Wehrmacht Formations Kriegsmarine Wehrmacht Formations Kriegsmarine Kriegsmarine formations Wehrmacht - Kriegsmarine formations (as found on covers and postcards etc., within the Brief History collection) Also see 'Sea Defence Zones' Without FPN 2/ 2.E.M.A.A., Naval artillery replacement battalion, Zeven (11.1941) Kommando Troßschiffverband Nord With FPN 00522 (01.1940) 01900 Minelayer Cobra (02.1942 - 32/59) 04203 Sperrschulflotte Kdo. (no date - 1940?) - see 34/86 05521 Diether v. Roeder (Z17) - see 19/7 07808 1st Minesweeper Flotilla, Bay of Danzig (10.1939) - see 34/76 09200 Arkona floating anti-aircraft vessel (02.1941) 10345 (11.1940 - 30/85) 12955 17. Lehrflotte. Kdo (02.1942 - 19/9) 17209 Admiral Hipper (02.1941 - 33/92, including handwritten letter) 20154 (07.1943) 21837 (12.1939) 22405 (04.1944) 24932 führer d.U-Boote (12.1939) - see 34/82 33088 (02.1942) 34954 (06.40 - 23/91) 38021 Versorgungsschiff Brake (04.1942 - 19/10) 38849 (07.1943) 41876 (06.1943) 42903 Zestörer Z27 (04.1941) - see 36/27 50893 2.U-jagd-Flott. Kdo. (08.1944) - see 34/87 Offices Wehrmeldamt (Draft Board/Military Registration Office), Kiel - see 32/67 II. Admiral der Ostsee (Schiffsstammdivision), Kiel - see 18/56 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

NSDAP Organisations of the Nazi Party NSDAP Organisations of the Nazi Party NSDAP Organisations Directory of organisations within the Nazi Party (NSDAP) AO Auslands-Organisation Foreign/overseas Organisation Rückwandererheim 28.08.1939 BDT Bund Deutscher Technik League of German Technology See 04.05.1942 - 32/46 DAF Deutsche Arbeitsfront German Labour Front Schulungsheim der DAF (Training centre), Bielatal 14.07.1938 - 28/22 DAF in Teichstatt, Sudetenland 16.07.1943 - 23/37 DAF hand-stamp to reverse of feldpost letter-sheet 19.12.1940 - 32/6 DAF? Series of postcards produced by Engelhard-Reyher Verlag, Gotha - see 32/40 (Woman working with a coal container) Werkschar - see 34/4 DAF official postcard Landshut Gau Bayerische Ostmark - see 21.06.1935 DAF - Kreiswaltung/Kreisleitung (District Administration) DAF - Zahlungsbestätigung (Payment confirmation postcard) DFW Deutsche Frauenwerk German Women's Organisation Official envelope sent to a 'Kreisabteilungsleiterin'. With further information regarding the DFW. (Ref: 12.07. 1938 - 15/84) NS-Frauenkalender 1940 (postcard) NSDFBSt Nationalsozialistischer Deutscher Frontkämpfer-Bund (Stahlhelm) National Socialist German Combatants' Federation (Stahlhelm) Membership card 1933 with 'dissolution' notice of 7th November 1935 (Ref: 02.04. 1933 - Fleurs & Papillons) NSF Nationalsozialistisches Frauenschaft National Socialist Women's League See 10.05.1941 - 25/91 (Bochmann) NSFK Nationalsozialistisches Fliegerkorps 'Lernt Fliegen' postcard issued by the HSFK - see 32/82 NSKK Nationalsozialistisches Kraftfahrkorps National Socialist Motor Corps Primary page about organisation here (requires item) Envelope and reminder of Christmas feldpost parcel despatch. Motorsturm 1/M71, Köln (Ref: 31.12. 1942 ) NSKOV Nationalsozialistische Kriegsopferversorgung National Socialist War Victims Provision Erholungsheim: Zakopane NSLB Nationalsozialistischer Lehrerbund National Socialist Teachers League NSLB Reichsstagung, Frankfurt 1934 Exchange Camp and Young Educators - March of the NS- Teachers Association 1938 (Ref: 30.07. 1938 - 3/35) NS-Lehrerbund Kreiswaltung Freudenstadt 1942 (envelope stationery) - see 32/88 NSLB - Inspekteur für KLV - see 33/9 NSV Nationalsozialistische Volkswohlfahrt National Socialist People's Welfare 'Become a member!' - Main NSV article Müttererholungsheim Haus, Kolksbruch, Hilden NSV-Gau Düsseldorf - Dues receipt (2 RM) - see 32/89 RAD Reichsarbeitsdienst Reich Labour Service Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

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15th April 1944 'Die bunten Hefte...' 69 15th April 1944 Die bunten Hefte 69 'Die bunten hefte für unsere Soldaten', No.69 (sixth series), 'Das Märchen' by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Sent from the NSDAP office in Koblenz to a Kriegsmarine soldier at Cuxhaven (FPN 22405 L - Marine Flak Artillery Division 214). Ref: 15.04.1944 Link to a list of 'Die bunten Hefte...' publications Das Märchen The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily (German title: Märchen or Das Märchen ) is a fairy tale by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe published in 1795 in Friedrich Schiller's German magazine Die Horen (The Horae). It concludes Goethe's novella rondo Conversations of German Emigrants (1795). Das Märchen is regarded as the founding example of the genre of Kunstmärchen, or artistic fairy tale. The story revolves around the crossing and bridging of a river, which represents the divide between the outer life of the senses and the ideal aspirations of the human being. The tale begins with two will-o'-the-wisps who wake a ferryman and ask to be taken across a river. The ferryman does so, and for payment, they shake gold from themselves into the boat. This alarms the ferryman, for if the gold had gone into the river, it would overflow. He forces the will-o'-the-wisps to agree to pay him three artichokes, three cabbages, and three onions. The ferryman takes the gold up to a high place, and deposits it in a rocky cleft, where it is discovered by a green snake. The snake eats the gold and becomes luminous, allowing him to observe an underground temple where there is an old man with a lamp which can only give light when another light is present. The snake investigates the temple and finds four kings made of metal: one of gold, one silver, one bronze, and one a mixture of all three. The story then switches over to the wife of the old man, who meets a melancholy prince. He has met a beautiful Lily, but his happiness is prevented by the fact that anyone who touches her will die. The snake is able to form a temporary bridge across the river at midday, and in this way, the wife and prince come to Lily's garden, where she is mourning her fate. As twilight falls, the prince succumbs to his desire for the beautiful Lily, rushes towards her, and dies. The green snake encircles the prince, and the old man, his wife, and the will-o'-the-wisps form a procession and cross the river on the back of the snake. Back in the land of the senses, and guided by the old man, Lily is able to bring the prince back to life — albeit in a dream state — by touching both the snake and the prince. The snake sacrifices itself, transforming itself into a pile of precious stones, which are then thrown into the river. The old man then directs them towards the doors of the temple, which are locked. The will-o'-the-wisps help them enter by eating the gold out of the doors. At this point, the temple is magically transported beneath the river, surfacing beneath the ferryman's hut, which transforms into a silver altar. The three kings bestow gifts upon the sleeping prince and restore him. The fourth, mixed king collapses as the will-o'-the-wisps lick the veins of gold out of him. We also find that Lily's touch no longer brings death. Thus, the prince is united with the beautiful Lily, and they are married. When they look out from the temple, they see a permanent bridge which spans the river — the result of the snake's sacrifice — 'and to the present hour the Bridge is swarming with travellers, and the Temple is the most frequented on the whole Earth'. It has been claimed that Das Märchen was born out of Goethe's reading of The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz and that it is full of esoteric symbolism. In 1786, Goethe observed that The Chymical Wedding contains 'a pretty fairy story' for which he had no time at the moment. Rudolf Steiner, in his 1918 book Goethe's Standard of the Soul , speaks of it as follows: 'On the river stands the Temple in which the marriage of the Young Man with the Lily takes place. The ‘marriage’ with the supersensible, the realisation of the free personality, is possible in a human soul whose forces have been brought into a state of regularity that in comparison with the usual state is a transformation.' This article led to an invitation to speak to the German Theosophical Society which eventually led to Steiner becoming its General Secretary. Tom Raines gives the following historical background for 'The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily' : This Fairy Tale was written by Goethe as a response to a work of Schiller’s entitled Über die aesthetische Erziehung des Menschen (Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man). One of the main thoughts considered in these ‘letters’ centred around the question of human freedom... Schiller saw that a harmonious social life could only be founded on the basis of free human personalities. He saw that there was an 'ideal human being' within everyone and the challenge was to bring the outer life experiences into harmony with this 'ideal'. Then the human being would lead a truly worthy existence. Schiller was trying to build an inner bridge between the Person in the immediate reality and the 'ideal human being'. He wrote these ‘Letters’ during the time and context of the French Revolution. This revolution was driven by a desire for outer social changes to enable human personalities to become free. But both Schiller and Goethe recognised that freedom cannot be ‘imposed’ from the outside but must arise from within each person. Whilst he had an artistic nature, Schiller was more at home in the realm of philosophic thoughts and although Goethe found much pleasure in these ‘Letters’ of Schiller, he felt that the approach concerning the forces in the soul was too simply stated and, it should be said, working in abstract ideas was not Goethe's way. So he set about writing a Fairy Tale that would show, in imaginative pictures, the way in which a human soul could become whole and free, thereby giving rise to a new and free human community. And this was published in Die Horen in 1795. Source: Wikipedia Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

14th April 1944 Stalag XI-A 14th April 1944 Stalag XIA Altengrabow POW postcard sent from Stalag XI-A at Altengrabow to an address in Italy. With manuscript 'ARB. KDO 358/8' (Arbeitskommando = Work detail). At the time of writing XIA had a population of over 62,000 inmates, with nearly 51,000 assigned to work details. Ref: 14.04.1944 Also see 05.12.1940 - 30/97, 20.12.1940 - 32/6, 29.01.1943 - 19/74 Stalag XI-A Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

1st June 1944 1st June 1944 Aschaffenburg Mi.879 Cover sent from Aschaffenburg to Frankfurt featuring stamp Mi.879 and special cancellation. Ref: 01.06.1944, JB: Aschaffenburg11/46

1st May 1944 Cartolina Postale 1st May 1944 Non riferite mai CARTOLINA POSTALE PER LE FORZE ARMATE. Highly authorised postcard sent from a soldier in the 1st Battalion, 503rd regiment, featuring various hand-stamps including, 'IL CAPO CENTRO DOCUMENTAIO (accompanied by a signature hand-stamp), 'Il Comandante della Compagni (Ten. Cuminetti Giacomo)', with manuscript signature beneath, and also a censor stamp to the correspondence. The left side panel gives warning to 'careless talk'. Ref: 01.05.1944 'Non riferite mai, a voce o per iscritto, notizie che riguardano il vostro servicio. Tacete con tutti; anche con i vostri cari!' (Never report, either verbally or in writing, news concerning your service. Keep silent with everyone; even with your loved ones!) More research required regarding the 503rd Regiment Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

23rd May 1944 23rd May 1944 Fellbach Mi.874 Mi.877 Mi.885 Registered cover sent from Fallbach to Bad Cannstatt. Featuring stamps Mi.874 (4 Pf), Mi.877 (8 Pf), and Mi.885 (30 Pf). Cancellation = JB: Fellbach2/271 (used between 1943 - 1953). Ref: 23.05.1944

Mi.873 - 885 (11.03.1944) Wehrmacht Day Mi.873 - 885 (11.03.1944) Wehrmacht Day Mi.873-885 Registered cover sent from Bergisch-Neukirchen to an address in Schongau, featuring three stamps from the Wehrmacht Day; Heroes Remembrance Day issue. Ref: 19.12.1944 - 19/125 Mi.874 - Tracked Motorcycle. Ref: 23.05.1944 Mi.877 - Waffen-SS Mortar Soldiers. Ref: 23.05.1944 Mi.878 - Searchlight. Ref: 19.12.1944 - 19/125 Mi.879 - Machine Gunners. Ref: 01.06.1944 Mi.880 - Panzer III. Ref: 08.09.1944 Mi.882 - Arado Ar 196. Ref: 19.12.1944 - 19/125 Mi.883 - Railroad Artillery. Ref: 19.12.1944 - 19/125 Mi.885 - Alpine Soldier. Ref: 23.05.1944 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

25th September 1944 Fort Meade 25th September 1944 Fort Meade POW letter-sheet sent from Fort Meade, Maryland, USA to an address in Italy. Featuring various postal and censor stamps. Imprint 'W.D.,P.M.G Form No.4/ June 11, 1943/ 16-88458-2/ (star) U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1943'. Ref: 25.09.1944 (date written). POW CAMP FORT MEADE Contact Brief History to inform us of additonal information regarding this page