Search Results

26th March 1939 Bulgaria - 1939 26th March 1939 Bulgaria - 1939 1/1 Ref: 26.03.1939 - 29/22 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

29th May 1936 1/1 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

12th August 1943 Cartolina Postale 12th August 1943 Cartolina Postale 1/1 BIGLIETTO POSTALE PER LE FORZA ARMATE. Italian letter-sheet (Biglietto) sent via 'Posta Militare N. 23. Featuring a quotation from Vittorio Emmanuel. RefL 12.08.1943 'Unito a voi come non mai sono sicuro che il vostro valore del popolo italiano sapranno ancora una volta assicurare la armi gloriose. VITTORIA EMMANUEL' (United with you as never before I am sure that the valour of the Italian people will once again secure the glorious victory. VICTORY EMMANUEL) Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

11th April 1943 Cartolina Postale 11th April 1943 Cartolina Postale 11.04.1943 The enemy is listening reverse.jpeg 11.04.1943 The enemy is listening reverse.jpeg 1/1 CARTOLINA POSTALE PER LE FORZE ARMATE. Italian propaganda postcard featuring a silhouetted figure (wearing a British army helmet?) below which is a message similar to the Fougasse 'Careless Talk Costs Lives' campaign. The card is sent from Rome by a soldier of the 10° Raggruppento, 148th Compagnia Marconisti. Ref: 11.04.1943 'Sii sempre riservato su tutto ciò che riguarda il servizio. Denuncia ai tuoi superiori - con ogni cautela - lo sconosciuto che si dimostra troppo curioso su tali argomenti.' (Always be confidential about everything related to the service. Report to your superiors - with all caution - any stranger who is too curious about such matters.) Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

3rd September 1939 British Mobilisation 3rd September 1939 British Mobilisation 03.09.1939 Call Up Page 5.jpeg 03.09.1939 Call Up Page 5.jpeg 1/1 British Mobilisation Call Up document (Army Form D.463) informing Mr. Eastwood of the Army Reserve to join the Royal Artillery at the R.A. Reception Centre in Ascot on the 4th September 1939. Ref: 03.09.1939 - 29/78 It is to be remembered that Germany invaded Poland on the 1st September 1939, instigating the official mobilisation of the British Army, the evacuation of children from London, and Black Out measures to be taken. However, it wasn't until the 3rd September that Britain (and France) declared war on Germany. Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

23rd April 1939 JB: Nikolsburg 23rd April 1939 JB: Nikolsburg 23.04.1939 JB_ Nikolsberg reverse.jpeg 23.04.1939 JB_ Nikolsberg reverse.jpeg 1/1 Postcard sent from Nikolsburg to an address in Magdeburg. Featuring special cancellation JB:Nikolsburg1/585. Ref: 23.04.1939 NIKOLSBURG cancellation as featured in the Bochmann catalogues (1952) Note: This is the only special cancellation of the 3rd Reich period. JB:Nikolsburg1/585 - 'Kreistag/ der/ N.S.D.A.P./ 23.4.39'. Ref: 23.04.1939 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

26th February 1947 Mi.1-13 Corner Edge Dates 26th February 1947 Mi.1-13 Corner Edge Dates 26.02.1947 Mi.4 Printing Date reverse.jpeg 26.02.1947 Mi.4 Printing Date reverse.jpeg 1/1 Registered cover posted from Kaiserslautern to Landsweiler-Reden. Featuring a French Zone 8 Pf definitive with corner edge printing date (27.8.1946). Ref: 26.02.1947 - 14/101 French Zone definitives (Mi.1-13) with corner edge printing dates 5 Pf with printing date 14.03.1946 - see 28/49 8 pf (Mi.4) with printing date '27.8.1946' (machine 16). Ref: 26.02.1947 - 14/101 15 Pf (Mi.7) with printing date '4.9.46' (machine 17). Ref: 14.04.1948 - 15/30 30 Pf (Mi.10) with a feint '46' to margin and no other numbers visible. Ref: 23.01.1947 - 16/34 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Stamp first issued on 4th May 1936 to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the death of Otto Von Guericke. Mi.608 (04.05.1936) 1/1 Stamp first issued on 4th May 1936 to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the death of Otto Von Guericke. Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

13th April 1936 Franz Xaver Schwarz 1/1 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Postcard titled 'Fackelstaffellauf Olympia - Berlin' (torch relay Olympia - Berlin), depicting an athlete bearing the Olympic Torch and a map marking the route taken from Olympia to Berlin. Imprint 'Werbe-Postkarte Nr.6'. Ref: 31.07.1936, BV1329 31st July 1936 Olympics - Werbe-Postkarte 1/1 Postcard titled 'Fackelstaffellauf Olympia - Berlin' (torch relay Olympia - Berlin), depicting an athlete bearing the Olympic Torch and a map marking the route taken from Olympia to Berlin. Imprint 'Werbe-Postkarte Nr.6'. Ref: 31.07.1936, BV1329 Published by the Reichssportverlag GmbH., Berlin, this postcard represents number six in a set of ten fundraising cards designed for the 1936 Summer Olympic Games. The 1936 Games introduced the idea of contestants bearing the Olympic Flame as they travelled the country publicising the forthcoming event. The Olympic Bell - Imprint: 'Werbe-Postkart Nr. 1' . Ref: 11.08.1936 - 25/7, BV1328 SEE GERMANIA V.10/4 p.172 'Reichssportfeld - Dietrich Eckart - Freilichtbühne' . Imprint: 'Werbe-Postkart Nr. 7' . Ref: 08.08.1936 - 25/4, BV1329 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

7th November 1936 1/0 7th November 1936 Schloss Moos, Station Langenisarhofen, Niederbayen to 27 Queen Square, Bath Dear Madeleine! Why don’t you write for such a long time? I am starving for a letter from you. Did I write something very rude in my last letter and you are cross on me, or what is the matter? How are you? Please write to me more often. We are O.K. I spent a very nice time in Lindau at the lake of Constance. I was there on a visit to my aunt, and some cousins of mine. It was very nice indeed to live on the side of such a great lake. There are swans swimming on it. We went out on a ship, but not sailing, only rowing. When you come for a journey to Germany try and see Lindau. It’s a lovely old town built on a island in the middle of the lake. Now I am staying here at Moos with Muck for a week. There is another sister of my father who has a girl a little younger than myself. We have a great time. My cousin Therese stayed in England this summer for six months. She liked it immensely, and tells us now how fine it was there. Oh! I should like to go there too, but I don’t think I ever will. I do not see any cinema, though we went very often to the opera. We saw Troubadour (Verdi), Boheme (Puccini), Lohengrin (Wagner), Barber of Sevilla (Rossini), Postillon de Lonjumeau (Adam), Der fliegende Holländer (Wagner), Cosi Fan Tutte (Mozart). I enjoyed them very much. You know, it is very easy for us to go because Munich is so near. We are only waiting for snow to come, then we shall go on ski. I can’t go yet, but I will learn it. It will be great fun. Please write to my Leutstetten address, as I shall be back there soon. Give my best regards to your family. Yours affectionately Loll P.S. I am reading heaps of English books. But I don’t think my English did improve. The stories are very nice and interesting. Did you ever read Marion Crawford? She wrote the “White Sisters” (it was a film too, very touching) or “The Undesirable Governess”, it was so funny, one burst with laughter. Perhaps you don’t like it, it is a bit old fashioned. Love from Lol Dear Madeleine! Here is a sequel to my letter. The first I wrote after getting up in the morning and when I went down to breakfast, I found your letter. So thank you ever so much for it, and please forget my sighing after a letter of yours. No, we have no Xmas puddings, though heard of them a lot. I think it a very nice custom. As I have to do nothing, not even learning, I enjoy myself rather easily. That’s why I go on visits every now and then. I can’t sit at home knitting, reading or listening in the whole day long. It would be too dull. I thought of learning to cook, bit I am not clever at all. I began sewing a pinafore. It is the first thing I ever sew in my life except doll’s dresses. I did not know how to sew on a machine. But now I am learning it. I feel very clever and proud, though I did not yet finish it. I am very slow, and often not at home, you see. Good-bye, Auf Wiedersehen, (when, I wonder? perhaps next year, if you come to Germany, it would be awfully nice.) Loll Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

25th December 1943 Stalag 367 25th December 1943 Stalag 367 1/1 POW letter sheet mail sent by Colonel Romano Altomani to Guastalla, Italy, from Stalag 367 at Tschenstochau (General Government). With grey pencil strike-through of the words 'Kriegsgefangenenpost/ des prisonniers de guerre', which has been over-stamped with 'Militär-Internierte'. The inmate status changing from prisoner of war to military internee. From Autumn 1943 Italian prisoners were sent to the camp. Ref: 25.12.1943 Stalag 367 'To tell how the Germans treated them, just go to page 125 of the latter and as always tasty book by Alfio Caruso ( Save the Italians, Neri Pozza), where it is said that in Stalag 367 in Poland one day when the temperature was below zero, the German police rounded up the Italian prisoners and subjected them to a search that lasted five and a half hours. Two Italian officers whose appearance had not been deemed up to par had their trousers stripped away, leaving them in their underwear. So much so that to the protests of some of those who were at the top of the CSR, who complained that the condition of Italian prisoners was that of "semi-slaves", Adolf Hitler had replied: "Everything we do, we do for the Duce, because the German people cannot love those who have betrayed them". Said in other words:the Italian prisoners were waste, rubbish, people who deserved nothing at all. Not even of being enlisted in the formations that fought alongside the Germans, and this was because the Italians had shown that they were worthless on the battlefield. Caruso, whose books must be read line by line since each line indicates a fact or marks a character, writes that Mussolini himself read with satisfaction of a military episode in which the "Badogliani" soldiers had behaved valiantly against the Germans. Besides, he knew that he himself was an exceptional prisoner of the Germans.' Text translated from www.ilfoglio.it Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page