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Mi.83-88 (07.04.1942/1944) 1/0 Mi.86 A or B? (Ref: 25.02.1944)

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16th March 1946 16th March 1946 16.03.1946 Stuttgart obliteration reverse.jpeg 16.03.1946 Stuttgart obliteration reverse.jpeg 1/1 Obliterated Hitler Head postcard (Mi.P300 - RPD Stuttgart). Sent from the stamp dealer Ernst Reinhardt in Friolzheim to a client in Stuttgart. Featuring postage stamps Mi.1 (3 Rpf American printing), and Mi.916 (6 Rpf - 1st Control Commission Issue). Ref: 16.03.1946 - 13/110 The message reads, in part, 'I have received your mailing of 11.3. today, as well as the transfer from Leonberg, thank you very much! I can give you something from your missing list, unfortunately not much, because I would have to break up the sets... Would you take (possibly in exchange) unused D. Reich, Michel 730/733 each 8 pieces, 734 10 pieces, 735/736 each 8 pieces? 737/38 unfortunately nothing.... As you informed me that you have the second part of the Michel 1944/45, would you not leave it with me... so that I can make additions to the Michel 1943...' Notes: Mi.730 to Mi.738 refer to the Winter Relief Buildings set of nine values, issued on the 27th October and 9th November 1939. In the Michel Monats Berichte No1. September 1941the Hitler Head issues are catalogues 781-798. This is the same in their German Specialised of 2016. However, due to the inclusion of high value Hitler Head definitives (of 1944), the catalogue numbering is thrown out of sequence. So, the 9th September 1941 issue for horseracing, 'The Grand Prize of the Reich Capital City', catalogued in 1941 as Mi.799, is now catalogued as Mi.803. Contact Brief History to inform us of additonal information regarding this page

25th July 1945 Pages from 'PUNCH' 25th July 1945 Pages from 'PUNCH' Punch icon.png Punch icon.png 1/1 Cartoon from PUNCH magazine 25th July 1945. Hermann Göring sits with Joachim von Ribbentrop as they contemplate their future. The caption reads AT THE CRIME CLUB "I wonder if they'll give us time to write our memoirs?" Göring from Wikipedia: Göring made an appeal asking to be shot as a soldier instead of hanged as a common criminal, but the court refused. He committed suicide with a potassium cyanide capsule the night before he was to be hanged. Speculation as to how Göring obtained the poison holds that US Army lieutenant Jack G. Wheelis, who was stationed at the trials, retrieved the capsules from their hiding place among Göring's confiscated personal effects and passed them to Göring, who had earlier presented Wheelis with his gold watch, pen, and cigarette case. In 2005, former US Army private Herbert Lee Stivers, who served in the 1st Infantry Division's 26th Infantry Regiment—the honour guard for the Nuremberg Trials—claimed he gave Göring 'medicine' hidden inside a fountain pen that a German woman had asked him to smuggle into the prison. Stivers later said that he did not know what was in the pill until after Göring's suicide. Ribbentrop From Wikipedia: On 16th October 1946, Ribbentrop became the first of those sentenced to death at Nuremberg to be hanged, after Göring committed suicide just before his scheduled execution. The hangman was U.S. Master Sergeant John C. Woods. Ribbentrop was escorted up the 13 steps of the gallows and asked if he had any final words. He said: "God protect Germany. God have mercy on my soul. My final wish is that Germany should recover her unity and that, for the sake of peace, there should be understanding between East and West. I wish peace to the world." Nuremberg Prison Commandant Burton C. Andrus later recalled that Ribbentrop turned to the prison's Lutheran chaplain, Henry F. Gerecke, immediately before the hood was placed over his head and then he whispered, "I'll see you again." His body, like those of the other nine executed men and of the suicide Hermann Göring, was cremated at Ostfriedhof (Munich) and his ashes were scattered in the river Isar. Note: Between 25th August and 23rd September 1946 Ribbentrop wrote his memoirs, published as 'The Ribbontrop Memoirs' , Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1954. Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

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2nd September 1943 2nd September 1943 1/1 Cover sent from Rome to an Italian POW (via Bombay) in Camp 28, Yol, northern India. Featuring Italian and British censors (and what looks like German red numbered hand stamps and ribbed closed tape). The date on the Italian cancellation is the day before the Italian surrender to the Allies - the Armistice of Cassibile. Ref: 02.09.1943

VIKTORIA! Germany VIKTORIA! Germany 1/1 Feldpost envelope featuring a large hand-stamp cachet with 'V/ VIKTORIA' design. Ref: 24.09.1941 - 17/82 'Viktoria!' Use of slogan during the German victory campaign of 1941 'Deutschland Siegt für Europa/ Viktoria'. Ø 57mm (dark violet). Ref: 24.09.1941 - 17/82 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

15th August 1942 U-Boat Acceptance Commission 15.08.1942 'IBERIA'.jpeg 15.08.1942 'IBERIA'.jpeg 1/1 Feldpost postcard with military illustration by Rudolf G. Werner (PK.) - PK = Propaganda Kompanien. Posted from FPN 31001 (Stab u. 1.-3. Kompanie Landesschutzen-Bataillon 983) to an address in Danzig. The address includes 'U.A.K. (T or I)' and the name 'Iberia'. 'U.A.K.' = Unterseeboots Abnahme Kommando - this being the U-Boat acceptance commission, the department that inspected and took receipt of new submarines from the shipyard. The name 'Iberia' was that of the barracks ship. The addressee appears to be a Oberfähnrich (with some letters missing). This meant he was a senior officer cadet with the assimilated rank of Oberfeldwebel. Ref: 15.08.1942 Organization of the U.A.K. The U.A.K. (Unterseeboots Abnahme Kommando - the U-Boat acceptance commission, the department that inspects and takes receipt of new submarines from the shipyard) is placed under the military E.K.K. (Erprobungskommando für Kreigsshiffbauen - Operational test command for warship construction and new vessel trials). All test run affairs are reported directly to the U.A.K. by Navy High Command orders. The U.A.K. is made up of staff which is based in Kiel, and quartered in a U-boat tender the 'Acheron' and 6 submarine acceptance groups (U.A.G. - Unterseeboots Abwehr Gruppe - U-Boat acceptence section). The U.A.G. 1, 3 and 5 have their base in Danzig, and are housed aboard the 'Messina' and 'Iberia'. U.A.G. 2, 4 and 6 are based in Kiel and are housed aboard the 'Amazone'. Chief of the U.A.K. is a Senior Captain. The staff of the U.A.K. is based together with his staff officers and staff members, the required officers, upper and middle construction officials for the ship and machine construction and the corresponding lower staff. Every U.A.G. is passed by the head, the Military advisor, higher construction office for ship and machine construction and the required lower staff. The U.A.K. is the superior service of the U.A.G.s. All corresponding matters from the U.A.G.s passes through the U.A.K. In Danzig the head of the U.A.G. is the permanent representative of the chiefs of the U.A.K. He is the head of groups 3 and 5 over which all military and important test run issues are reviewed. The U.A.K. has the administrative authority. (Link to documents captured aboard U-505 on 4th June 1944) The 'Iberia' of the Hamburg-America Line used as barracks in Danzig Postcard (unused) depicting the 'Iberia' whist in the service of the Hamburg-Amerika Linie. At this time the liner could accomodate 350 passengers. Ref: 15.08.1942 Contact Brief History to inform us of additonal information regarding this page

8th January 1939 Kölner Karneval 1939 8th January 1939 Kölner Karneval 1939 1/1 See 08.01.1939 - 22/86 and 18.02.1939 - 22/85 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

31st July 1945 31st July 1945 1/1 German POW mail written on 31st July 1945, from Camp 306, Egypt. Sent to Fred Fritsche at an address in South Haven, Michigan, USA. Ref: 31.07.1945

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24th December 1940 Dachshunde e.V. (FSD) 24.12.1940 Dachshunde reverse.jpeg 24.12.1940 Dachshunde reverse.jpeg 1/1 Official cover for the 'Fachschaft für Dachshunde e.V.' sent to the Office of the Public Prosecutor in Düsseldorf. Ref: 24.12.1940 - 14/73 Fachschaft für Dachshunde e.V. In 1906, the Teckel Club joined the umbrella organisation 'Cartel of special clubs for hunting and working dogs that kept studbooks' founded in Frankfurt am Main, which from 1925 became the 'German Cartel for Dogs' (DKH). As the second German representative, alongside the delegate Commission (DC), the cartel in Paris was a founding member of the Fédération Cynologique Internationale (FCI ) in 1911. Due to the political-cultural synchronisation from 1933, the DC and the DKH as well as the 'Association of Associations for the Testing of Working Dogs for Hunting' (JGV, later JGHV), which was split off from the DC in 1899, were dissolved and became the 'Reich Association for the German' with all other dog breeding clubs. The Teckel Club was also dissolved in 1935 and 3 associations kept family registers for Teckels: the DC, the Teckel-Club and the Nutzckel-Club. There were also 3 clubs that kept breeding registers for dachshunds: the rabbit dachshund club, the club for long-haired dachshunds (which, according to the assumption at the time, developed through cross-breeding with quail dogs) and the club for rough-haired dachshunds (which, in particular, through cross-breeding Wire-haired Pinscher (Schnauzer) and Dandie Dinmont Terrier emerged). With the formation of the 'Fachschaft für Dachshunde eV' (FSD), the organisational plurality was ended and the testing and breeding system was centralised. The FSD was subordinate to the RDH, and from 1937 to the 'Reichsbund Deutsche Jägerschaft' (RDJ). However, club life came to a standstill in 1939 due to a ban on gatherings. After the RDH and RDJ were dissolved in 1945, the exhibition, testing and breeding system for Dachshunds was reorganised. Source: www-dtk--nord-de (loose translation) Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page