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20th October 1941 Brazil/Censor/SA Straße 20.10.1941 Brazil censor reverse.jpeg 20.10.1941 Brazil censor reverse.jpeg 1/1 Cover sent from Brazil to 'SA Strasse' in Neuenhagen, Berlin. Featuring varios German censors and a Brazilian postage stamp (Mi.552). Ref: 20.10.1941 - 15/72 (reference/date is first day of Mi.552 issue. Used due to lack of date clarity on the franking). Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page
18th August 1941 St.Moritz Hotel 18.08.1941 St. Moritz Hotel censor reverse.jpeg 18.08.1941 St. Moritz Hotel censor reverse.jpeg 1/1 Hotel stationery for the 'St.Moritz on-the-park', New York. Sent to an address in Berlin. Featuring various censors. With return address at the Hotel Bolivar. Note the 'Dead Letter Office' announcement printed on the envelope flap. Ref: 18.08.1941 St.Moritz on-the-park The Hotel St. Moritz was built on the site of the old New York Athletic Club. The hotel was designed and built in 1930 by the Hungarian-born architect Emery Roth, and constructed by the Harper Organization, representing Harris Uris and Percy Uris. The estimated cost was about $6 million. In 1932, the Bowery Savings Bank took over the hotel and then sold it to the Engadine Corporation, led by the Greek-American hotel magnate S. Gregory Taylor (1888–1948). In 1950, the hotel was completely redecorated and redesigned, and, from the following year on, it housed the Café de la Paix, said to be the first sidewalk restaurant in New York City. Source: Wikipedia Link to interesting blog that is set in the Hotel Bolivar Dead Letter Office A dead letter office (DLO) is a facility within a postal system where undeliverable mail is processed. Mail is considered to be undeliverable when the address is invalid so it cannot be delivered to the addressee, and there is no return address so it cannot be returned to the sender. At a DLO, mail is usually opened to try to find an address to forward to. If an address is found, the envelope is usually sealed using tape or postal seals, or enclosed in plastic bags and delivered. If the letter or parcel is still undeliverable, valuable items are then auctioned off while the correspondence is usually destroyed. Despite this practice, in the past some undeliverable envelopes were acquired by philatelists. Dead letter offices go by different names in different countries. In many English-speaking countries they are called returned letter offices. The U.S. Post Office, as it was known then, started a dead letter office in 1825 to deal with undeliverable mail. By 1893, it handled about 20,000 items every day. In 2006, approximately 90 million undeliverable-as-addressed (UAA) items ended up in the dead-letter office of the U.S. Postal Service; when the rightful owners cannot be identified, the correspondence is destroyed to protect customer privacy, and enclosed items of value are removed. Source: Wikipedia Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page
25th April 1941 Otto Meissner 'Signature' 1/1 Original award document stating, The Führer and Chancellor of the Reich has issued the following decree today Retired Tax Inspector Reinhold Koebke Mainz-Gonsenheim in recognition of 25 years of loyal service the Silver Badge of Honour for Loyal Service Berlin, 25 April 1941 The Minister of State and Chief of the Presidential Chancellery of the Führer and Reich Chancellor. (Ref: 25.04.1941 - 11/20) This is an original 3rd Reich document from 1941. It does, however, contain the facsimile signature of Otto Meissner. Beware. These are very realistic and can be difficult to authenticate. So look for how even the ink nib pressure is on the paper. It shouldn't be the same from start to finish. If there is a cross-over (e.g. the cross bar on a 't' etc.), then this intersection will be darker. Also, compare with other signatures from that person on the internet. The image below is an example from an auction site. The signatures are the same. A copy like the one is approximately €40.
16th June 1941 Neugersdorf 16.06.1941 Neugersdorf reverse.jpeg 16.06.1941 Neugersdorf reverse.jpeg 1/1 Postcard depicting a view of Neugersdorf (looking down Hauptstrasse). Ref: 16.06.1941 Neugersdorf From Wikipedia: Neugersdorf is a town in the district Görlitz, in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the border with the Czech Republic, 4 km south of Ebersbach, and 17 km northwest of Zittau. Since 1st January 2011, it has been a part of the Ebersbach-Neugersdorf municipality for administrative purposes. It has many wooded areas and country trails. Born in Neugersdorf: Margot Dreschel (1908–1945), Nazi concentration camp guard executed for war crimes. Margot Elisabeth Dreschel, also spelled Drechsler, or Drexler (17th May 1908 – May/June 1945), was a prison guard at Nazi concentration camps during World War II . For her role in the Holocaust , she was sentenced to death and hanged. Before her enlistment as an SS auxiliary, she worked at an office in Berlin . On 31st January 1941, Dreschel arrived at Ravensbrück concentration camp to receive guard training. At first she was an Aufseherin , a lower-ranking female guard at Ravensbrück camp in charge of interned women. She trained under Oberaufseherin (Senior Overseer) Johanna Langefeld in 1941, and quickly became an SS-Rapportführerin (Report Overseer), a higher-ranked guard. On 27th April 1942, Dreschel was selected for transfer to the newly opened Auschwitz II – Birkenau concentration camp in occupied Poland . Dreschel began her duties at Birkenau in August 1942 as soon as the women's camp was established there, with women transferred from Auschwitz to Birkenau during expansion. She served under Maria Mandel and worked as an associate of Dr Mengele . Dreschel was head of all camp offices in Auschwitz. Her appearance was reportedly repellent, as one female Auschwitz prisoner recounted: 'camp leader Dreschel was there, her buck teeth sticking out, even when her mouth is closed.' Inmates described her as vulgar, thin and ugly. After the war, many survivors testified of her notoriously brutal beatings. She carried out indoor selections wearing a white coat and white gloves, disguised as a doctor. 'Once Mrs Drechaler [Dreschler] came, with her huge bloodhound, undressed everybody, took away even our shoes, and we had to stand for hours completely naked, none of us were thinking of life any more, the gas chamber seemed unavoidable.' — War Crimes Trials. Protocol 3309 , SS Female Overseers in Auschwitz. Dreschel regularly moved between the Auschwitz I camp and Birkenau , and involved herself in selections of women and children to be either exploited as slave labor, or murdered in the gas chambers . On 1st November 1944, she went to Flossenbürg concentration camp as an Oberaufseherin and as a trainer of enlisted overseers. In January 1945, she was moved back to the Ravensbrück subcamp at Neustadt-Glewe . Dreschel fled from Ravensbrück in April 1945 as Nazi Germany surrendered. In May 1945, several former Auschwitz prisoners recognised her on a road from Pirna to Bautzen in the Soviet zone, and took her to the Soviet Military Police. The Soviets condemned her to death and executed her in May or June 1945 by hanging in Bautzen . Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page
14th December 1941 MHB 71 1/1 Cover sent from Insterburg (East Prussia, now Russia) to an address in The Hague. Featuring early use of a stamp sequence from MHB 71. Ref: 14.12.1941 Stamps sequences from booklet sheet MHB 71 Stamp sequences from MHB 70 and MHB 71 are identical except for the use of label A13 ( 'Spare bei...' + 6 Pf - MHB 70) or A14 ('Glückwünsche...' + 6 Pf - MHB 71). Identical sequences: KZ39 (4+Z+Z+6), KZ40 (8+Z+Z+6), S278 (4+8), W151 (A13+4), W152 (A16+4), W153 (A16+4+8). Stamp sequence from MHB 71. Ref: 14.12.1941 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page
Mi.1-12 (01.01.1941) B&M Service Stamps 1/1 Official cover sent from the 'Politische Expositur in Neu-Benatek' to the representative of the local transport authority in Prague. Featuring Bohemia and Moravia 60 H and 3 K Service Stamps (Mi.4 & Mi.10). Ref: 28.06.1941 - 1/84. It is noted that the term 'Politische Expositur' appears to emanate from the 19th century Austrian Empire, being a political branch of a district authority that carries out the tasks of the district authority for a part of the respective political district. A political branch differs from a simple branch in that the branch carries out (almost) all of the official business of the district authority itself and thus acts similarly to an independent authority. In this case the work of the German government in Nue-Benatek. Source: Wikipedia Mi.1 - 12 Bohemia and Moravia: Service Stamps Mi.2 (Service Stamp). Ref: 10/46 Mi.4 (Service Stamp). Ref: 28.06.1941 - 1/84 Mi.7 (Service Stamp). Ref: 9/18 Mi.9 (Service Stamp). Ref: 10/46 MI.10 (Service Stamp). Ref: 28.06.1941 - 1/84 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page
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21st July 1944 Franz Wedral 21st July 1944 Franz Wedral 1/1 Commercial postcard sent from philatelic wholesaler 'Franz Wedral Briefmarkengroßhandlung' in Vienna to a correspondent in Berlin. The message states, ' I am looking for bulk goods of all countries, also kiloware etc., as well as everything from Austria, Bosnia, and former Czechoslovakia. I also have a large stock of bulk goods, sets etc., and could also offer goods in exchange if desired.' Ref: 21.07.1944 Franz Wedral Further research required Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page
