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Postcard depicting Hans von Tschammer und Osten (1887-1943). The quote beneath the image is part of a longer section, which in full reads, 'Es wird in Zukunft keinen Unterschied mehr geben können zwischen dem Geist der deutsche Leibeserziehung und dem Geist der SA. Jahn und Hitler verleihen der neuen Erziehungsform der Leibesübungen eine unüberwindliche Kraft, durch die deutsche Jünglinge und Männer zu einsatzbereiten Volksbürgern erzogen' (In the future, there will no longer be any difference between the spirit of German physical education and the spirit of the SA. Jahn and Hitler lent the new form of physical education an insurmountable power, through which German youths and men were educated to be ready citizens.). The 'Jahn' it refers to being Friedrich Jahn (1778-1852) a German gymnastics educator and nationalist whose writing is credited with the founding of the German gymnastics (Turner) movement. Ref: 06.06.1936 6th June 1936 Hans von Tschammer und Osten 1/1 Postcard depicting Hans von Tschammer und Osten (1887-1943). The quote beneath the image is part of a longer section, which in full reads, 'Es wird in Zukunft keinen Unterschied mehr geben können zwischen dem Geist der deutsche Leibeserziehung und dem Geist der SA. Jahn und Hitler verleihen der neuen Erziehungsform der Leibesübungen eine unüberwindliche Kraft, durch die deutsche Jünglinge und Männer zu einsatzbereiten Volksbürgern erzogen' (In the future, there will no longer be any difference between the spirit of German physical education and the spirit of the SA. Jahn and Hitler lent the new form of physical education an insurmountable power, through which German youths and men were educated to be ready citizens.). The 'Jahn' it refers to being Friedrich Jahn (1778-1852) a German gymnastics educator and nationalist whose writing is credited with the founding of the German gymnastics (Turner) movement. Ref: 06.06.1936 Hans von Tschammer und Osten (1887 - 1943) Hans von Tschammer und Osten was a German sport official, SA leader and a member of the Reichstag for the Nazi Party of Nazi Germany. Hans von Tschammer und Osten led the German Sports Office Deutscher Reichsausschuss für Leibesübungen (DRA) 'German Reich Commission for Physical Exercise' after the Nazi seizure of power in 1933. In July the same year Hans von Tschammer was granted the title of Reichssportführer , 'Reich Sports Leader', and the whole sports sphere in Germany was placed under his control. He re-established the organisation he led, transforming it into the Sports governing body of the Third Reich, Deutscher Reichsbund für Leibesübungen (DRL) 'Sports League of the German Reich'. In December 1938 it was renamed Nationalsozialistischer Reichsbund für Leibesübungen "National-Socialist Sports League of the German Reich". Von Tschammer held the high-profile post of Reichssportführer until his death in 1943. The name of today's DFB-Pokal, Deutscher Fußball-Bund-Pokal 'German Football-Federation Cup', first contested in the 1934-35 season during von Tschammer's tenure as Reichssportführer , was known as Hans von Tschammer und Osten-Pokal ('Tschammerpokal') until it was last played in Nazi Germany in 1943. Many other innovative improvements regarding the organization of sports events that von Tschammer's formidable Reich Sports Organ introduced, like the Olympic torch relay, are still in use today. In 1929 von Tschammer joined the Nazi Party and became a member of the Party's paramilitary organisation, the SA, with the rank of SA- Standartenführer . In March 1932 he took over the leadership of the SA- Gruppe Mitte (Center Group) headquartered in Dessau and was promoted to SA- Gruppenführer . At the July 1932 German federal election, von Tschammer und Osten won a seat as a member of the German Reichstag from electoral constituency 10 (Magdeburg). He would remain a Reichstag deputy until his death. After Adolf Hitler's accession to power, von Tschammer was named Reichskommissar für Turnen und Sport (Reich Commissioner for Gym and Sports) of the German Sports Office Deutscher Reichsausschuss für Leibesübungen (DRA) in April 1933. Although he had been a relatively unknown figure in German sports, von Tschammer saw as his goal the use of sports 'to improve the morale and productivity of German workers.' Sporting skills were made a criterion for school graduation as well as a necessary qualification for certain jobs and admission to universities. Von Tschammer disbanded the DRA, branded as a 'bourgeois entity', on 5th May 1933 (officially 10th May). He was then elevated to Reichssportführer on 19th July and the whole sports sphere in Germany was placed under his control. In January 1934, he was named the head of the Sportamt (Sports Office) of Strength Through Joy, the Nazi recreational organisation. He replaced the DRA with a Nazi-oriented organisation, the Deutscher Reichsbund für Leibesübungen (DRL) on 27th July 1934, to serve as the official sports governing body of Nazi Germany. Von Tschammer was an active and able promoter of sports in Nazi Germany. He instituted the present-day German Football-Federation Cup. He also commissioned the publication of Sport und Staat (Sports and State), a massive four-volume Nazi propaganda report on the organised sports activities in the Third Reich. Sport und Staat was made by Arno Breitmeyer and Hitler's personal photographer Heinrich Hoffmann. This lavishly illustrated work had many pictures and information about the various Nazi organisations, i.e. SA, NSKK, Bund Deutscher Mädel, Hitler Jugend, etc. Printed in 1934 by the publishing house of the German Sports Aid Funds, a branch of the DRL, only volume one and two of a planned series of four volumes were published. The aims of the promotion of sports in the Third Reich included hardening the spirit of every German as well as making German citizens feel that they were part of a wider national purpose. This was in line with the ideals of Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, the 'Father of physical exercises', who connected the steeling of one's own body to a healthy spirit and promoted the idea of a unified, strong Germany. A more controversial aim was the demonstration of Aryan physical superiority. Under von Tschammer's leadership, German Jewish athletes were systematically hindered by being denied adequate facilities and the opportunity to compete. Hans von Tschammer und Osten enjoyed the Nazi sports festivals in which he took a keen interest as organiser. He appears often as a spectator in a white suit during the massive displays of Nazi pageantry. On 17th August 1936, von Tschammer was appointed to the Prussian State Council by Prussian Minister President Hermann Göring. The 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin were held during von Tschammer's tenure as Reichssportführer and President of the German Olympic Committee. He played a major role in the structure and organisation of the Olympic Games together with Carl Diem, who was the former secretary of the Deutscher Reichsausschuss für Leibesübungen (DRA). Von Tschammer entrusted the organisation of the Fourth Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen to Karl Ritter von Halt, whom he named President of the Committee for the organisation of the games. Von Tschammer would be later blamed by historians for enforcing a ban on non-Aryans in Germany's Olympic team, a fact that was condemned internationally as a violation of the Olympic ethical code. But it is doubtful that he was the only one of the NSRL leaders behind that decision. Despite his major role in the Olympics and in the world of sports of his time, von Tschammer never became a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), a post he craved. In 1937 Karl Ritter von Halt was elected as member of the Executive Committee of the IOC instead of him. In January 1937, he was made head of the Sports and Physical Exercise Department in the Reich Ministry of the Interior and, in 1938, he was given the rank of State Secretary there. The same year he was promoted to SA- Obergruppenführer . [Link to Turn-u.Sportsfest Breslau 1938] However, von Tschammer's influence began rapidly eroding, as war preparations diminished the influence of sports in Nazi Germany in favour of militarism. Von Tschammer would never see the end of the organisation he had led for so long, nor Germany's defeat in World War II, for he died from pneumonia in Berlin in 1943. The assets he left behind were negligible for a man of his position. Von Tschammer was succeeded as Reichssportführer by Arno Breitmeyer. Source: Wikipedia Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

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23rd December 1947 J. Hahn 23rd December 1947 J. Hahn 1/1 Commercial letter-sheet sent from J. Hahn 'Briefmarken-Versand' in Kottern b.Kempten to an address in Heilbronn. Featuring a five-page price list of postage stamps. Ref: 23.12.1947 - 17/20 1st page 2nd & 3rd pages 4th page 5th page Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

1st July 1946 1st July 1946 1/1 Cover and enclosed letters with mismatched correspondents and dates (Captain Kenneth B. Gundry being identified as Captain Charles Gundry)... with a heartfelt letter from former Camp Grant POW Wilhelm Struckmann. Together with a copy reply from 'Hauptmann' Gundry. Ref: 01.07.1946 - 13/5 Enclosed letter and copy reply Letter from Wilhelm Struckmann to Captain Charles Gundry, dated 1st July 1946. Copy of the reply sent by 'Kenneth B. Gundry, Hauptmann, Infantry' to Wilhelm Struckmann, dated 19th August 1946

5th August 1943 Cartolina Postale 5th August 1943 Cartolina Postale 1/1 CARTOLINA POSTALE PER LE FORZA ARMATE. Italian postcard sent via 'Posta Militare' (from a soldier in the 388th Infantry Regiment 'VENEZIA') to Vigevano. The image advertises the 'Artists in Arms' exhibition, Rome 1942. Ref: 05.08.1943 PRIMA MOSTRA DEGLI ARTISTS ITALIANI IN ARMI, ROMA, PRIMAVERA 1942 XX (First Exhibition of Artists in Arms Rome, Spring 1942 XX) The 'First Exhibition of Italian Artists in Arms', was inaugurated, in the presence of the King of Italy, at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome in 1942, by 'artist-soldiers' who served in the ranks of their country, in North Africa, the Balkans, Russia and Greece. An exhibition subsequently hosted - at the turn of 1942 and 1943 - in major European capitals and embellished with drawings and paintings by artists the likes of, to name but a few, futurist Cesare Andreoni, Ezio Castellucci, Captain of the Engineer Corps, war veteran and twice decorated for valour, and Guido Colucci whose works are also currently housed in the Museo Uffizi in Florence, the Sforza Castle in Milan and the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome. 388th Infantry Regiment 'Venezia' 1941 - On 1st December, the 383rd Infantry Regiment 'Venezia' was formed by transformation of the 235th Infantry Regiment. Deployed in Montenegro, the Regiment joined the 83rd and 84th Infantry Regiments, and the 19th Artillery Regiment. 1942 - In February, the Regiment was sent to Yugoslavian territory and deployed to Plijvlie in Montenegro where it was placed under the Alpine Division 'Pusteria', which it left the following 18th April to rejoin the 'Venezia' Division. 1943 - The Regiment continued to carry out orderly functions and from 17th June was assigned to the Territorial Defence Command of Albania and deployed in the Tirana area where he was disbanded on 8th September following the events that led to the armistice. Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Postcard issued to commemorate the Saar Referendum. The slogan reads, 'We died for you! And you?' Published by F. Maas & Sohn AG, Saarbrücken. Ref: 13.01.1935 - 24/28, BV1237 Note: There are two other variations of this postcard; one with the same image but with a special red wax seal commission seal on the reverse; the second has the same image but with the slogan 'We died for you! And you will betray us?'. 13th January 1935 Saar Postcards (II) 1/1 Postcard issued to commemorate the Saar Referendum. The slogan reads, 'We died for you! And you?' Published by F. Maas & Sohn AG, Saarbrücken. Ref: 13.01.1935 - 24/28, BV1237 Note: There are two other variations of this postcard; one with the same image but with a special red wax seal commission seal on the reverse; the second has the same image but with the slogan 'We died for you! And you will betray us?'. Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Mi.19-20, Mi.21-22 (04.1946) Spremberg Unofficial Mi.19-20, Mi.21-22 (04.1946) Spremberg Unofficial 1/1 Collectors cover featuring Spremberg (Niederlausitz) unofficial issues Mi.19A/B-20A/B (8 pf orange & 12 Pf pink-red) and Mi.21A/B-22A/B (8 Pf cyan & 12 Pf dark green), together with Mi.8A (4 Pf Spremberg official issue). Ref: 18.04.1946 - 16/91 Mi.19A/B - 20A/B, Mi.21A/B - 22A/B Spremberg Reconstruction (III & IV) Mi.19A/B - Mi.20A/B Mi.19A. Ref: 18.04.1946 - 16/91 Mi.19B. Ref: 18.04.1946 - 16/91 Mi.20A (left edge). Ref: 18.04.1946 - 16/91 Mi.20B. Ref: 18.04.1946 - 16/91 Mi.19A/B - Mi.20A/B Mi.21A (lower left corner). Ref: 18.04.1946 - 16/91 Mi.21B. Ref: 18.04.1946 - 16/91 Mi.22A (upper edge). Ref: 18.04.1946 - 16/91 Mi.22B. Ref: 18.04.1946 - 16/91 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

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3rd September 1947 JB: Leipzig 3rd September 1947 JB: Leipzig 03.09.1947 Leipzig Messe Souvenir Sheet reverse.jpeg 03.09.1947 Leipzig Messe Souvenir Sheet reverse.jpeg 1/1 Souvenir Sheet for the Leipzig Autumn Fair featuring Mi.965 and Mi.966. Featuring cancelaltion JB:Leipzig198/486The image to the reverse depicts the charter where all three annual market/fair dates are confirmed for the first time by Royal Decree of the Roman-German King Maximilian I (appointed Holy Roman Emperor in 1508.) Ref: 03.09.1947 - 15/76 LEIPZIG cancellations as featured in the Bochmann catalogues (1952) JB:Leipzig118/477 - 'Presse-/ Postamt/ Haus der/ Nationen/ Messestadt'. Ref: 02.09.1937 JB:Leipzig128/478 - 'Reichsmessestadt'. Ref: 19.10.1945 Note on JB:Leipzig128/478 - This cancel was used in Leipzig between 1938 and 1946 with numerous alpha-numeric sequences (mostly C1 and C2). However, it is noted that cancellations post-war 1945 command a higher price in the Bochmann catalogue. JB:Leipzig135/480 and JB:Leipzig137/480 see 12.03.1939 JB:Leipzig143/481 - 'Gautag Sachsen' (watchman figure). Ref: 22.05.1938 JB:Leipzig185/485 - 'Volkssolidarität/ gegen/ Volksnot' (date dial to right). Ref: 28.01.1946 - 15/77 JB:Leipzig185/485 - 'Volkssolidarität/ gegen/ Volksnot' (band stamp). Ref: 29.03.1946 - 15/78 JB:Leipzig198/486 - 'Gedenkfeier 450 Jahre Messe-Privileg/ 1497 1947'. Ref: 03.09.1947 - 15/76 Notes on JB:Leipzig198/486 - The postmark was used by the special post office at the commemoration, where only invited guests were allowed to post. After the end of the fair, the fair office sold commemorative sheets with special stamps bearing this postmark. JB:Leipzig219/488 - 'Kampf/ gegen Krieg und/ Faschismus/ Woche des Friedens und der Völkerverständigung'. Ref: 12.09.1948 - 15/47 Generic cancellations JB:411/842 - 'Ein/ Postsparbuch/ bietet viele Vorteile!' Ref: 05.01.1944 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

21st January 1947 Egon Rudolf 21st January 1947 Egon Rudolf 1/1 Commercial letter-sheet sent from stamp dealer Egon Rudolf of Neugersdorf to a collector in Briese. Featuring a printed representation of Soviet Zone postage stamp Mi.B I. With further information and price list printed internally and to the reverse. Ref:21.01.1947 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

20th October 1946 Souvenir Sheet 20th October 1946 Souvenir Sheet 20.10.1946 Souvenir Sheet Mi.937 reverse.jpeg 20.10.1946 Souvenir Sheet Mi.937 reverse.jpeg 1/1 An A6 sheet (thin paper), produced for the 'Tag der Briefmarke' 20th October 1946. Featuring a 1 RM definitive from the 1st Control Commission issue (Feb./May 1946). With special cancellation from Duisburg-Ruhrort. Ref: 20.10.1946 - 15/23 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page