4th August 1941 Brüsseler Maschinenstempel 4th August 1941 Brüsseler Maschinenstempel 1/0 Feldpost cover sent from FPN L 51289 to Hamburg. Featuring Brussels machine cancellation Type 24 (MFP24/51). Ref: 04.08.1944 Brüsseler Maschinenstempel In the period 1940-1944, a reworked machine cancellation with 'FELDPOST' stamp head was used in Brussels. Michel designates these as Type 1 to Type 24. MFP p.50-51 Type 2 used 03.01.1941 - 13.02.1941 - see 32/27 Type 24 used 29.07.44 - 31.08.44 (Brussels liberated by the Allies on 3rd September 1944). Ref: 04.08.1944 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

13th November 1944 Lottery - Prague 13th November 1944 Lottery - Prague 13.11.1944 Mi.96 reverse.jpeg 13.11.1944 Mi.96 reverse.jpeg 1/1 Cover sent from Prague to Mělník, a short distance north. The contents of the envelope being two small pieces of advertising for the lottery. Cover features B&M definitive Mi.96 (1.2 K). ref: 13.01.1944 Contents of envelope MORE RESEARCH REQUIRED Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

28th July 1944 Graf von der Schulenburg 28th July 1944 Graf von der Schulenburg 1/1 Cover sent to the German Consulate in Lisbon (Consul Hollberg) from a person named 'Huth' (?) at the office of Ambassador Graf v. d. Schulenburg. Featuring various stamps from the German Reich Post (III) issue (Mi.888-893). Ref: 28.07.1944 Notes Schulenburg arrested on 21st July This correspondence posted 28th July from Schulenburg's office (?) in Falkenberg seven days after his arrest. How much did the public know. How much did official know? More research required. Graf von der Schulenburg Friedrich-Werner Erdmann Matthias Johann Bernhard Erich Graf von der Schulenburg (1875-1944) was a German diplomat who served as the last German ambassador to the Soviet Union before Operation Barbarossa, the German attack on the Soviet Union in 1941, during World War II. He began his diplomatic career before World War I, serving as consul and ambassador in several countries. After a prolonged conflict with the Nazi regime, he turned against the main Nazi Party and joined the conspiracy against Adolf Hitler. After the failed 20th July plot in 1944 to assassinate Hitler, Schulenburg was accused of being a co-conspirator and five months later executed. He was a Knight of Justice of the Order of St John, which was regarded with disfavour by the Nazis. In the 1930s, Schulenburg acquired the Burg Falkenberg , a castle in the Upper Palatinate. He had it converted and renovated to serve as a home for his retirement. This monumental work was undertaken between 1936 and 1939. After the First World War, Schulenburg got his diplomatic career going again, becoming, among other things, an envoy to Tehran and Bucharest. In 1934, he was appointed German ambassador to the Soviet Union. Schulenburg favoured an agreement between Germany and the Soviet Union, and was instrumental in bringing about the German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact of August 1939. After the Soviet invasion of Poland, despite the state of war between Germany and Poland, he used his position as the most senior ambassador in Moscow to allow Polish diplomats (including ambassador Wacław Grzybowski) to leave the Soviet Union, when the Soviets tried to arrest them. Schulenburg was kept in the dark about Germany's planned invasion of the Soviet Union. He knew for certain that the invasion would take place only a few hours before it was launched, when Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop cabled him a message to read to Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov justifying the invasion. He, however, got suspicions of what his government was planning to do in the spring of 1941. To the last, he tried to thwart any talk of invasion by such means as hinting at the Soviet Union's military strength and the unassailability of its industrial reserves. He is quoted as having said to Molotov on the morning of the attack: 'For the last six years I've personally tried to do everything I could to encourage friendship between the Soviet Union and Germany. But you can't stand in the way of destiny.' A few weeks before the invasion, Schulenburg tried to warn the Soviet Ambassador to Germany Vladimir Dekanozov of his suspicions, but Dekanozov dismissed the evidence of military preparations as false British propaganda. After the German invasion began on 22nd June 1941, Schulenburg was interned by the Soviets for a few weeks and was transferred to the Soviet-Turkish border for repatriation. Thereafter, Schulenburg was assigned as leader of the Russia Committee, a Foreign Office post with no political influence, to neutralise him. He later joined the conspiracy to overthrow Hitler in the hope of reaching a quick peace agreement in the east. He was ready and willing to negotiate even with Joseph Stalin on behalf of the plotters. Had they been successful in overthrowing Hitler, Schulenburg would have been a high-ranking official in the Foreign Office; some sources had him listed as foreign minister. After the failure of the attempt on Hitler's life on 20th July 1944, Schulenburg was arrested and charged with high treason. On 23rd October 1944, the Volksgerichtshof ('People's Court') sentenced him to death, and he was hanged on 10th November 1944 at Plötzensee Prison in Berlin. Source: Wikipedia Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

16th September 1944 'RIGA' Feldpost cancels 16th September 1944 'RIGA' Feldpost cancels 16.09.1944 Riga cancel reverse.jpeg 16.09.1944 Riga cancel reverse.jpeg 1/1 Feldpost cover sent from FPN 34334 (Kraftwagen-Werkstatt-Kompanie 132) in Riga to an address in Dirmstein. Featuring 'RIGA' mute cancellation (Ref: MFP66/85). Ref: 16.09.1944 'RIGA' FELDPOST CANCELLATIONS MFP64b/84 - 'A' in 'RIGA' partly visible - 7 wavy lines. Ref: 10.11.1942 MFP66/85 - 'RIGA' open space - 7 wavy lines. Ref: 16.09.1944 MFP66/85 - 'RIGA' open space 7 wavy lines. Ref: 14.09.1944 Contact Brief History to inform us of additonal information regarding this page

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31st October 1944 Feldpost 'i' designation 31st October 1944 Feldpost 'i' designation 31.10.1944 Feldpost i designation reverse.jpeg 31.10.1944 Feldpost i designation reverse.jpeg 1/1 Feldpost cover sent from FPN 64075 (Ortskommandantur (II) 336) to a publisher in Berlin. Featuring a feldpost date stamp with 'i' designation letter. Ref: 31.10.1944 'FELDPOST ' designation letters: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o , a1etc. , Aa etc. , Misc. Variations of the 'i' designation letter MFP9P45. Ref: 31.10.1944 Looks like an 'l' but upon closer inspection most likely a smudged 'i'? Detail below. Ref: 13.01.1942 FALSE. Most likely a broken 'l'. 3mm tall. Ref: 04.12.1944 - 10/19 DETAIL. Angles of broken 'l' appear to be parallel. Ref: 04.12.1944 - 10/19 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Stamps of India Stamps of India 1/1 POW mail sent by an Italian lieutenant from Camp 27 (located at Yol in northern India in the foothills of the Himalayas, not far from Tibet) to an address in Trieste. Ref: 13.07.1944 India - Stamps within the Brief History collection Mi.176 - King George VI Definitive (issued 15.05.1941). Ref: 13.07.1944

Mi.865 (29.01.1944) Mi.865 (29.01.1944) 1/1 Self addressed commercial cover to 'Hoflikörfabrik Hans Hertrich' in Hof. Featuring Mi.865. RefL 07.02.1944 next 3rd Reich stamp issue Mi.865. Fef: 07.02.1944

7th April 1944 Stalag IV-B 7th April 1944 Stalag IV-B 07.04.1944 Stalag IV-B reverse.jpeg 07.04.1944 Stalag IV-B reverse.jpeg 1/1 POW kriegsgefangenenpost postcard sent from Stalag IV-B to an address in Serbia. The message reads, 'Dearest sister and in-laws. Greetings from the upper migrant camp. We are not mistreated, we have food, I do not know what is to happen to us, I hope we will know soon. Christ is Risen...' Ref: 07.04.1944 Stalag IV-B Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

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3rd May 1944 Ernst Vollbehr 3rd May 1944 Ernst Vollbehr 1/1 Art postcard in the series 'Kriegsbild Dokumente von Ernst Vollbehr (1876-1960) . Nordfront. Bild 9'. The caption to the reverse reads, 'The sea strait of Kairalla, famous for the summer battles of 1941. (Kandalacha front). Scene of the German-Finnish attack on the railway and road bridge (early 1942).' Ref: 03.05.1944 Ernst Vollbehr Ernst Vollbehr (1876 - 1960) was a German travel writer, painter and illustrator who glorified colonialism, war and National Socialism in his works . Vollbehr was a son of the Kiel merchant Emil Jakob Heinrich Vollbehr (1837 - 1913) and his wife Caroline Elisabeth, née Beckmann (1846 - 1927). His seven siblings included the chemist and antiquarian Otto Vollbehr. The art historian and Magdeburg museum director Theodor Volbehr was his cousin. Bild 6, from the series, 'Kriegsbild-Dokumente von Ernst Vollbehr. Nordfront.' The caption to the reverse reads, 'View of the Norway-Finland border bridge built by our mountain troops. In the foreground, destroyed Lapp houses from the 1940 winter campaign.' Ref: 08.05.1944 (located at 03.05.1944) In 1892, Vollbehr began an apprenticeship as a decorative painter at the Schwerin Court Theater. From 1897, he studied art in Berlin, Dresden, Paris and Rome. Around 1900, his artistic style was close to Art Nouveau. As a participant in expeditions to Albania (1904) and Brazil (1907), he discovered travel painting for himself. Between 1909 and 1914, he traveled to the four German-African colonies with artistic intentions. Bild 19, from the series, 'Kriegsbild-Dokumente von Ernst Vollbehr. Nordfront.' The caption to the reverse reads, 'Bright red and yellow autumn colours in the tundra. Moors, pines and alders with colourful shrubs, mountains in the background that have been cut off by ancient glaciers, hiding places for Bolshevik gangs.' Ref: 22.04.1944 (located at 03.05.1944) During the First World War, Vollbehr worked as a war painter at the front. In addition to terrestrial and aerial panoramas of the battlefield, he created hundreds of paintings and drawings. Vollbehr became known through landscape and war paintings, with which he also took part in the Great German Art Exhibition. After 1933, Vollbehr painted pictures of the Nazi Party Rallies and the Olympic facilities in Berlin on state commission. Fritz Todt commissioned him to create numerous paintings of the construction of the Reichsautobahn. Vollbehr became one of the most popular artists in Germany, whose works were shown in the special exhibition 1, 1934, conceived under Hermann Lorey, with the theme: 'Vosges Front. Memorial Exhibition 1914–1934. With war pictures by Ernst Vollbehr' in the Zeughaus (Berlin). Adolf Hitler's high regard for Vollbehr's work was expressed, among other things, in the purchase of his war paintings by the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP). His admission to the NSDAP, despite a ban on admission at the time, was personally approved by Hitler in July 1933. Bild 25, from the series, 'Kriegsbild-Dokumente von Ernst Vollbehr. Nordfront.' The caption to the reverse reads, 'The mighty waters of the Bardufoss near a power station. The waterfall cascades down into the valley in two tiers, with huge numbers of fish in the rapids.' Ref: 25.05.1944 (located at 03.05.1944) Vollbehr took part in the invasion of Poland in 1939. He showed pictures of this in Berlin in 1940 in the exhibition Polish Campaign in Pictures and Portraits. In 1941 he received the Goethe Medal for Art and Science. In 1944 Vollbehr was on the list of those blessed by God of the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda. Further information here. Bild 36, from the series, 'Kriegsbild-Dokumente von Ernst Vollbehr. Nordfront.' The caption to the reverse reads, 'View of the Rombakstötta and ‘Sleeping Queen’ from the Fjellden Pass. In the distance Narvik, in front of us Bjervik, where the French were defeated 5 times.' Ref: No date (located at 03.05.1944) In the Soviet occupation zone, Vollbehr's writings The Face of the Western Front (1932), The Streets of Adolf Hitler, Built in 1933/34 (1935), Work Battle: 5 Years of Painting Trips to the Construction Sites of the 'Streets of Adolf Hitler' (1939) and With the OT at the West Wall and Advance (1941) were put on the list of literature to be discarded. In the German Democratic Republic, this list was followed by Colorful, Shining World (1935). Bild 46, from the series, 'Kriegsbild-Dokumente von Ernst Vollbehr. Nordfront.' The caption to the reverse reads, 'The burnt fjord town of ‘Namsos’, famous for the English ‘victorious’ retreat.' Ref: 25.05.1944 (located at 03.05.1944) In 1957, the German Museum of Regional Studies in Leipzig, under the director Edgar Lehmann, bought around 900 paintings by Vollbehr, mostly landscape and ethnographic paintings. Almost 400 of the works come from Vollbehr's travels through the German-African colonies; war paintings and propaganda commissioned works were not purchased. A scientific estate of Vollbehr, including around 800 paintings and travel diaries, is located in the Geography Archive of the Leibniz Institute of Regional Studies in Leipzig. Source: Wikipedia Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

21st February 1944 'Zurück, Empfänger gefallen...' 21st February 1944 'Zurück, Empfänger gefallen...' 21.02.1944 Zuruck Gefallen reverse.jpeg 21.02.1944 Zuruck Gefallen reverse.jpeg 1/1 Letter-sheet sent via feldpost to an unknown (obliterated) FPN address. Subsequently returned to Nuremberg with the hand-stamp stating, 'Zurück, Empfänger gefallen für Großdeutschland' (Return, recipient fallen for Greater Germany). Ref: 21.02.1944, MFP99/101 'Gefallen' returned mail Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page