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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

PSST (Feldpostsammelstellen) PSST (Feldpostsammelstellen) 1/0 Example of a Munich PSST Collecting Station cancellation on a feldpost Vorbindezettel. Ref: 25.04.1940 The cancellations of the field postal collection and control centres (PSST) were cancels of the German Reichspost. However, they were used almost exclusively for cancelling collection envelopes, pre-binding slips and bag flags. Loose translation from MFP Variations Berlin PSST (f). Type 1. On a Vorbindezettel. Ref: 19.01.1940 - 30/34, MFP1/63 See 09.11.1940 (Berlin) PSSt Dresden (b). Type 4. On a Beutelfahnen. Ref: 20.12.1939, MFP10/64 PSST Düsseldorf (c). Type 2. On a Vorbindezettel. Ref: 05.06.1940, MFP14/64 PSSt Frankfurt (Main) (a). Type 4. On a Vorbindezettel. Ref: 11.02.1940, MFP16/64 Frankfurt (Main) SSt. Type 5. On a Vorbindezettel. Ref: 22.12.1940, MFP17/64 Frankfurt (Main) PSSt. Type 6. On a Vorbindezettel. Ref: 11.02.1940, MFP18/64 Kassel PSST (b). Type 8. On a Vorbindezettel. Ref: 26.04.1940, MFP25/64 Königsberg PSST (a). Type 1. On a Vorbindezettel. Ref: 03.05.1940, MFP29/64 München PSST (b). Type 17. On a Vorbindezettel. Ref: 15.04.1940 - 25/73, MFP35/64 München PSST (c). Type 17. On a Vorbindezettel. Ref: 25.04.1940, MFP35/64 PSST (x) (Nuremberg) Type 20. On cover. Ref: 19.10.1939, MFP55/65 Postsammelstelle Wien (a). Type 11. On a Beutelfahnen. Ref: 01.01.1940, MFP53/65 Postsammelstelle Kassel (hand-stamp). Type 22a. On a Vorbindezettel. Ref: 26.04.1940, MFP26/65 Postsammelstelle Stuttgart (hand-stamp). Type 23a. On a Vorbindezettel. Ref: 25.04.1940, MFP49/65 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Postcard depicting the Heinkel He 60 (most likely the He 60C variant produced in the late summer of 1934). Postmark 'Altes Lager/ Kr. Juterborg'. Ref: 07.03.1936 7th March 1936 Heinkel He 60 07.03.1936-altes-lager-juterborg-he-60-reverse.jpeg 07.03.1936-altes-lager-juterborg-he-60-reverse.jpeg 1/1 Postcard depicting the Heinkel He 60 (most likely the He 60C variant produced in the late summer of 1934). Postmark 'Altes Lager/ Kr. Juterborg'. Ref: 07.03.1936 Heinkel He 60 The Heinkel He 60 was a German single-engined biplane reconnaissance seaplane designed to be catapulted from Kriegsmarine (German navy) warships of the 1930s. The Heinkel He 60 was designed by Heinkel engineer Reinhold Mewes, the designer of the He 59. The resulting design was a single-engined biplane of mixed wood and metal construction with fabric covering. Its single bay wings were of equal-span and had significant stagger. The first prototype flew early in 1933 and proved to be underpowered with its 492 kW (660 hp) BMW VI engine. The second prototype had a more powerful version of the BMW engine, but this only marginally improved its performance and was unreliable, so production aircraft reverted to the original engine. Of conventional configuration, the He 60 was a sturdy aircraft, designed (as the specification required) to be capable of operating on the open sea. As a result, it was always somewhat underpowered for its weight, which made handling sluggish and the aircraft vulnerable to enemy fire. Attempts were made to solve its lack of power by fitting one aircraft with a Daimler-Benz DB 600 engine, but engines were not available for production. About 200 He 60Cs and Ds were built by Arado and Weser. Initial deliveries of the He 60 were to Kriegsmarine training units in June 1933. From 1934, the major production version, the He 60C began to be delivered to the shipboard observation seaplane units of the Kriegsmarine , operating from the catapults of all German cruisers. It also saw action with Spanish Nationalist forces during the Civil War. Heinkel He 60 (most likely the He 60D that went into production in 1936. Ref: 07.02.1940 In 1939 it was replaced as a shipboard aircraft first by the He 114 in service, then soon after by the Arado Ar 196 , but it remained in service with several coast reconnaissance Staffeln (squadrons) when World War II began. It had been withdrawn from front-line service by 1940, but returned to use following Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, being used by various SAGr (Seeaufklarungsgruppe/Maritime reconnaissance group) for coastal patrol work in the Baltic and Mediterranean Seas. All He 60s were removed from service by October 1943. Source: Wikipedia Altes Lager/ Jüterbog Airfield Jüterbog Airfield (also known as Altes Lager airfield ) was a military air base located west of the town of Jüterbog, in Brandenburg, Germany. Nowadays paragliders and hang gliders start from Altes Lager. Developed as part of Nazi Germany's program to develop the German population's flying skills in preparation for war, it was opened as a glider training establishment. Taken over by the Luftwaffe in 1933, it was fully developed as a military airfield. After being overrun by the Red Army in May 1945, towards the end of World War II, it came under the control of the occupying forces of the Soviet Union . From this point forward, several units of the Soviet Air Force were stationed at the site. After extending the runway to 2,600 meters (8,500 ft), the Soviet military added an anti-aircraft missile site 5.6 kilometers (3.5 mi) west of the near Lindow. The 833rd Fighter Aviation Regiment (833 IAP) was initially equipped with the Mikoyan MiG-9, later replaced by the Mikoyan MiG-29 'Fulcrum-A/B' fighter and Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 UM 'Flogger-C' operational trainer. The regiment was part of the 16th Guards Fighter Aviation Division within the 16th Air Army with headquarters in Damgarten. With the reunification of Germany on 3rd October 1990, the Soviet Armed Forces agreed to return all bases by the end of 1994. The airfield was handed back to the district authorities in 1992. Source: Wikipedia Link to a website with information regarding the airfield at Jüterbog Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

9th December 1943 FPN 14399 9th December 1943 FPN 14399 1/1 Feldpost using a window envelope and pictorial letterhead sent from a solder of a Flak Division based in Berlin (FPN 14399). To the reverse there is a label depicting a golden Luftwaffe eagle. Ref: 9.12.1943 - 17/6 Pictorial letterheads sent by correspondent at FPN 14399 (link to golden eagle labels) Ref: 09.12.1943 - 17/6 Ref: 16.12.1943 - 15/50 FPN 14399 (Reserve Flak Division 123) The Reserve Flak Division 123 was formed on 26th August 1939 in Berlin-Blankwitz from parts of the I./Flak Regiment 12 with three heavy and two light batteries. The division was deployed in Berlin. In 1940, the 1st battery became the 3rd/mixed Flak Division 604 and was then reorganised. In January 1941, the division was renamed the II./Flak Regiment 12. Reorganised in January 1941 in Berlin as the mixed Flak-Abteilung 123 (T) with three heavy and two light batteries. The division was again deployed exclusively in Berlin and renamed I./Flak-Regiment 42 in July 1941. Third reorganisation in August 1941 as reserve tower anti-aircraft division 123 with six batteries. The division was deployed in Berlin and was subordinate to the 1st Flak Division. At the end of 1941, the 2nd battery was exchanged for the 2nd/heavy anti-aircraft division 335. From September 1943, the division was again called mixed anti-aircraft division 123 (T). In mid-1944, the division was reduced to three batteries. Source: lexikon--der--wehrmacht-de Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Self address collectors card featuring a special cancel from Stettin (ref: JB:Stettin13/697). Ref 09.01.1938 9th January 1938 JB: Stettin 09.01.1938 Stettin reverse.jpeg 09.01.1938 Stettin reverse.jpeg 1/1 Self address collectors card featuring a special cancel from Stettin (ref: JB:Stettin13/697). Ref 09.01.1938 STETTIN cancellations as featured in the Bochmann catalogues (1952) JB:Stettin13/697 - 'Tag der Briefmarke/ Reichsbund der/ Philatelisten/ 9.1.1938/ R d P'. Ref: 09.01.1938 JB:Stettin16/697 - 'Gautreffen 1938 - Gau Pommern - Stettin/ 12.6.1938'. Ref: 12.06.1938 - 15/11 Contact Brief History to inform us of additonal information regarding this page

Self-addressed commercial cover sent from Osterode to Hannover. Featuring stamp sequence W125 tied with cancel JB:Osterode2/613. Ref: 18.03.1938 - 16/23 18th March 1938 JB: Osterode 18.03.1938 - 16_23 W125 Osterode reverse.jpeg 18.03.1938 - 16_23 W125 Osterode reverse.jpeg 1/1 Self-addressed commercial cover sent from Osterode to Hannover. Featuring stamp sequence W125 tied with cancel JB:Osterode2/613. Ref: 18.03.1938 - 16/23 OSTERODE cancellations as featured in the Bochmann catalogues (1952) JB:Osterode2/613 (1938) - 'Truhenstadt/ Sösetalsperre'. Ref: 18.03.1938 - 16/23 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page