946 Cover sent from Victor Jonckheere of Brussels to Joseph Catalino in Norwood, Massachusetts. Inside the envelope a letter explains the gift of the Belgo-American Association commemorative cover (dated 4th July 1946). Ref: 17.11.1947 - 10/9

2nd November 1947 2nd November 1947 Schabisch Hall Mi.959 Wrapper (re-directed) featuring stamp Mi.959 (definitive - Second Control Commission issue). Ref: 02.11.1947 - 10/54

18th November 1947 Deutsche Bank Mainz 18th November 1947 Deutsche Bank Mainz Commercial postcard sent from the Rheinische Kreditbank (Deutsche Bank) in Mainz to the Municipal Savings Bank in Remscheid. Featuring postage stamp Mi.2 (3 pf - Rhine Palatinate definitive). Ref: 18.11.1947 - 16/46 The card has a printed declaration to the reverse that seeks to clarify the whereabouts of a missing cheque that has been lost in the chaos of the war. The message reads: 'On 23.1. 1945 we sent the following cheque to our collection agency, made out to yourself Org. Nr. 53323 RM 16.47 We are unable to find out anything about its fate for known reasons. We would therefore ask you to inform us on the attached reply card whether the above cheque has come into your possession and, if so, when it was cashed. We thank you in advance for your efforts.' Deutsche Bank - Mainz Branch In 1909, Disconto-Gesellschaft, Berlin, took over Bankhaus Bamberger & Co, Mainz, which was founded in 1841. In 1908, Bankhaus Bamberger & Co. took over Bankhaus Gebr. Oppenheim, Mainz, which was founded in 1840. Following the merger with Deutsche Bank, the Mainz branch of Disconto-Gesellschaft was merged with the Mainz branch of Deutsche Bank on 29th October 1929. Post-war In the French Zone, Deutsche Bank is divided into three regional banks, according to Order No. 25 issued by the Commandant en Chef Français en Allemagne on 29th September 1947: in Rhineland-Palatinate: Rheinische Kreditbank , Ludwigshafen, in Baden: Oberrheinische Bank, Freiburg, in Württemberg-Hohenzollern: Württembergische Vereinsbank, Reutlingen. Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

SAAR SAAR Saar directory SAAR Directory for items of interest within the Brief History collection About the Saar referendum of 1935 Postcards of the referendum with 'Todesanzeige/ Status Quo' obituary slogan Postcards of the referendum (before the result) Postcards of the referendum (after the vote of 13th January 1935) Stamps of the Saar issued with 'VOLKSABSTIMMUNG 1935' o/print Stamps of the Saar (other than 'Volksabstimmung') Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

14th February 1945 Pages from 'PUNCH' 14th February 1945 Pages from PUNCH Ghost of Friedrich the Great Cartoon from PUNCH magazine 14th February 1945. Hitler precariously straddles Frederick the Great's shoulders in a balancing act as his armies try to escape the eastern onslaught. The caption reads THE ROPE-WALKER Shade of Frederick the Great: 'I know I brought it off - but then I didn't have you on my back." Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

16th November 1945 16th November 1945 Provinz Sachsen Mi.71 Cover sent from Magdeburg to Ballenstedt (Harz), featuring stamp Mi.71. Ref: 16.11.45