Feldpostämter Feldpost Offices 1939+ Feldpostämter Feldpost Offices 1939+ Feldpostamter Registered feldpost cover featuring feldpostämter 467 to the cancel and the R-label. Ref; 17.11.1940 Feldpost offices 100 - 999 (with lower numbers from September 1939) Kenn Number Distinguising Letter(s) + Lo (Low position) or Le (Level position), location Reference within the Brief History collection LOW POSITION (Lo) LEVEL POSITION (Le) 44 Ref: 08.09.1939 45 Ref: 01.10.1939 (Michel states first month of the war only), 10.09.1939 124 a,b & c (Lo), 1940-41 Western Front, 1941-43 Eastern Front (Midddle/South). Ref: 02.04.1942 - 9/53 145 Ref: 29.03.1943 169 a & c (Lo), h (Le), 1945 Scandanvia. Ref: 09.10.1940 176 Ref: 27.09.1942 247 Ref: 22.09.1939 249 Ref: 21.08.1943 277 b & g (Lo), a,c,d & f (Le), 1942-43 Eastern Front (South), 1944-45 Western Front. Ref: 15.07.1940 - 23/100 & 12.04.1942 287 Ref: 17.05.1943 301 Ref: 13.08.1942 303 Ref: 28.04.1940 315 Ref: 03.05.1944 319 a (Le), location not listed. Rarely seen. Used between Feb - April 1944. Ref: 20.02.1944 331 Ref: 06.09.1939 335 Ref:12.10.1943 364 Ref: 06.09.1939 448 Ref: 25.061942 451 a,b & c (Le), 1940-42 Western Front. Ref: 17.03.1943 460 Ref: 28.07.1943 467 Ref: 05.09.1039, 17.11.1940 540 Ref: 12.09.1939 620 Ref: 25.08.1942 630 Ref: 23.01.1944 641 Ref: 10.04.1943 647 15.06.1942 669 a,b,c & d (Lo), 1942-43 Eastern Front (North). Ref: 17.03.1943, 20.06.1943 713 Ref:20.09.1944 725 a & c (Lo), 1940 Western Front, 1941-44 Eastern Front (North). Ref: 16.05.1944 740 Ref: 16.06.1943 760 Ref: 28.05.1943 828 Ref: 05.09.1939 - 33/30 836 a (Le), 1944 Western Front. Ref: 30.10.1941 - 8/58 848 Ref: 01.07.1942 865 a (Lo), c, Ma (Le), 1943-44 Western Front. Ref: 14.09.1942 875 Ref: 09.12.1943 922 Ref: 24.08.1943 936 a & c (Le), 1942 Eastern Front (North). Ref: 04.09.1943 947 Without designation letter. 1941-44 Balkans. Ref: 29.06.1944 - 1/99 950 Ref: 05.08.1942 992 Ref: 03.09.1939 994 Ref: 18.03.1943, 15.04.1940 - 23/72 (too early?) Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Joint Occupation Zones Postage Stamps 1945-1947 Joint Occupation Zones Postage Stamps 1945-1947 Joint Zone Postage Stamps Commercial cover from Joint Occupation Zone Issues (American, British and Soviet Zones) Mi.911-937 (Feb./May 1946) Definitive: First Control Commission ( including stamp booklet MiNr. 50: H-Sheets 123 & 124 - 12 Pf, 16 Pf & 24 Pf) Mi.924A/B-925A/B, 929A/B, Block 12A/B (08.12.1946) Small sheet issue: Philatelic Exhibition, Berlin. (Mi.938-940 not assigned) Mi.941-942 (05.03.1947/1948) Leipzig Spring Fair Mi.943-962 (01.03.1947/ 01.02.1948) Definitive stamps: Second Control Commission Mi.963-964 (15.05.1947) 50th Anniversary of the death of Heinrich von Stephan Mi.965-966 (02.09.1947) Leipzig Autumn Fair Mi.967-968 (02.03.1948) Leipzig Spring Fair Mi.969-970 (22.05.1948) Export Fair Hannover Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

13th November 1945 13th November 1945 Nurnberg Obliteration For further information on German Postage Meter Stamps follow this link

Bohemia and Moravia Postage stamp issues 1939-1945 Bohemia and Moravia Postage stamp issues 1939-1945 Bohemia and Moravia stamp issues 1939-1945 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 See 28/52 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

German Occupation Issue Private issue stamps 1939-1945 German Occupation Issue Private issue stamps 1939-1945 german occupation Issue Private issue Stamps 1939-1945 German Occupation Private Issues 1939-1945 BELGIUM/FLEMISH LEGION Mi.I-IV Symbolic representations (23.12.1941) Mi.V-VIII Symbolic representations + airplane (1943) Mi.IX-XIV Portraits of Emperors (09.08.1943) Mi.XV-XIX SS - Soldiers and airplanes (n.d.) Not released - available in perf/imperf, singles & sheets Mi.XX SS - Soldiers and airplanes with 'LANGEMARK' o/p (n.d.) Not released - available in perf/imperf, singles & sheets Mi.XXI-XXIV 'Ghent Edition' - Exhibition handouts (1942) Belgium/ Walloon Legion Mi.I-IV Legionnaires (10.04.1942) BRAČ (BRAC ISLAND) Mi.1-6 Overprinted Yugoslavian stamps (1944) DENMARK/DANISH LEGION Mi.I-III 'FELTPOST' (1944) FRANCE Mi.I Block edition: Volunteer Legion (24.101.1941) Mi.II-III Airmail vignettes (11.1941) Mi.IV-V Airmail vignettes (1942) Mi.VI-X Assorted depictions of war with Legion's symbol (20.04.1942) St.Nazaire Mi.3 Fee label for registered letters (02.1945) NATIONAL INDIA Mi.I-VII 'AZAD HIND' (1943) Mi.VIII-X 'AZAD HIND' - Andaman Islands and Niobrara (1943) Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Feldpost R & V-Label variations Feldpost R & V-Label variations Feldpost R-Label variations Example of registered feldpost mail with Feldpost Office identification number (335) being incorporated by way of the feldpost cancel. Ref: 25.02.1943, MFP24/139 Registered mail labels as used within the German feldpost system (and beyond). Basic R-Label with hand-stamped identification number (865). Ref: 14.09.1942, MFP1/133 'Feldpost' imprint with hand-stamped Kenn-Nr. Ref:29.06.1944 - 1/99 Feldpost office Identification number (335) by way of feldpost cancellation. Ref:25.02.1943, MFP24/139 'Deutsche Feldpost' printed text with hand-stamp feldpost office number (740). Ref: 16.06.1943, MFP51/140 Use of feldpost R-label in the Reichspost Lesser seen use of Feldpost R-label in the Reichspost with 'Feldpost' being over-stamped with 'Neuglobsow'. Ref: 06.09.1944, MFP182/146 R-label - Saalhausen - see 34/85 Post-War usage of feldpost R-label Post-war use of R-Label in Buchholz (hand stamped '10 Buchholz'). Ref: 28.01.1946 - 10/71 Post-war use of R-Label in Chemnitz (hand stamped 'Chnz 25'). Ref: 19.02.1946 - 10/42 Post-war use of R-Label in Frankfurt a.M. (hand stamp 'Frankfurt (Main) 2'). Ref: 20.04.1946 - 10/15 Post-war use of R-Label in Hamburg (manuscript 'Ham 46'). Ref: 12.04.1946 - ? Post-war use of R-Label in Hamm (hand stamp 'Hamm (Sieg)'). See 08.01.1947 - 15/95 Post-war use of R-Label in Mayen (hand stamp 'Mayen'). Ref: 12.04.1946 - 15/14 Post-war use of R-Label in Oldenburg (Holst) (hand-stamp 'Oldenburg') on Kriegsmarine envelope. See 27/75 Post-war use of R-Label in Schlüchtern (hand-stamp 'Schlüchtern'). Ref: 01.03.1946 - 16/3 Post-war use of naval R-Label in Wesermünde (hand stamp 'Wesermünde-Wulsdorf'). From Oct.1942 the navy used roman numerals on registered mail to disguise its postal origin. Ref: 18.05.1946 - 15/32 Valeur mail labels as used within the German feldpost system (and beyond) Post-war use of V-Label in Frankenberg (manuscript 'Frankenberg Sachs'). Ref: 05.04.1948 - 10/53 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Mi.8-19 (28.08.1945-1946) Soviet Zone Definitives Mi.8-19 (28.08.1945-1946) Soviet Zone Definitives Mi.8-19 Soviet Zone Definitives Commercial cover sent from 'Otto Rechenberger & Co.' to an address in Schwenningen. Featuring Mi.17 (?) from the Soviet Zone Mecklenburg-Vorpommern definitive issue. Ref: 14.01.1946 - 15/89 Mi.8-19 Soviet Zone - Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Definitives Notes on Mi.16-19 : the 12 Pf definitive stamp was produced over four print runs from 18th August 1945 to 30th January 1946 using a variety of ink shades and paper colours. Further research required. Mi.17 (12 Pf). Ref: 14.01.1946 - 15/89 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

9th May 1945 Pages from 'PUNCH' 9th May 1945 Pages from PUNCH Food into Holland Cartoon from PUNCH magazine 9th May 1945. Allied aircraft deliver much need food supplies to the starving people of Holland. The caption reads THE EAGLES BRING FOOD Food relief for the Dutch From Wikipedia: By the middle of March Swedish Red Cross flour, known as the 'Swedish bread', (which had originally arrived in January from Sweden, but the shipment had been stuck unloaded in the northern harbour of Delfzijl ) began to reach a network of Dutch bakeries in cities, towns and villages, who used it to bake bread and ration it to the local population. For many, that was the first proper bread (without diluted ingredients) they consumed in months. The following month, more humanitarian interventions took place, this time by airdrops. From 29th April to 7th May Operation Manna was conducted by the Royal Air Force and Royal Canadian Air Force . From 1st to 8th May, the U.S. Army Air Forces conducted Operation Chowhound . The Germans agreed not to shoot at the planes flying the mercy missions, and the Allies agreed not to bomb German positions. A third humanitarian assistance was domestically organized via a land-based, civilian supply chain from the east of the country. Called Operation Faust , food was trucked beginning on 2nd May, first to the centrally located Rhenen before further distribution westwards. Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

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VDA Association for Germans Abroad VDA Association for Germans Abroad VDA Volksbund für das Deutschtum im Ausland VDA Volksbund für das Deutschtum im Ausland (Association for Germans Abroad) Artists' Postcards Hertell, Hanna Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Propaganda Anti-British Propaganda Anti-British Propaganda Anti-British German propaganda postcard aimed at the defeat of Great Britain with its slogan, 'und jetzt: Schluß mit England!' (and now: Finish with England). Ref: 05.09.1944 Anti-British Propaganda 1939 1940 'Wie fahren gegen Engeland!' (We're playing with England) Ref: 30. 07 .1940 - 30/30 ' und jetzt: Schluß mit England!' (and now: Finish with England!). Ref: 05. 09 .1944 (postcard c.1940) 'Prost Neujahr! 1941' (Pen & ink: Churchill under attack) Ref: 26. 12 .1940 - 17/13 1941 'Englischer Aufklärer stürzt brennend ab' (English reconnaissance aircraft crashes and burns). Ref: 03. 12 .1941 - 22/45 1942 See 19.06.1942 - 23/14 1943 1944 1945 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Spanish Civil War Leaders & Personalities Spanish Civil War Leaders & Personalities SCW Leaders and Personalities Postcard depicting Francisco Franco in a three-quarter length pose. The card was sent during the Spanish Civil War from Zaragoza to an address in Bologna, Italy. Ref: 14.10.1937 Spanish Civil War LEADERS & PERSONALITIES Francisco Franco (1892-1975). Link to further information. José Antonio Primo de Rivera (1903-1936). The caption reads, 'Our stand is in the open air under the clear night, gun at arm's length and the stars overhead...' Ref: 16/52 José Antonio Primo de Rivera (1903 - 1936), 1st Duke of Primo de Rivera, 3rd Marquess of Estella, often referred to simply as José Antonio, was a Spanish fascist politician who founded the Falange Española ('Spanish Phalanx'), later Falange Española de las JONS. On 14th March 1936, he was arrested in Madrid and charged with illegal possession of firearms (at that time, Spain was awash in privately held weapons on the part of all political factions). Nine weeks later he was transferred to the prison in Alicante. In both Madrid and in Alicante, he was able to maintain intermittent secret contact with the Falange leadership and, several times, with General Emilio Mola. On 3rd October he was charged with conspiracy against the Republic and military insurrection, both capital offences, even though he had been imprisoned long before the insurrection of 18th July. Primo de Rivera conducted his own defence. On 18th November he was found guilty by a people's tribunal and sentenced to death by firing squad. The three career judges who participated in the trial, along with the popular tribunal, asked for the death sentence be commuted to life imprisonment but this was rejected by the majority of government ministers (the two ministers from Izquierda Republicana voted against the death sentence). The sentence was carried out on 20th November by local authorities in Alicante. It is said by some that the Republic offered the Nationalists a prisoner exchange involving Primo de Rivera and a son of the Republic's head of government Francisco Largo Caballero and that Franco turned down the offer. Others contend that it was the Republican government who rejected the deal of the Nationalists and that General Franco approved several failed commando raids on the Alicante prison to try to rescue José Antonio. Either way the death of the founder of Falange rid the general of a formidable rival. Perhaps tellingly, it was well known that the two men disliked each other. After one of the two meetings they had, Franco dismissed José Antonio as 'a playboy pinturero' (a foppish playboy). Elizabeth Bibesco's last novel, The Romantic , published in 1940, starts with a dedication to José Antonio Primo de Rivera, whom she had known during her stay in Madrid where her husband, Prince Antoine Bibesco, was a diplomat from Romania in Spain between 1927 and 1931: 'To José Antonio Primo de Rivera. I promised you a book before it was begun. It is yours now that it is finished – Those we love die for us only when we die–'. Source: Wikipedia Enrique Marzo Balaguer (1875-1947). Ref: 16/51 Enrique Marzo Balaguer (1875 - 1947) was a Spanish soldier and politician, Minister of the Interior during the Dictablanda of General Dámaso Berenguer. Balaguer was promoted to Brigadier General in 1918 and Lieutenant General in 1926. He held the position of Captain General of the Balearic Islands when he was appointed Minister of the Interior on 30th January 1930. He held the position in the cabinet of General Dámaso Berenguer until the 25th November of the same year, when he was replaced by Leopoldo Matos y Massieu. He died on 18th April 1947. Source: Wikipedia Further research required as to Balaguer's involvement in the Spanish Civil War Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page