7th July 1943 Stalag 371 Zweiglager Stryj 7th July 1943 Stalag 371 Stalag 371 Zweiglager Stryj See 07.07.1943 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

26th July 1943 Allianz Life Insurance AG. 26th July 1943 Allianz Lebensversicherungs AG See 26.07.1943 - 23/56 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Mi.13-24 (15.02.1943) B&M Service Stamps Mi.13-24 (15.02.1943) B&M Service Stamps Mi.13-24 Bohemia and Moravia Service Stamp Official registered cover sent from the Office of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry in Prague to the 'Siedlungsamt-SS' (Settlement Office) at Schloss Dimokur. Featuring two Bohemia and Moravia Service Stamps (Mi.19 & Mi.20). Ref: 29.06.1944 - 3/18 Mi.13 - 24 Bohemia and Moravia: Service Stamps Notes: Design: Anton Erhardt . Letterpress printing. Sheets 10 x 10. Without watermark. Perf. 14. Quantity issued: unknown. Valid until 31.12.1944 Mi.13 (30 H) Mi.14. Ref: 17/29 Mi.15 (50 H) Mi.16. Ref: 05.10.1944 - 35/45 Mi.17. Ref: 17/29 Mi.18 (1 K) Mi.19. Ref: 29.06.1944 - 3/18 Mi.20. Ref: 29.06.1944 - 3/18 Mi.21 (2 K) Mi.22 (3 K) Mi.23 (4 K) Mi.24 (5 K) Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

23rd June 1943 B&M Mi.K4 II a 23rd June 1943 Mi.K4 II a Bohemia and Moravia Upper portion of Bohemia & Moravia letter-card Mi.K4 IIa (grey-white stationery, linear and colourless perforations, imprint '1 K 30 h'). First issued in 1942. Ref: 23.06.1943 Südwestdeutsche Beamtenbank (Southwest German Civil Service Bank) From Wikipedia: From 1972 until 2005 five independent cooperative banks came under the Badische Beamtenbanks (BBBank) umbrella: the Hessische Beamtenbank ( Darmstadt ), the Südwestdeutsche Beamtenbank ( Frankfurt am Main), the Beamtenbank zu Köln , the Bayerische Beamten Bank and last the Schleswig-Holsteinische Beamtenbank . Since then the BBBank is the only civil servants bank in Germany. The BBBank eG (formerly Badische Beamtenbank ) is a German cooperative bank headquartered in Karlsruhe ( Baden-Württemberg ). It is solely focused on private banking . With total assets of almost 11 billion Euros and over 470,000 members the bank is one of the biggest member banks in Germany . On 12th November 1921 the BBBank was founded as a self-help facility for the public service in Karlsruhe. The Badische Beamten-Genossenschaftsbank eGmbH (Baden cooperative bank for civil servants), as the BBBank was called in those days, began operation on 1st January 1922 with 33 founding members in a small room in the House Nowackanlage 19. Already two years later the building on Waldstraße 1 was purchased, which to this day is part of the head office of the BBBank. With the Nazi seizure of control in January 1933 the civil servants bank had to accept losses in the course of the Gleichschaltung (enforced conformity). The cooperative idea of self-help was majorly cut back and twisted for the new regimes purposes. In April 1933 Gotthold Mayer had to step down from his chairman position. However, in the beginning of 1946 he was able to take back the leadership of the Badischen Beamtenbank and navigate the Institute through the difficult post-war years and the currency reform. Only in 1967 the bank founder retired at the age of 80. At this point the bank had 136,000 members as well as 14 branches and was the biggest credit cooperative in Europe. Gotthold Mayer remained honorary chairman of the bank until his death on 7th February 1970. Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

25th February 1943 25th February 1943 R-Label by feldpost cancel Example of registered feldpost mail with identification number by field post standard hand-stamp (335). Ref:25.02.1943, MFP24/139 Further example of an R-label with identification number from feldpost hand-stamp Contact Brief History to inform us of additonal information regarding this page

Mi.831 - 842 (21.03.1943) Wehrmacht Day (I) Mi.831 - 842 (21.03.1943) Wehrmacht Day (I) Mi.831-842 Registered cover (self addressed?) sent within Halle. Featuring stamps from the Wehmacht Day issue (Mi.832, Mi.836 & Mi.840). Ref: 01.07.1943 - 23/30 Mi.831-842 Wehrmacht Day; Heroes Remembrance Day (I) (also see Mi.873-885 ) Notes: Design: Erich Meerwald . Recess printing (3, 6, 8, 12, 25, 30, & 40 Pf printed at the State Printing Works, Berlin; the 4, 5, 15, 20, & 50 Pf printed at State Printing Works, Vienna). Sheets 5 x 10. Without watermark. Perf. 14. Quantity issued: unknown. Valid until May 1945. The 5+4 Pf (Mi.833) and 15+10 Pf (Mi.837) exist imperforate. Erich Meerwald Erich Meerwald (1895 - 1973) was a German painter, graphic artist, stamp artist and philatelist. From 1939 onwards he designed numerous stamps and other printed matter for the German Reichspost, including the stamps and series Automobile Exhibition 1939, Reichsberufswettbewerb 1939, Helgoland 1940, Postage Stamp Day 1941, Blue Ribbon 1941, Grand Prix of the Reich Capital 1941, Styria series 1941, European Postal Congress 1942, Postage Stamp Day 1943, Wehrmacht Day series 1943, Youth Commitment Day 1943, German Airmail Service 1944, Postage Stamp Day 1944, Volkssturm 1945 and the last stamp issued by the German Reichspost with the motif 'SS man', but also front pages of telegram sheets and the like. After the Second World War, he appeared again on Federal Postal Service stamps with a series of agricultural motifs on the welfare stamps of the Helpers of Humanity series of 1958. Meerwald was equally successful in the field of commercial graphics, for example he designed the poster for the film Ben Hur . However, his design for the first 500-mark note was not accepted. From 1954 to 1961 he was the first chairman of the 'Allgemeiner Postwertzeichen-Sammlerverein e. V.' (APS) in Darmstadt and then honorary chairman. Together with his Belgian wife Alice Mahieu (1890-1973) he formed a recognised philatelic couple with rare exhibition exhibits. In particular, he owned a considerable Belgium collection. In addition, the Meerwald couple played a major role in the twin town partnership between Darmstadt and Troyes in 1958. Source: Wikipedia Mi.831 (3+2 Pf - Type VII-A U-boat). Ref:07.06.1943 Mi.832 (4+3 Pf - Machine gun/Waffen SS soldiers). Ref: 23.03.1943 Mi.833 (5+4 Pf - Motorcycle driver). Ref: 07.06.1943 - 8/73 Mi.834 (6+9 Pf - Signal troops). Ref: 07.06.1943 - 8/73 Mi.835 (8+7 Pf - Engineers). Ref: 07.06.1943 - 8/73 Mi.836 (Attacking infantry). Ref: 01.07.1943 - 23/30 Mi.837 (15+10 Pf - Artillery). Ref: 07.06.1943 - 8/73 Mi.838 (20+14 Pf - Light flak). Ref: 07.06.1943 - 8/73 Mi.839 (25+15 Pf - Junkers Ju 87 Stuka). Ref: 07.06.1943 - 8/73 Mi.840 (30+30 Pf - Paratroopers). Ref: 01.07.1943 - 23/30 Mi.841 (40+40 Pf - Panzer IV tank). Ref: 03.05.1943 Mi.842 (50+50 Pf - Torpedo boat S14-17). Ref: 23.03.1943 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

23rd May 1943 Stalag 383 23rd May 1943 Stalag 383 Stalag 383 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

27th May 1943 Oflag IV-D 27th May 1943 Oflag IV-D Oflag IV-D Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

13th June 1943 Cartolina Postale 13th June 1943 In pubblico e davanti CARTOLINA POSTALE PER LE FORZE ARMATE. Italian propaganda postcard sent from a soldier of Comando truppe Servizi R, P.M.M. Messina, to a recipient in Rome. Featuring the image of an 'all-seeing-eye' above a message for vigilance. Ref: 13.06.1943 'In pubblico e davanti a sconosciuti sorvegliate i vostri discorsi. Non accennate mai a cose di servizio. Il nemico ha informatori dovunque!' (In public and in front of strangers watch your conversation. Never mention service matters. The enemy has informers everywhere!) Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

17th May 1943 Newlands House 17th May 1943 Newlands House Newlands House, Dumfries Hospital for Norwegian soldiers See 17.05.1943 - 25/17 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Mi.830 (26.01.1943) Supplemental/Postmark stamp Mi.830 (26.01.1943) Supplemental/Postmark stamp Mi.830 Commercial cover sent from stamp dealer H.C. Robert in Köln to a correspondent in Preßnitz (no longer inhabited due to the building of a reservoir in the 1970s). The cover features the single use of supplementary postage stamp Mi.830. Ref: 24.02.1943 - 16/89 Also see 7/10 Mi.830 Supplementary stamp Notes on Mi.830: Michel states, 'MiNr. 830 was primarily intended to supplement postage, but could be used also for normal postal purposes.' [As is shown above] Harper & Scheck states, 'This stamp was specially issued for obtaining special postmarks. The design is simple so as not to detract attention from the postmark, and the colour sufficiently light so that it does not overshadow the p/mk. the collector affixed one of these stamps to either an envelope or a card or even a piece of paper, and the postal clerk would oblige by cancelling it with whatever special p/mk was in use at that particular time. The surtax on this stamp represents the fee for this service. The stamp could also be used as normal 3 Pfg. stamp.' Mi.830 (3+2 pf) from February 1943. Only a month from it being issued. Ref: 24.02.1943 - 16/89 Mi.830 (3+2 pf) from April 1944. Over a year from it being issued. Ref: 14.04.1944 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

GG Mi.104 (23.05.1943) Nicolaus Copernicus GG Mi.104 (23.05.1943) Nicolaus Copernicus Mi.104 Copernicus Kopernikus For sheet see Album34 Also see 16.07.1943 - 23/43 for correspondence regarding the sheet (' Can you perhaps provide me with a small sheet of 10 copies of General-Gouv No.106 Kopernikus issued by the post office with marginal lettering in the colour of the stamps? Postal price 10 RM. I will pay for all expenses.') Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page