2nd September 1942 A schätzungsurkunde vehicle appraisal form for a BMW 3/20 AM4 model (manufactured 1933-34), featuring 20 RM of fee stamps. Ref: 02.09.1942

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1st July 1942 Feldpost designation letter 'a' Feldpost cover featuring the designation letter 'a' (small point size). Together with Feldpost R-Label with local post office number 848 (also seen in the cancel). Ref: 01.07.1942 - 3/63 'FELDPOST ' designation letters: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o , a1etc. , Aa etc. , Misc. Feldpost designation letter 'a' variations Lager point size. Without dashes or feldpost office number. Ref: 08.10.1940 - 1/35 Lager point size, low position. Ref: 02.04.1942 - 9/53 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

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1st February 1942 Berlin Lichtenberg Philatelic AGM Postcard invitation from the Stamp Collectors Association Berlin Lichtenberg to a member announcing the AGM for 5th February 1942. Ref: 01.02.1942 - 32/87 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

15th November 1942 Munster Lager Postcard depicting a view of Munster Lager. Sent via Feldpost from an unknown soldier. Ref: 15.11.1942 - 22/67 Munster Lager The Munster Training Area (German: Truppenübungsplatz Munster ) is a military training area in Germany on the Lüneburg Heath. It comprises two separate areas with different purposes: Munster North ( Munster-Nord ) (size: 102 square kilometres (39 sq mi)) and Munster South ( Munster-Süd ) (size: 74 square kilometres (29 sq mi)). The two areas are separated geographically by the town of Munster and several barracks. When the military training area was established a camp or Lager was built about 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) from the town centre which became known as Munsterlager. Between Munster North and South there is a road corridor to the nearby training area of Bergen-Hohne over which exercising troops can transfer from one area to the other. There are many rare and endangered plant species on this terrain today that thrive in the environment created by the training area. The Landesschützen-Bataillon 675. The Rifle was formed on 8th April 1940 in Wehrkreis X. After its formation, the battalion was subordinated to Division z.b.V. 410. From 18th June 1940 to 25th July 1940, the battalion formed the III Battalion of the Landesschützen-Regiment 105, which was subordinated to the Division z.b.V. 460 and deployed in Denmark. The battalion was then transferred back to Lüneburg, also Wehrkreis X, and renamed Landesschützen-Bataillon z.b.V. 675 again. From 9th August 1940, the battalion was again subordinated to Division z.b.V. 410. In 1941, the battalion was stationed in Munsterlager, also Wehrkreis X . In November 1941, the battalion was transferred to the east. There, the battalion was alternately subordinated to the Wehrmacht Commander Ostland and the Army Group Centre. From the beginning of 1943, the battalion also had a 4th (East) Company. In June 1944, the battalion was deployed on the Berezina. There it was also destroyed and disbanded by Army Group Centre that month. Postcard ref: 10.11.1941 - 22/68 In 1916 the so-called Breloh Camp ( Breloh-Lager ) was built in north Munster by a regiment of gas warfare engineers (‘Gaspionier-Regiment’). In January 1917 the Prussian War Office issued an order for the construction of a facility for gas munitions. Gasplatz Breloh was built on a piece of land about 6,500 hectares (16,000 acres) in size in the Raubkammer Forest (part of the present-day Munster North Training Area). Three factories were erected for the manufacture of chemical war material and associated munitions. Production began as early as July that year and, by the end of the First World War in 1918 extensive facilities had been built, the majority of which were working. At the end of the war in 1918 the Gasplatz held about 48,000 tonnes (47,000 long tons; 53,000 short tons) of chemical munitions, several thousand tonnes of chemically-filled captured munitions and 40 tank wagons of unfilled chemicals. These supplies were sunk in the North Sea and the Baltic. During the preparations for this there was a tragic accident on 24th October 1919. A train laden with chemical weapons and munitions exploded. Apart from the Clarkwerk factory and the power station almost the entire facility was destroyed, a total of 42 buildings. Chemical grenades were catapulted for miles around and clouds of poison gas threatened the surrounding villages, some having to be evacuated. Many houses in the surrounding area were badly damaged. In addition to the immediate victims of the explosion there were numerous deaths in the months that followed. Feldpost cover from Munster Lager. The briefstempel reads,'Stellv. Gen Kdo' (Representative of the Headquarters), 'X.A.K.' (X Army Corps), 'Wehrkreiskommando X' (Military District X). The briefstempel being applied by the offices of the Commander of the Training Center at Munster lager, which was directly subordinate to X Army Corps. Ref: 21.08.1943 The terrain was supposed to be cleared by 1925. Roughly 1,000 workers combed the surface of the land out to a radius of 3 km (1.9 mi) from the explosion site. There was no detection equipment at that time. A considerable quantity of chemical munitions remained live. In 1921 the Hamburg firm of Stolzenberg took over the work that had been previously carried out by König and Evaporator AG. Stolzenberg established a chemical incineration facility and a site to convert chlorine gas and diphosgene. The latter installation exploded on being taken into service in April 1922. In spite of everything, clearance work was completed in 1925 and the remaining facilities were blown up at the behest of the Allies. In 1935 the Wehrmacht opened Breloh again as a Weapon Testing and Firing Site ( Kampfstoffversuchs- und Geschützübungsplatz ). The plan was for an overall split of 15% chemical and 85% explosive munitions. The chemical weapons were to be filled with mustard gas ( Lost ) and phenacyl chloride. The 6,500 hectares (16,000 acres) or so of the old Gasplatz were transferred in 1934 to the Reich Defence Ministry and were expanded through purchases and expropriation to about 10,200 hectares (25,000 acres). The whole complex, which was largely built between 1935 and 1938, was called the Munster North Army Testing Facility ( Heeresversuchstelle Munster-Nord ), often referred to as the Raubkammer Army Testing Facility. The main purpose of the facility was the testing of chemical weapons that had been developed in Berlin at the Army Chemical Defence Laboratory in Spandau Citadel ( Heeresgasschutzlaboratorium Zitadelle Spandau ). No. 9 Weapon Testing Office of the Army Weapons Office ( Heereswaffenamt ) and the Army Chemical Defence Laboratory moved at the beginning of March 1945 from Berlin to Munster (Örtze), due to air raids, and carried on working there until the end of the Second World War. An extensive range of tests were carried out on a wide variety of shells of various calibres, as well as on mines, projectiles, bombs (up to 500 kg (1,100 lb)) and spray equipment. The substances tried included arsenic oil, hydrogen cyanide, mustard gas ( Lost ), Tabun, Sarin, cyanogen chloride, phenacyl chloride, Adamsite, Aeroform, Excelsior (10-chlor-9,10-dihydroacridarsin) and many others. Chemical munitions were filled at the so-called 'fog-filling point' ( Nebelfüllstelle ), which had a tank capacity for about 3,000 t (3,000 long tons; 3,300 short tons) of chemical. At this filling point there was a large underground facility that was partly linked with walkways. During a spraying demonstration by the Luftwaffe on 8th September 1944, a Do-217E-3 crashed, killing all those on board. The facilities were mostly disguised as 'simple' bunker complexes or as houses in rural style. A network of railway branches linked the individual parts of the site with one another. There was also a link to the Reichsbahn network. Following occupation of the site by British forces in 1945 almost all the chemical installations were demolished in the succeeding years and most of the stocks of chemicals were also destroyed. In spite of that, it has left a dangerous legacy behind which is one of the largest areas of residual contamination caused by armaments in Germany. Since April 1956 there has been intensive work to clear the pollution. Today this is the responsibility of the specialist Group for Chemical Weapon Clearance ( Gruppe für Kampfmittelbeseitigung ), the Chemical Defence Research Establishment ( Wehrwissenschaftliches Institut für Schutztechnologien ) and the federal Chemical Weapon and Armament Pollution Disposal Company ( Gesellschaft zur Entsorgung chemischer Kampfstoffe und Rüstungsaltlasten ). Source: Wikipedia (2025) Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

4th December 1942 Muller Lichtspieltheater Commercial cover sent from Müller & Co. Lichtspieltheater-Betriebe (Cinema) at Mannheim to the Deutsche Filmvertriebs G.m.b.H. in Frankfurt a.M. Ref: 04.12.1942

15th August 1942 Guernsey Red Cross Red Cross letter-sheet sent via, 'The War Organisation of the British Red Cross and Order of St. John' from an unknown address (possibly in the Channel Islands), to an addressee in Guernsey. Featuring various hand-stamps, including, the German Red Cross in France, the International Red Cross in Genève, and the British Censor. Ref: 15.08.1942 - 33/54 Also see 33/55 (British Red Cross - Guernsey) & 33/56 (German Red Cross - Guernsey) Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

16th August 1942 Hertha BSC Postcard without written correspondence or address, featuring two images depicting the main football ground and the youth/training fields for Hertha Berliner Sport-Club. Also featuring special cancel JB:Berlin381/132, that commemorates Hertha's 50th anniversary. Ref: 16.08.1942 Hertha Berlin Sport-Club From Wikipedia: The club was formed in 1892 as BFC Hertha 92 , taking its name from a steamship with a blue and white smokestack; one of the four young men who founded the club had taken a day trip on this ship with his father. The name Hertha is a variation on Nerthus , referring to a fertility goddess from Germanic mythology. German football was re-organized under the Third Reich in 1933 into 16 top-flight divisions, which saw Hertha playing in the Gauliga Berlin-Brandenburg . The club continued to enjoy success within their division, regularly finishing in the upper half of the table and capturing the divisional title in 1935, 1937 and 1944. It faded from prominence, however, unable to advance out of the early rounds of the national championship rounds. Politically, the club was overhauled under Hitler , with Hans Pfeifer, a Nazi party member, being installed as president. Herta BSC presidents during the 3rd Reich period Taken from the official Herta BSC website: Wilhelm Wernicke (1882-1967) was president of Hertha with short interruptions from 1909 to 1933 and represents the club's most successful period in the championship years (1930 and 1931). As a long-time SPD member and trade unionist in Wedding, Wernicke had to move into the background from 1933/34, but he continued to pull the strings in the club. Wernicke remained an important contact for the players at this time. During the war he sent a letter every week with the coveted 'Football Week' to the 300 Herthaners at the front. Hans Pfeiffer was appointed president in 1933, succeeding Wilhelm Wernicke, who felt unable to continue as chairman of the association due to his long-standing SPD membership. The Nazi regime tried to prevent democratic elections in the association. However, at Hertha BSC, the auditors and members of the honorary council continued to be elected by the club meeting in subsequent years. Pfeiffer's term of office ended at the beginning of 1936 when his dubious business practices (including title fraud and possible embezzlement) and his financial mismanagement became known. Gottfried Rinderspacher was appointed 'club leader' by the Reichssportführer on 10th January 1936. He had been a member of the SA since 15th March 1934, but did not join the NSDAP. In March 1936, Gottfried Rinderspacher appointed business graduate Karl Windgassen as his deputy. On 27th April 1940, Karl Windgassen was elected the new 'club leader' at an extraordinary general meeting. After the war and the re-establishment of the club, he became the new club chairman and led Hertha BSC through the turmoil of the post-war period with Wilhelm Wernicke, Hanne Sobek, Karl Tewes and Rudi Romarus. Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page