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Adolf Hitler 1941 Booklet (12.1941) 1/0 Parcel label (E/0147) detached from a larger envelope featuring H-Pane 121 with staple holes indicating it is taken from a stamp booklet (either 49.1, 49.2 or 49.3). Ref: 25.04.1942 Fridericus 1933 , Hindenburg 1933 , Wagner 1933 , Hindenburg 1934 , Professions 1934 , Folk Costumes 1935 , Olympic Games 1936 , Hindenburg 1936/37 , Modern Buildings 1936 , Hindenburg 1937/39 , Ships 1937 , Ostmark 1938 , Hindenburg 1939 , Buildings 1939 , Hindenburg 1940/41 , Buildings 1940 , Adolf Hitler 1941 Adolf Hitler 1941 Booklet Pane Variations H-pannes 117, 118, 119, 120, 121 & 122 H-pane 117 S270 (Mi.784 + Mi.781) from booklet H-pane117. Ref: 01.06.1942 H-pane 118 S274 (Mi.782+Mi.785) from booklet H-pane 118. Ref: 31.03.1942 H-pane 119 Upper section of H-Pane 119 with W151 (A13.3+Mi.783). A13.3, 'Spare bei der Postsparkasse!' (Save at the Post Savings Bank!). Ref: 23.12.1941 Lower section of H-pane 119 with W153 (A16.3 + Mi.783 + Mi.786). A16.3, 'Werde/ Postscheck-/ teilnehmer!' (Become a Postal Check user!). Ref :04.02.1942 - 15/6 H-pane 120 H-pane 121 H-Pane 121 (7 x Mi.785 + A 14.3, 'Glückwünsche/ durch/ Schmuckblatt/ telegramm' (Good wishes with an ornamental telegram!). Ref: 25.04.1942 H-pane 122 W157 (A15.2 + Mi.788) from booklet H-pane 122. A15.2, 'Tretet in die NSV ein!' (Join the NSV!). Ref: 04.02.1942 - 15/6 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page
10th November 1941 Stalag XIII-B Stalag XIII-B in Weiden. Postal Parcel instructions sent to a correspondent in Belgium. Reverse. Stalag XIII-B in Weiden. Postal Parcel instructions sent to a correspondent in Belgium. Reverse. 1/1 Stalag XIII-B, Weiden. Postal Parcel instructions sent to a correspondent in Belgium. According to Mattiello (2003) there were approximately 1,780 Belgian POWs within the camp at this time. Ref: 10.11.1941 Stalag XIII-B Stalag XIII-B opened in 1940 near the town of Weiden in Germany, and housed prisoners of war from many nations: Russia, Great Britain, the U.S., France, Belgium, Poland, Serbia, Spain, and Yugoslavia. At its peak, in April of 1944, the camp held around 35,000 men. Roughly 90% of the men were assigned to work details in the Weiden area. Some worked on farms, others in factories, and some unlucky prisoners were sent to work in nearby coal mines under brutal conditions. Instructions regarding the sending of parcels to POW's at Stalag XIII-B. From a Belgian POW. Ref: 10.11.1941 The Western POW's were kept separate from the large number of Russian prisoners. Stalin hadn't signed the Geneva Convention and the treatment of the Soviet prisoners was appalling. The mortality rate was extremely high from malnutrition and disease. A gruesome consequence: the mayor of Weiden in 1941 asked the commandant of the nearby Flossburg concentration camp for permission to send the dead Russian prisoners to their crematorium, because the town cemetery was getting too full. In 1945, after the Flossburg camp was shut down, 26 Russians were buried in the Weiden cemetery and are still there. All the other POW's buried in the town cemetery have been returned to their own countries. On 16th April 1945, Allied fighter planes attacked a train passing through Weiden; the explosions caused extensive damage to some houses and three of the barracks, and several prisoners were killed. According to one of the Belgian prisoners, the Allies knew the camp was there; one of the pilots flew past and waggled his wings at them, as a friendly gesture to the prisoners. Stalag XIII B was liberated by the American forces on April 22, 1945. Source: uncommon-travel-germany.com (2025) Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page
16th January 1941 1/0 Commercial cover sent from Genoa to Freiburg in Germany. Featuring German censor hand stamps originating in ABP Munich and Italian postage stamp Mi. 309X. Ref: 16.01.1941 Variations of Munich durchlaufstempel censor handstamp 'Ad' 'Ad' (ø19-20mm) with broken circle to the right - HLDD1.1.9/139. Reference16.01.1941 - 10/20
22nd July 1941 1/1 Feldpost cover with a few anomalies: Bochmann - JB:Unterschondorf1/737 is not listed (skips from 1937 to 1944); feldpost stempel states FPN 14783, though address to reverse states FPN 01133. Reply via Twitter (07.02.2023), '14783 belongs to HQ, 01183 to HQ Co, Schützenregiment 2, attached to 2.Panzerdivision. That fits. It's not unusual that the Bochmann does not list all years of usage of a cancellation.' Ref: 22.07.1941
27th September 1941 Vienna 27.09.1941 Vienna reverse.jpeg 27.09.1941 Vienna reverse.jpeg 1/1 Postcard depicting a roof-top view of Vienna, with emphasis on a Hochhaus (tower block) located on the Herrengasse. Ref: 27.09.1941 Also see 28/40 (Rathaus) Vienna Link to map of Vienna (Herrengasse) Vienna (German: Wien) is the capital, most populous city, and one of nine federal states of Austria. It is Austria's primate city, with just over two million inhabitants. Its larger metropolitan area has a population of nearly 2.9 million, representing nearly one-third of the country's population. Vienna is the cultural, economic, and political center of the country, the fifth-largest city by population in the European Union, and the most-populous of the cities on the Danube river. The city of Vienna became the center of socialist politics from 1919 to 1934, a period referred to as Red Vienna ( Das rote Wien ). After a new breed of socialist politicians won the local elections they engaged in a brief but ambitious municipal experiment. Social democrats had won an absolute majority in the May 1919 municipal election and ruled the city council with 100 of the 165 seats. Jakob Reumann was appointed by the city council as city mayor. The theoretical foundations of so-called Austromarxism were established by Otto Bauer, Karl Renner, and Max Adler. In the Austrian Civil War of 1934 Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss sent the Austrian Armed Forces to shell civilian housing such as the Karl Marx-Hof occupied by the Republikanischer Schutzbund, the socialist militia. In 1938, after a triumphant entry into Austria, the Austrian-born German Chancellor Adolf Hitler spoke to Austrian Germans from the balcony of the Neue Burg, a part of the Hofburg at the Heldenplatz. In the ensuing days the new Nazi authorities oversaw the harassment of Viennese Jews, the looting of their homes, and their on-going deportation and murder. Between 1938 (after the Anschluss) and the end of the Second World War in 1945, Vienna lost its status as a capital to Berlin, because Austria ceased to exist and became part of Nazi Germany. During the November pogroms on 9th November 1938, 92 synagogues in Vienna were destroyed. Only the city temple in the 1st district was spared, as the data of all Jews in Vienna were collected in the adjacent archives. Adolf Eichmann held office in the expropriated Palais Rothschild and organised the expropriation and persecution of the Jews. Of the almost 200,000 Jews in Vienna, around 120,000 were driven to emigrate and around 65,000 were killed. After the end of the war, the Jewish population of Vienna was only about 5,000. Vienna was also the center of the important resistance group around Heinrich Maier, which provided the Allies with plans for V-1, V-2 rockets, Peenemünde, Tiger tanks, Messerschmitt Bf 109, Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet and other aircraft. The information was important to Operation Crossbow and Operation Hydra, both preliminary missions for Operation Overlord. In addition, factory locations for war-essential products were communicated as targets for the Allied Air Force. The group was exposed and most of its members were executed after months of torture by the Gestapo in Vienna. The group around the later executed Karl Burian even tried to blow up the Gestapo headquarters in the Hotel Metropole. On 2nd April 1945, the Soviet Red Army launched the Vienna Offensive against the Germans holding the city and besieged it. British and American air-raids, as well as artillery duels between the Red Army and the SS and Wehrmacht, crippled infrastructure, such as tram services and water- and power-distribution, and destroyed or damaged thousands of public and private buildings. The Red Army was helped by an Austrian resistance group in the German Wehrmacht. The group tried under the code name Radetzky to prevent the destruction and fighting in the city. Vienna fell eleven days later. At the end of the war, Austria again became separated from Germany, and Vienna regained its status as the capital city of the Republic of Austria, but the Soviet hold on the city remained until 1955, when Austria regained full sovereignty. Source: Wikipedia Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page
Mi.73-74 (25.08.1941) B&M Antonín Dvorák 02.09.1941 Mi.73-74 Dvorak reverse.jpeg 02.09.1941 Mi.73-74 Dvorak reverse.jpeg 1/1 CTO cover sent from stamp dealer Paul Kuhrt in Prague (featuring one of his 'Viktoria!' cachets). Featuring stamp sequences W Zd 20 (Zf+Mi.73) and W Zd 21 (Mi.74+Zf) from the Bohemia and Moravia Antonín Dvorák issue. Ref: 02.09.1941 - 8/50 Mi.73-74 100th Birthday of Antonín Dvorák W Zd 20 (Zf + Mi.73) Ref: 02.09.1941 - 8/50 W Zd 21 (Mi.74 + Zf) Ref: 02.09.1941 - 08/50 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page
12.08.1941 Incorrect FPN 12.08.1941 Feldpost Zuruck Wrong FPN reverse.jpeg 12.08.1941 Feldpost Zuruck Wrong FPN letter (part).jpeg 12.08.1941 Feldpost Zuruck Wrong FPN reverse.jpeg 1/2 Example of feldpost being returned due to incorrect FPN. The hand-stamped label states that the envelope should be returned to L 26004 as the unit L 38424 does not match. It appears that the new FPN L 34824 has then been written in red crayon. Ref: 12.08.1941 - 14/15, MFP p.100 onwards. Further examples of returned correspondence due to incorrect FPN 'Nicht 45909 - zurück an Absender'. Ref: 16.10.1944, MFP p.100 onwards. Contact Brief History to inform us of additonal information regarding this page
Mi.781 - 798 (01.08.1941) Definitive: Adolf Hitler 23.07.1942 Kolonien reverse.jpeg 23.07.1942 Kolonien reverse.jpeg 1/1 Commercial cover sent from the Capitol Cinema in Heidelberg to the Deutsche Filmvertriebes Gesellschaft (German Film Distribution Company). Featuring a propaganda vignette to the reverse stating 'Großdeutschland Deine Kolonien!' (Greater Germany Your Colonies!). With printing error (?) on the 6pf stamp Mi.785. Ref: 23.07.1942 next stamp issue Mi.781 (1 Pf). Ref: 17.10.1941 Mi.782 (3 Pf). Ref: 19.11.1941 Mi.783 (4 Pf). Ref: 26.03.1942 Mi.784 (5 Pf). Ref: 29.12.1941 Mi.785 (6 Pf). Ref: 06.09.41 6 Pf variations Plate error? Ref: 23.07.1942 Mi.786 (8 Pf). Ref: 05.01.1942 Mi.787 (10Pf).Ref: 05.09.1941) Mi.788 Engraved (12 Pf). Ref: 05.11.1941 Mi.827 Letterpress (12 Pf - Dec. 1942). Ref: 07.03.1943 Mi.789 (15 Pf). Ref: 18.09.1941 Mi.790 (16 Pf). Ref: 28.05.1942 - 9/58 Mi.791 (20 Pf). Ref: 18.09.1941 Mi.792 (24 Pf). Ref: 22.05.1943 Mi.793 (25 Pf). Ref: 13.06.1942 Mi.794 (30 Pf). Ref: 17.10.1942 Mi.795 (40 Pf). Ref: 02.12.1942 Mi.796 (50 Pf). Ref: 23.11.1943 Mi.797 (60 Pf). Ref: 07.09.1942 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page