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24th April 1941 Burgtheater, Vienna 24th April 1941 Burgtheater, Vienna 1/0 Burgtheater, Vienna See 24.04.1941 - 25/81 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

16th December 1943 Luftwaffe Eagle 16th December 1943 Luftwaffe Eagle 16.12.1943 Lutwaffe Eagle cover.jpeg 16.12.1943 Lutwaffe Eagle cover.jpeg 1/1 Feldpost window envelope with illustrated correspondence. Featuring a Luftwaffe eagle label in gold (partly used as a seal). Ref: 16.12.1943 - 15/50 LUFTWAFFE EAGLE LABELS Luftwaffe Eagle adhesive label (in both gold and silver) Measurements: First measurement from wing tip to wing tip (span), second measurement from left swastika tip to right swastika tip. Gold: 48mm/9mm. Ref: 16.12.1943 - 15/50 Also see 21.04.1941 - 25/79 (three types to reverse of envelope) Luftwaffe Eagle adhesive label within a yellow triangle Measurements: Wing tip to wing tip (span) Silver on yellow: 28mm. Ref: 05.06.1940 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

18th March 1941 Stalag IX-C 18th March 1941 Stalag IX-C Screenshot 2021-11-27 at 09.29.50.png Screenshot 2021-11-27 at 09.29.50.png 1/1 Stalag IX-C See 21.04.1941 - 25/78 (postcard sent from soldier) Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

21st April 1941 JB: Bad Sulza 21st April 1941 JB: Bad Sulza 1/0 BAD SULZA cancellation as featured in the Bochmann catalogues (1952) See 21.04.1941 - 25/78 Note: This is the only special cancellation for Bad Sulza during the 3rd Reich period. It was issued from 1935 to 1951. Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

20th April 1941 La Tour Eiffel 20th April 1941 La Tour Eiffel 1/0 The Eiffel Tower See 20.04.1941 - 25/76 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Finanzamt 'doily' seals Finanzamt 'doily' seals 1/0 Also see official court 'doily' seals Finanzamt 'doily' seals See 17.04.1941 - 25/75 (Riesa) Contact Brief History to inform us of additonal information regarding this page

Court Seals Court Seals 1/1 Also see official finanzamt 'doily' seals Court Seals Used in printed and hand-stamped form upon an envelope cover or in a blue or red 'doily' patterned seal, used as a closure. Each displaying the court emblem and district location. 'Doily' label seals WITHOUT swastika Examples of use into the 3rd Reich period 'Doily' label seals WITH swastika Examples of use during the 3rd Reich period Hand-stamped or printed upon documents Examples of use during the 3rd Reich period (with and without swastika) Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

15th April 1941 Franz Schlegelberger 15th April 1941 Franz Schlegelberger Screenshot 2021-11-27 at 09.29.50.png Screenshot 2021-11-27 at 09.29.50.png 1/1 See 15.04.1941- 25/74 (cover addressed to the Reichsminister der Justiz) Franz Schlegelberger Contact Brief History to inform us of additonal information regarding this page

26th May 1942 Eastern Front + Wound Badge 26.05.1942 Eastern Front Medal Ribbon_ Wound Badge reverse.jpeg 26.05.1942 Eastern Front Medal Ribbon_ Wound Badge reverse.jpeg 1/1 Wedding photograph taken of a bride with her soldier husband who appears to hold the ranks of Stabsgefreiter. This rank was first established in 1942 and is equivalent to a Lance corporal. This date ties in with the medal ribbon (black-white-red) above the left breast pocket. It denotes a recipient of the Winter Battle in the East 1941-1942 medal (aka the Eastern Medal), established on 26th May 1942. Also upon the left breast pocket is the Wound Badge (black, 3rd Class). This being awarded to soldiers wounded once or twice during hostile action. Ref: 26.05.1945 Eastern Medal Wound Badge Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

26th May 1942 Oflag V-D Screenshot 2021-11-27 at 09.29.50.png Screenshot 2021-11-27 at 09.29.50.png 1/1 Oflag V-D Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

15th April 1941 Oflag X-B 15th April 1941 Oflag X-B Screenshot 2021-11-27 at 09.29.50.png Screenshot 2021-11-27 at 09.29.50.png 1/1 Oflag X-B Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

7th April 1941 Rudolf Lipus 7th April 1941 Rudolf Lipus 1/1 Feldpost postcard featuring the artwork of Rudolph Lipus (described as a 'Wachtmeister' - In the German army ground forces, the designation of the Feldwebel rank of Cavalry and Artillery was the 'Wachtmeister' until 1945). Taken from 'Soldatenblätter für Freie und Freizeit'. These soldatenblätter contained photos, stories, small removable pictures for decorating your bunker or barracks, games, tips and tricks for different things, postcards, etc. Ref: 07.04.1941 Rudolf Lipus (1893-1961) German painter and graphic artist who was particularly successful during the National Socialist era. From 1908 to 1912 he completed his first apprenticeship at the Leipzig publishing house CG Röder, after which Lipus studied painting and graphics at the Leipzig Academy for Graphic Arts, including with Alois Kolb. During the First World War he worked as a trench illustrator and received a prize from a competition for a war memorial sheet. He completed his studies after the end of the World War, and from then on he worked as a freelance graphic artist, ex-librist and landscape and portrait painter and became a permanent employee of the Leipziger Illustrierte Zeitung . During the Nazi era, Lipus was regularly represented at the annual exhibitions in the Munich House of German Art. With the advent of the Second World War he was initially integrated into a war reporter company as a painter, before being assigned as a war painter to an army propaganda company from 1942 onwards, the 'Fine Artists Squadron' of the Potsdam Propaganda Operations Department, which was directly subordinate to the Wehrmacht High Command. His propaganda images glorifying war are among the best-known examples of this genre, including Tanks in Battle , Fighters , German Artillery on the Advance , German Non-Commissioned Officer after the Street Fight , Through the Russian Steppe , Reconnaissance Pilots , In Firing Position , and In Combat Formation . Between 1941 and 1944 he was represented with 20 pictures at the “'Great German Art Exhibition', making him the most prolific painter of propaganda pictures of that time. The buyers of the works included Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels and Albert Speer. In 1943 he lost his studio and most of his works. In 1944 he was represented at the art exhibition Reichsführer SS in Breslau 'German Artists and the SS'. After 1945, he worked as a book illustrator for the publishing house Volk und Wissen and as a press illustrator, without much success . Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page