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Plain postcard featuring postage stamp Mi.660 (5th Anniversary of the Seizure of Power) tied with commemorative cancellation JB:Linz2/501 (I) issued to celebrate the 49th birthday of Adolf Hitler. Ref: 20.04.1938 20th April 1938 JB: Linz (Donau) 1/1 Plain postcard featuring postage stamp Mi.660 (5th Anniversary of the Seizure of Power) tied with commemorative cancellation JB:Linz2/501 (I) issued to celebrate the 49th birthday of Adolf Hitler. Ref: 20.04.1938 LINZ cancellations as featured in the Bochmann catalogues (1952) JB:Linz2/501 (I) - 'Geburtstag des Fuhrers/ 20.April/ 1938'. Ref: 20.04.1938 Note on JB:Linz2/501 - There are two varieties: one with 'LINZ' 2mm tall (I) and another with 'LINZ' 2.5mm tall (II). Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

30th May 1937 JB:Heidenau 30th May 1937 JB:Heidenau 30.05.1937 Heidenau S138 MHB 41 reverse.jpeg 30.05.1937 Heidenau S138 MHB 41 reverse.jpeg 1/1 Cover sent from Heidenau featuring special cancellation JB:Heidenau1/377. With postage sequence S138 from booklet sheet MHB 41. Ref: 30.05.1937 - 15/52 HEIDENAU cancellations as featured in the Bochmann catalogues (1952) JB:Heidenau1/377 - 'Parkfest/ Großsedlitz/ Schönster Barockgarten Sachsens' Ref: 30.05.1937 JB:Heidenau2/377 - 'Schönster Barockgarten Sachsens' Ref: 30.05.1937 - 15/59 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

22nd March 1943 22nd March 1943 22.03.1943 Gepruft Feldpostprufstelle cover.jpeg 22.03.1943 Gepruft Feldpostprufstelle cover.jpeg 1/1 Feldpost cover sent from FPN 30080 (2. Kompanie Infanterie-Divisions-Nachrichten-Abteilung 188) to FPN 49677 (Nacht-Jagdraumfuhrer 7). Featuring 'Feldpostprüfstelle' closure tape (ref: MFP1/123) and a 'Geprüft Feldpostprüfstelle' hand-stamp (ref: MFP3/123). Ref: 22.03.1943 Link to Feldpostprüfstelle Closures Contact Brief History to inform us of additonal information regarding this page

Mi.64 (01.06.1941) B&M definitive Mi.64 (01.06.1941) B&M definitive 1/1 Commercial postcard sent from stamp dealer Paul Kuhrt to a correspondent in Passau. Featuring B&M definitive Mi.64 (Linden twig with fruit). Ref: 09.03.1941 Paul Kuhrt: Link to further information Mi.64 B&M definitive (Linden twig with fruit) Notes: Design: A. Schaumann . Recess printing. Sheets 10 x 10. Without watermark. Perf. 14. Quantity issued: unknown. Valid until 31.03.1943 Note from Michel, Germany Specialised , Vol.2 : 'All the stamps in the 'linden leaf and fruit' design (photogravure) were printed from plates assembled from vertical strips of ten. Thus the individual vertical rows all have the same small differences. Because adequate sheet material is available that creates the possibility for an interesting specialisation.' A. Schaumann Further research required Mi.64 (30 H - Linden twig with fruit). Ref: 03.09.1941 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Bohemia and Moravia Postage stamp issues 1939-1945 Bohemia and Moravia Postage stamp issues 1939-1945 21.11.1939 Czech various reverse.jpeg 21.11.1939 Czech various reverse.jpeg 1/1 Cover sent from Muglinau to an address in Luhačovice. Featuring various Czech/ Bohemia and Moravia stamps: 5 H ('mitläufer' - Mi.277 - first issued 1929 - valid until 15.12.1939); 5 H, Mi.1 (Mi.277 overprint), and 25 H, Mi.4 (Mi.280 overprint); new definitives 5 H, 10 H, and 20 H (Mi.20-22). Ref: 21.11.1939 - 15/65 In the early hours of the morning of 15th March 1939, the German Army marched in and occupied the Czech lands of Bohemia & Moravia, the important industrial and mining region around the town of Ostrova had been occupied during the preceding night. One of the immediate declarations was the establishment of the Reichsmark as legal tender with a fixed rate of exchange of 1 RM = 10 Czech. Crowns. Further to this came the extension of the validity of the then current Czechoslovakian stamps and postal stationery to 15th December 1939 with the current issue of Czech stamps being over-printed 'Bohmen-Mahren/ Cechy-Morava' on 15th July 1939. German feldpost mail (postmark Form 1, 28mm: single circle , ''FELDPOST'/ identification letter/ date/ Reichsadler) were cancelled without any feldpost number (FPN). However, registered mail was postmarked with Field Post Office number 531 (not catalogued in Michel Deutsche Feldpost) with the feldpost R-Label bearing the Field Post Office number (either had-written or stamped). Feldpost Form 26, 29mm double circle was also used in Brno (Brunn). Feldpost in the Czech-Moravian territory was terminated in May 1939, but was re-opened at the end of 1944. [For further information on german feldpost in Czechoslovakia see Michel Deutsche Feldpost pp.41-42] The occupation authorities were well aware of the animosity of the local population and therefore did not trust their official mail to the Czecho-Moravian postal services. Thus following the termination of the field post service, a special 'Deutsche Dienstpost Bohmen-Mahren' was introduced to cater for letters sent by the Occupation Authorities, and for German civilian and military agencies and their personnel. It was later extended to cover essentail war industries, which however, had to obtain a special permit. This service did not carry any parcels or money orders, onlt letters and registered and special delivery mail. This service was restricted to the transfer of mails from one office to another, they did not deliver to the addressees, official organisations and offices had to collect it from the 'Dienstpost' office. Letters to private individuals were sent to the nearest Dienstpost office, and from there either via the Protectorate Post Office for delivery, or an advice wa sent advising the addressee to call and collect in person. Dienstpost offices were sited in all the more important towns and cities, and in the capital Prague, there were three: Prague 1 at the Czernin Palace, Prague 2 in Bredovska Street, and Prague PLST (Postleitstelle) which was used as a sorting and routing centre. German official mail was canceled using a double circle postmark containing the words 'DEUTSCHE DIENSTPOST BOHMEN-MAREN' together with the town name. German military mail began to use new double circle cancel types bearing the words 'DEUTSCHE REICHSPOST' together with the post office identification letter (no place name). Source: Germania Vol.6 No.2 pp.114-120 Further information regarding the identification numbers and letters used on 'Deutsche Dienstpost' and 'Deutsche Reichspost' cancellations can be found in this volume. Bohemia and Moravia Postage stamp issues 1939 - 1945 Vorläufer - Czech stamps cancelled between 15.03 - 12.04.1939 Mitläufer - Czech stamps cancelled between 13.04 - 15.12.1939 1939 Mi.1-40 16th March 1939 - Local issue overprints from Mährisch-Ostrau Mi.A1 13th April - Definitive Mi.B1 22nd April - Airmail Mi.1-19 15th July - Definitive s (overprinted) Mi.20-37 29th July/1942 - Definitives Mi.42-50 25th August - Newspaper stamp Mi.51 1st December - Definitive (mass mailing) Mi.52 1st December - Service stamp (direct delivery) Mi.1-14 1st December/10th June 1940 - Postage Due Mi.15 1st December - Postage Due (direct delivery) 1940 Mi.38-41 31st March/29th June - Definitives Mi.53-54 29th June - Red Cross Mi.55-61 20th November/Oct 1941 - Definitives 1941 Mi.1-12 1st January - Service stamp Mi.62-63 20th April - Red Cross Mi.64 1st June - Definitive Mi.65-72 28th July/ Jan 1942 - Definitives Mi.73-74 25th August - 100th Birthday of Antonin Dvorák Mi.75-78 7th September - Prague trade fair Mi.79-82 26th October - 150th anniversary of the death of Mozart 1942 Mi.83-84 15th March - 3rd anniversary of the Protectorate Mi.85-88 20th April - Adolf Hitler's 53rd birthday Mi.89-110 1st & 22nd July - Definitives: Adolf Hitler Mi.111-112 1st September - Red Cross 1943 Mi.113 10th January - Stamp Day Mi.13-24 15th February - Service stamp Mi.114-116 29th January - Winter Relief Mi.117-125 15th February - Newspaper stamps Mi.126-127 20th April - Adolf Hitler's 54th birthday Mi.128-130 22nd May - 130th anniversary of the birth of Wagner Mi.131 28th May - 1st anniversary of the death of Heydrich Mi.132 16th September - Red Cross Admission Stamps Mi.1 10th July - Theresienstadt Ghetto 1944 Mi.133-135 15th March - 5th anniversary of the Protectorate Mi.136-137 20th April - Adolf Hitler's 55th birthday Mi.138-139 12th May - 60th anniversary of the death of Smetana Mi.140-141 21st November - 600th Anniversary of St. Veits Cathedral, Prague 1945 Mi.142 1st February - Definitive Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

12th January 1941 Mi.P241 12th January 1941 Mi.P241 1/1 Mi.P241. Semi-official postal stationery issued for Day of the Postage Stamp, 1941, with imprint 6 Pf Hindenburg medallion. Ordered by the K.d.F. Philatelists Association. the surcharge on card was for K.d.F. funds. Special cancellations produced were used in 52 cities. Stamp Day Postal Stationery Wiener Klapperpost Clapper Post, or Klapperpost in German, was an urban postal service in Vienna, the capital of Austria, and in some of the country's other cities, that began in 1772. Its name refers to a clapper (a type of rattle) with which mail carriers announced their arrival. In Vienna, it existed for more than ten years. Source: Wikipedia Official postal stationery (Mi.P241) without 6 Pf Hindenburg medallion imprint but with inscription 'Sondermarke zum Tag der Briefmarke 1941' (Special stamp for Stamp Day 1941) and Mi.762. Note: Without vertical sales text. Ref: 12.01.1941 Unused with commemorative cancel, postal stationery (Mi.P3) with imprint 6 Pf Hindenburg medallion overprinted with 'Lothringen'. Ref: 12.01.1941 Official postal stationery (Mi.P241) with 'Tag der Briefmarke 1943' overprinted beneath the image. Without vertical sales text. Ref: 10.01.1943 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Sudetenland 1938 Postal history Sudetenland 1938 Postal history 22.09.1938 JB_Rumburg reverse.jpeg 22.09.1938 JB_Rumburg reverse.jpeg 1/1 Cover featuring a Rumburg 'Tag der Befreiung' (Liberation Day) cancel tied to a block of four Czechoslovakian stamps (Mi.401). Ref: 22.09.1938 - 4/23 Sudetenland Postal History 22nd September 1938 'Tag der Befriung' cancellation (and Sudetenland timeline) 'Wir sind frei' cancellations 03.10.1938 (Eger/ Hitler's speech) 09.10.1938 (Aussig) 13.10.1938 (Eger/ Bochmann cancellations) Provisional hand-stamp cancellations 29.10.1938 (Postanstalt Altrohlau) Propaganda slogans 03.10.1938 (Asch/ Bochmann cancellations), 'Wir haben das joch...' 06.10.1938, 'Der Führer in Haida 6.Okt.1938' 11.10.1938, 'Dank dem führer...' (Graslitz) Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

1st July 1933 Hameln 1/0 Hameln See 01.07.1933 - 24/3 (Note: JB:136/815) Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Mi.862 (24.10.1943) Mi.862 (24.10.1943) 1/1 Mi.862 (Ref: 24.10.1943) next stamp issue

16th March 1939 Mährisch-Ostrau overprints 16th March 1939 Mährisch-Ostrau overprints Screenshot 2021-11-27 at 09.29.50.png Screenshot 2021-11-27 at 09.29.50.png 1/1 Local issues from Mährisch-Ostrau, Bohemia and Moravia (Mi.1 - Mi.40) Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Self-addressed cover sent from Berlin to Hannover. Featuring the lesser seen S40 combination of Mi.454 + X (Hindenburg medallion). Taken from sheet MHB15 (1932). Also featuring the commemorative cancellation for the 12th German Radio Exhibition. Ref: 22.08.1935 22nd August 1935 12th German Radio Exhibition 22.08.1935 S40 reverse.jpeg 22.08.1935 S40 reverse.jpeg 1/1 Self-addressed cover sent from Berlin to Hannover. Featuring the lesser seen S40 combination of Mi.454 + X (Hindenburg medallion). Taken from sheet MHB15 (1932). Also featuring the commemorative cancellation for the 12th German Radio Exhibition. Ref: 22.08.1935 British Pathé news reel about the radio exhibition and subsequent fire. Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

5th June 1940 Focke-Wulf Fw 200 'Condor' 05.06.1940 Condor reverse.jpeg 05.06.1940 Condor reverse.jpeg 1/1 Postcard depicting a Focke-Wulf Fw 200 'Condor'. Note that the swastika on the tail has been partially obliterated. Featuring to the reverse a lesser seen Luftwaffe emblem in a triangular vignette. Ref: 05.06.1940 Link to Luftwaffe Eagle vignettes Focke-Wulf Fw 200 'Condor' The Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor , also known as Kurier (German for courier ) to the Allies, is a German all-metal four-engined monoplane originally developed by Focke-Wulf as a long-range airliner. A Japanese request for a long-range maritime patrol aircraft led to military versions that saw service with the Luftwaffe as long-range reconnaissance and anti-shipping/maritime patrol bomber aircraft. The Luftwaffe also made extensive use of the Fw 200 as a transport aircraft. It achieved success as a commerce raider until mid-1941, by which time it was being harried by long-range RAF Coastal Command aircraft and the Hurricane fighters being flown from CAM ships. The Fw 200 was operated by Deutsche Luft Hansa, DDL and Luft Hansa's Brazilian subsidiary Syndicato Condor. Dai Nippon KK of Japan also ordered Fw 200 airliners. These could not be delivered to Japan once the war began, so they were delivered to Deutsche Luft Hansa instead. On 14th April 1945 an Fw 200 flew Luft Hansa's last scheduled service before the end of World War II, from Barcelona to Berlin. Other airlines continued to operate the Fw 200 after the end of World War II. The first prototype, the Fw 200 V1, upgraded with extra fuel tanks and re-designated Fw 200 S-1, made several record flights. It was the first heavier-than-air craft to fly nonstop between Berlin and New York City, about 4,000 miles (6,400 km), making the flight from Berlin-Staaken to Floyd Bennett Field on 10th-11th August 1938 in 24 hours and 56 minutes. The return trip on 13th August 1938 took 19 hours and 47 minutes. These flights are commemorated with a plaque in Böttcherstraße, a street in Bremen. Beginning on 28th November 1938 it flew from Berlin to Tokyo via Basra, Karachi and Hanoi. The German Foreign Minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop, used a specially outfitted Condor 'Grenzmark', on his two flights to Moscow in 1939, during which he negotiated and signed the 'Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Soviet Union', better known as the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. His aircraft bore the German civil registration of D-ACVH. A Danish-owned Fw 200 aircraft named Dania was seized by the British at Shoreham Airport after Denmark was invaded by German forces in 1940. It was subsequently operated by the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) and was then pressed into service with the Royal Air Force. It was damaged beyond repair in 1941. The Luftwaffe initially used the aircraft to support the Kriegsmarine , making great loops out across the North Sea and, following the fall of France, the Atlantic Ocean. The aircraft was used for maritime patrols and reconnaissance, searching for Allied convoys and warships that could be reported for targeting by U-boats. The Fw 200 could also carry a 1,000-kilogram (2,200 lb) bomb load or naval mines to use against shipping, and it was claimed that from June 1940 to February 1941, they sank 331,122 tonnes (365,000 tons) of shipping despite a rather crude bombsight. The attacks were carried out at extremely low altitude in order to 'bracket' the target ship with three bombs; this almost guaranteed a hit. Winston Churchill called the Fw 200 the 'Scourge of the Atlantic' during the Battle of the Atlantic due to its contribution to the heavy Allied shipping losses. Following the debut of what would become the Luftwaffe's primary seaborne maritime patrol aircraft, the rival trimotored BV 138C flying boat in March 1941; from mid-1941, Condor crews were instructed to stop attacking shipping and avoid all combat in order to preserve numbers. In August, the first Fw 200 was shot down by a CAM ship-launched Hawker Hurricane, and the arrival of the U.S.-built Grumman Martlet, operating from the Royal Navy's new escort carriers, posed a serious threat. The six Martlets operated by the Royal Navy from the first escort carrier HMS Audacity shot down a total of seven Condors while escorting three convoys during her short career in the final months of 1941. On 14th August 1942, an Fw 200C-3 was the first German aircraft to be destroyed by USAAF pilots, after it was attacked by a Curtiss P-40C Warhawk and a Lockheed P-38F Lightning over Iceland. The Fw 200 was also used as a transport aircraft, notably flying supplies into Stalingrad in 1942. After late-1943, the Fw 200 came to be used solely for transport. For reconnaissance, it was replaced by the Junkers Ju 290, and even some examples of the Heinkel He 177 Greif bombers serving with Kampfgeschwader 40. With the Allied advance into France, maritime reconnaissance by the Luftwaffe became impossible as the Atlantic coast bases were captured. Production ended in 1944 with a total of 276 aircraft produced. Several damaged Fw 200s landed in Spain during the war. In the beginning, they were repaired and returned to their bases in France. After Operation Torch (the Allied invasion of French North Africa), the Spanish government interned four aircraft that arrived on Spanish territory (although their crews were still allowed to return to Germany). Since the aircraft could not be used, they were sold by Germany to Spain. One of the three flyable aircraft was then operated by the Spanish Air Force and the others used for spares. Because of damage and lack of spares, and for political reasons, they were grounded and scrapped around 1950. Some Condors also crashed in Portugal. Their crews were allowed to return to Germany while the British authorities were allowed to inspect the aircraft and accompanying documentation. Some crew members died in these crashes and were buried in the civilian cemetery of Moura in Alentejo Province, Portugal. The aircraft that crashed in Spain and Portugal had been based in Bordeaux-Merignac, France since 1940. Before then, the operational base of the Fw 200 squadrons had been in Denmark. At the suggestion of his personal pilot Hans Baur, Adolf Hitler specified a modified and unarmed prototype Condor, the Fw 200 V3, as his personal transport, as a replacement for his Junkers Ju 52. Originally configured as a 26-passenger Luft Hansa transport (Works No. 3099), it was reconfigured as a plush two-cabin airliner. Hitler's armchair-style seat in the cabin was equipped with a wooden table, seat-back armour plating, and a parachute in the seat cushion, with an escape hatch in the floor. In line with Hitler's aircraft preferences, it carried the markings "D-2600" and was named 'Immelmann II' in honour of World War I flying ace Max Immelmann. As the war progressed it changed designation to 'WL+2600' and finally '26+00'; it was destroyed at Berlin Tempelhof Airport in an Allied bombing raid on 18 July 1944. FW 200s of various types were configured as VIP transports, for the use of Hitler and his staff, and also other aircraft assigned to Heinrich Himmler, Albert Speer, Hermann Göring, and Karl Dönitz. Royal Naval Fleet Air Arm pilot Captain Eric Brown's plane was attacked and seriously damaged by a Condor in 1940, and he narrowly survived. After this, he studied the design of the Condor seriously for some time. He managed to work out that the forward firing machine gun positions could swivel, but could only fire in a certain arc otherwise they would hit the fuselage of their own plane. Brown worked out where the arc was, and realised this was a blind spot, if one attacked the front of the plane. He used this to successfully destroy a Condor, then informed his fellow squadron pilots who used the tactic to destroy others. Source: Wikipedia Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page