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Hotels Postal Stationery Hotels Postal Stationery 18.08.1941 St. Moritz Hotel censor reverse.jpeg 18.08.1941 St. Moritz Hotel censor reverse.jpeg 1/1 Postal stationery from the 'St.Moritz on-the-park' hotel in New York. Air-mail cover sent to Germany featuring censor tape and hand-stamps. Ref: 18.08.1941 - 15/73 Hotel postal stationery Bohemia & Moravia Hotel Národní Dum , Čelákovice (see 17.07.1940 - 9/25) Germany Hotel Bristol , Unter den Linden, Berlin Hotel Senefelder Hof, Senefelderstrasse, Munich USA St.Moritz , Central Park, New York (with additional information on the Hotel Bolivar, N.Y.) Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

1st September 1941 MHB 51 1st September 1941 MHB 51 01.09.1941 MHB 51.jpeg 01.09.1941 MHB 51.jpeg 1/1 Postcard sent from Grein to Vienna, featuring postage stamps from MHB 51 (most likely from booklet H-pane 98) and including stamp sequences W89, S211, and S171. Ref: 01.09.1941 Stamp sequences from booklet sheet MHB 51 Note that booklet sheet MHB 51 contains four different value stamps (plus two slogan labels). The left section features the 1 Pf (Mi.512) and 4 Pf (Mi.514), together with label A17. Whilst the right section contains the 5 Pf (Mi.515) and 6 Pf (Mi.516), together with label A14. The two sections are separated by two gutters with vertical lined ladders. MHB 51 - left section MHB 51 - central gutters KZ36 (Mi.515+Z+Z+Mi.516) from MHB 51. Ref: 23.10.1940 - 15/71 MHB 51 - right section Stamp sequence taken from the right portion of sheet MHB 51 (A14+Mi.515+Mi.515+Mi.516). Ref: 24.09.1943 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

23rd February 1944 Arado G.m.b.H., Paris 23rd February 1944 Arado G.m.b.H., Paris 23.02.1944 Arado reverse.jpeg 23.02.1944 Arado reverse.jpeg 1/1 Cover via feldpost from Arado Flugzeugwerke G.m.b.H. (possible liaison office to the Société Industrielle Pour l'Aéronautique, Paris) to a manufacturer in Rackwitz. Featuring the Paris 'A.x' pass-through censor (HL:XD1.1/326). Ref: 23.02.1944 ARADO AND SIPA SIPA (Société Industrielle Pour l'Aéronautique). This company was founded in Neuilly in 1938 as a subcontractor to the French aviation industry. The SIPA workshops were located on the Ile de Jatte which is a large two kilometre long island in the Seine river between Neuilly-sur-Seine and Levallois-Perret on one side and Courbevoie on the other (north-western suburbs of Paris). SIPA produced (and delivered ?) at least 20 Ar 199A models and was later also involved in production work on the Arado 234 jet. SIPA's relationship with Arado apparently pre-dated the outbreak of war. The subject of French production of Luftwaffe aircraft is a fascinating one and as we know, for example from the history of the Fw 190 and the Ju 88, the French were very good at building German aircraft. It wasn't a question either of the French having to 'cooperate' - the Vichy French authorities had very quickly opened negociations with their new German masters in an attempt to preserve employment and some of their manufacturing base in France by offering to produce spares and even complete airframes for German aircraft manufacturers. SIPA evidently continued to work with the Germans and liaise with Arado in particular. In 1942 Arado specifically assigned SIPA the task of development work on an advanced training aircraft which led to the post-war French training type, the SIPA S-10 which first flew in 1944. https://falkeeins.blogspot.com/2010/12/arado-ar-199-seaplane-rainer-kockers.html Contact Brief History to inform us of additonal information regarding this page

Winterhilfewerk d.Deutsche Volkes postcards 1933/34 Winterhilfewerk d.Deutsche Volkes postcards 1933/34 1/1 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

20th January 1940 JB:Ballenstedt 20.01.1940 W141 reverse.jpeg 20.01.1940 W141 reverse.jpeg 1/1 Cover sent from Ballenstedt to Bernburg. Featuring W141 (A11.4 + 12 + A11.4). Ref: 20.01.1940 BALLENSTEDT cancellations as featured in the Bochmann catalogues (1952) JB:Ballenstedt3/78 - 'Ferienziel/ im Harz' (featuring Schloß Ballenstedt). Ref: 20.01.1940 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

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10th November 1941 Stalag XIII-B 10th November 1941 Stalag XIII-B Stalag XIII-B in Weiden. Postal Parcel instructions sent to a correspondent in Belgium. Reverse. Stalag XIII-B in Weiden. Postal Parcel instructions sent to a correspondent in Belgium. Reverse. 1/1 Stalag XIII-B, Weiden. Postal Parcel instructions sent to a correspondent in Belgium. According to Mattiello (2003) there were approximately 1,780 Belgian POWs within the camp at this time. Ref: 10.11.1941 Stalag XIII-B Stalag XIII-B opened in 1940 near the town of Weiden in Germany, and housed prisoners of war from many nations: Russia, Great Britain, the U.S., France, Belgium, Poland, Serbia, Spain, and Yugoslavia. At its peak, in April of 1944, the camp held around 35,000 men. Roughly 90% of the men were assigned to work details in the Weiden area. Some worked on farms, others in factories, and some unlucky prisoners were sent to work in nearby coal mines under brutal conditions. Instructions regarding the sending of parcels to POW's at Stalag XIII-B. From a Belgian POW. Ref: 10.11.1941 The Western POW's were kept separate from the large number of Russian prisoners. Stalin hadn't signed the Geneva Convention and the treatment of the Soviet prisoners was appalling. The mortality rate was extremely high from malnutrition and disease. A gruesome consequence: the mayor of Weiden in 1941 asked the commandant of the nearby Flossburg concentration camp for permission to send the dead Russian prisoners to their crematorium, because the town cemetery was getting too full. In 1945, after the Flossburg camp was shut down, 26 Russians were buried in the Weiden cemetery and are still there. All the other POW's buried in the town cemetery have been returned to their own countries. On 16th April 1945, Allied fighter planes attacked a train passing through Weiden; the explosions caused extensive damage to some houses and three of the barracks, and several prisoners were killed. According to one of the Belgian prisoners, the Allies knew the camp was there; one of the pilots flew past and waggled his wings at them, as a friendly gesture to the prisoners. Stalag XIII B was liberated by the American forces on April 22, 1945. Source: uncommon-travel-germany.com (2025) Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

11th August 1941 Hermann Braun 11th August 1941 Hermann Braun 1/1 A Ross-Verlag postcard featuring film actor Hermann Braun. Ref:11.08.1941 Anti-Nazi. Drafted into the Wehrmacht. Saw action on the Russian front. Killed near Lodz, early 1945 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

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6th October 1944 B&M Labour Law 6th October 1944 B&M Labour Law Untitled.jpeg Untitled.jpeg 1/1 Official postcard sent from the labour office in Iglau requesting information be sent regarding the recipients work status (perforated reply portion has been returned). Ref: 06.10.1944 Translation from the German text On the basis of section 1 of the Reg. decree of 4 May 1942 on measures to direct the workforce (Coll. 154/42), you are requested to answer the questions on the attached postcard accurately and have them confirmed by your employer in order to complete the card index. The reply card must then be detached and returned to the Labour Office within 3 days of receipt. Incomplete or incorrect information or certificates as well as late return of the card will be penalised with fines or imprisonment. If you are unemployed, this must be noted and the reply card returned nonetheless. Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page