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Commercial cover posted in Darmstadt to Abeles G.m.b.H. in Munich. Ref: 12.08.1935 - 2/11 12th August 1935 Abeles G.m.b.H. 12.08.1935 Abeles reverse.jpeg 12.08.1935 Abeles reverse.jpeg 1/1 Commercial cover posted in Darmstadt to Abeles G.m.b.H. in Munich. Ref: 12.08.1935 - 2/11 Max Abeles - Founder of Abeles G.m.b.H. Abridged from gedenken9nov38.de Max Abeles was born in 1865. He married Dorothea Abeles in Kaunowa in 1890, lived in Chiesch, and had four children. Max Abeles found the cigarette & Tobacco factory, Abeles GmbH. Three of the sons and the son-in-law work at the company. The Abeles company flourishes and has several branches in Munich employing 42 people. Their son Fritz runs several branches. In 1927 he registered a small and wholesale tobacco business with the trade office and had a tobacco shop at Theatinerstrasse 52, which was later joined by two branches at Dachauerstrasse 5 and Schillerstrasse 36. Fritz Abeles' tobacco shop on Theatinerstrasse achieved annual sales of over 100,000 marks in 1936. In the summer of 1938, Fritz tried to sell the business which was rejected by the 'Working Group for Jewish Affairs' under the leadership of the IHK for supposedly 'economic reasons'. During Kristallnacht the shop was demolished and officially closed on 10th November. In 1939, the business and the inventory were taken over by Hans Lorenz at a far lower value, so that Fritz Abeles only had 4,022 marks left at the end of the year. During 1938 Abeles-GmbH at Lindwurmstrasse 125 tried to find a buyer, without success. After Kristallnacht the company ceased operations. Eugen Abeles is appointed liquidator. On 16th November, Abeles GmbH was deregistered. Later, the property, Lindwurmstrasse 125, would become the last refuge of the Israelite religious community. In the summer of 1940, Max and Dorothea Abeles were evicted', as the cynical term was called at the time. They moved from Sendling to Leopoldstr. to Schwabing in a so-called 'Jewish house', where they have to live crammed together with over 50 fellow sufferers. In November 1941, Max and Dorothea Abeles were forced into the Clemens-August-Straße internment camp in Berg am Laim and in February 1942 into the Milbertshofen barracks camp at Knorrstraße 148. On 17th June, 1942, Max Abeles and his wife Dorothea were deported to Theresienstadt. On 19th September both were deported to the Treblinka extermination camp and murdered there; Dora is 75 years old, Max would have been 77 two days later. Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

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Souvenir sheet (Ref:SS16a) commemorating the 100th birthday anniversary of Ferdinand von Zeppelin. Featuring air mail stamps Mi.669 and Mi. 670 issued to celebrate von Zeppelin's birthday. Ref: 08.07.1938 Mi.669-670 (05.07.1938) von Zeppelin's 100th birthday 08.07.1938 Zeppelin reverse.jpeg 08.07.1938 Zeppelin reverse.jpeg 1/1 Souvenir sheet (Ref:SS16a) commemorating the 100th birthday anniversary of Ferdinand von Zeppelin. Featuring air mail stamps Mi.669 and Mi. 670 issued to celebrate von Zeppelin's birthday. Ref: 08.07.1938 Mi.669-670 Airmail stamps: Ferdinand von Zeppelin's 100 birthday Mi.669. Count von Zeppelin (1838-1917) in his airship. Ref: 29.091.938 - 15/56 Mi.670. Cockpit of the airship 'Hindenburg' LZ129. Ref: 29.09.1938 - 15/56 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Feldpost Stamps Feldpost Stamps 1/1 FELDPOST STAMPS Using the Michel Germany Specialised 2016 catalogue as reference General Issues 1942 Mi.1 Permission stamp for air mail field post covers (18.04.1942/1943) Mi.2 Permission stamp for field post packages (10.07.1942/1943) 1944 Mi.3 Permission stamp for field post packages up to 2 Kg (24.11.1944) 'FELDPOST/ 2 kg' overprint on Mi.795 (40 Pf) Mi.4 Permission stamp for field post Christmas packages up to 1000 g from homeland to front (20.10.1944) Local issues 1943 Mi.5 Permission stamp for field post for the troops in North Africa. Tunis (April 1943) Island Post Mi.6 Vukovar overprint (diagonal 'Inselpost' on Mi.2 B). October 1944 Mi.7 Crete overprint (horizontal 'Inselpost' in red on Mi.1). November 1944 Mi.8 Rhodes Island overprint (horizontal 'INSELPOST' on Mi.1). November 1944 Mi.9 Rhodes Island overprint (horizontal 'INSELPOST' on Mi.2 b). November 1944 Agram (Zagreb) Mi.10 Overprint (diagonal 'INSELPOST' on Mi.2 A and 2 B). November 1944 Leros Mi.11 Overprint (horizontal 'INSELPOST' on Mi.1). February 1945 Note: This type style was also overprinted on a small number of Mi.2 A and 2 B Rhodes Mi.12 Postage stamp for the Aegean Islands (Mi.105 from 1938/39) overprinted with 'WEIHNACHTEN/ 1944'. December 1944 U-BOOT SUBMARINE POST Mi.13 Permission stamp for the troops cut off on the Hela peninsula. March 1945 Note: During the years of German occupation of Poland (1939-1945), Hela's defences were further expanded, and a battery of three 40.6 cm SK C/34 gun was constructed, but the guns were soon moved to the Atlantic Wall in occupied France. Hela peninsula remained in German hands until the end of World War II, when the defending forces surrendered on 14 May 1945, six days after Germany capitulated. Kuban bridgehead Mi.14 Package permission stamp. Two printed lines '1 Päcken/ Front-Heimat'. April 1943 Crimea Mi.15 Package permission stamp. Three printed lines '1 Päcken/ Richtung/ Heimat'. November 1943 Courland Mi.16 Half of Mi.4 divided vertically used in Courland as permission stamp for air mail. March 1945 Ruhr Pocket Mi.17 Air mail permission stamp for the troops encircled in the Ruhr area (Mi.782 - 3 pf - with overprint 'Feldpost'). April 1945 Also catalogued but not listed: 'OSTPRUSSEN-FELDPOST' (1941), Salonika unofficials (May 1944), Århus (Denmark) private creation, the 'Narvik stamp' (Norway) private creation. Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Mi.855 - 856 (27.07.1943) Peter Rosegger Mi.855 - 856 (27.07.1943) Peter Rosegger 1/1 Postcard depicting the 'Rosegger Denkmal' in Graz. Featuring postage stamp Mi.856 from the 100th Birthday of Peter Rosegger issue. Also featuring special cancellation JB:Krieglach2/450 issued from Roseggers birthplace. Ref: 31.07.1943 Link to the location of the 'Rosegger Denkmal' Mi.855 - 856 100th Centenary of birth of Peter Rosegger Notes: Design: Prof. Brunlechner (6+4 Pf), Maler Fuchs (12+8 Pf). Photogravure printing. Sheets 5 x 10 (Mi.855), 10 x 5 (Mi.856). Without watermark. Perf. 13¾ x 14 (Harper & Scheck), 14 (Michel). Quantity issued: unknown. Valid until May 1945 Mi.855 Mi.856 (Peter Rosegger). Ref: 31.07.1943 Peter Rosegger Peter Rosegger( 1843-1918) was an Austrian writer and poet from Krieglach in the province of Styria. He was a son of a mountain farmer and grew up in the woodlands and mountains of Alpl. Rosegger went on to become a most prolific poet and author as well as an insightful teacher and visionary. In his later years, he was honoured by officials from various Austrian universities and the city of Graz (the capital of Styria). He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times. He was nearly awarded the Nobel Prize in 1913 and is (at least among the people of Styria) something like a national treasure to this day. Source: Wikipedia "Neigung des Peter Rosegger": Wo der Nazi begraben liegt (‘Peter Rosegger's Inclination': Where the Nazi is buried) Article sourced from derstandard.at/. Translation by DeepL ‘Wou de knia nu in di stutzn. Wou de busn in da blusn’ is sung to the tune of the Styrian national anthem on the stage of the Graz Schauspielhaus at the opening of the season. The artificial Styrian that the young Upper Austrian author Thomas Arzt puts into the mouths of the protagonists in Die Neigung des Peter Rosegger when they sing is quite amusing. Unfortunately, however, the same cannot be said of the entire evening of the world premiere of the commissioned work. This is not due to the text. Arzt has presented a compact piece in which the controversial myth of the Heimat poet serves as a template. Nationalism, xenophobia, personal sensitivities, complexes and the diffuse concept of homeland, which so many see as endangered, are negotiated with wordplay. In a small Styrian town, the statue of Peter Rosegger on the main square suddenly tilts to the right. Was an earthquake on the Slovenian border the cause? The building contractor and big spender Wiesinger (Florian Köhler) doesn't think so. And he resists any structural measures that could prevent the poet from toppling over. The seismologist Heim (Franz Xaver Zach), who has travelled here, can talk all he wants. The employee Elfriede (Susanne Konstanze Weber), dressed in a jogging suit and mourning the loss of her dog ‘Bumsti’, believes that the refugees are to blame for everything. Only the mayor (Evamaria Salcher) and the labourer Matthias (Nico Link) try to keep a reasonably cool head at first. Arzt has created a multi-layered cast of characters. Florian Köhler in particular is able to make a lot out of this template: He plays the heir to a family business who always wanted to do everything right, but believed the SS grandad too much and seeks his salvation in Rosegger romanticism, with a subtle lunatic glint in his eye. ‘There are Peter Rosegger glasses. There is the Peter Rosegger jacket. There's Peter Rosegger wine,’ he says in defence of his idol when Heim asks him whether the writer, who was nominated for the Nobel Prize several times, ever received it. Wiesinger finally reaches for a gun to defend ‘his’ Rosegger after a border fence (watch out for southern Styria!) around the statue has done nothing to help. When the seismologist warns: ‘The man has a weapon!’ and the mayor counters: ‘We all have weapons here.’, we are closer to the insane reality than Nina Gühlstorff's production ever is to the core of the text. That is a pity. The critical and subtle humour of the text is repeatedly drowned out by the overly kitschy production. Marouscha Levy's costumes, which really hurt the eyes, are also completely out of place. The worried citizens and the frustrated town archivist, with whom Henriette Blumenau plays a wonderful amorous counterpart to Wiesinger, are described by Arzt without compassion, but not shown off. But the direction and costumes do just that, begging for laughs that have long since got stuck in your throat. At the end, the Nazi grandfather lies buried under the statue - with his arm outstretched. You just shouldn't dig in the brown earth of the green marrow. Unless you have the right tools with you. Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

24th June 1935 Mi.P198 1/0 Mi.P198 - See 24.06.1935 - 24/64 Martin Nathan (1901-1984)? I thank you for your letter of the 5th of this month and have since written directly to Mr Kneip in this matter to say that I have taken note of the documents sent in for future requirements, but that unfortunately I have no need for employees at the moment, so that it is not possible for me to make a request now. I regret not being able to give you a different answer and wish you all the best. Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

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30th August 1938 1/0 30th August 1938 Sarvar to 27 Queen Square, Bath Dear Madeleine! Many thanks for you letter. It is raining hard this morning. I went for a ride, but had to return soon. Me and my horse were very wet. I begin recovering from the wedding. I was tied. This week Deidi and her family have left us. I am sorry. Her baby boy is such a darling. I am looking forward to seeing them again in November, when they are coming to the shootings. Her husband is very keen on it. He has just bought new guns. Baby must be in Luzern (Swiss) by now. She has gone from Budapest to Yugoslavia, where she met a friend who is married there. Then she went along the coast to Venice. She spent her time on the Lido, bathing and sight-seeing. She was delighted. Then she went to Aquileia and the Lake Garda. She stayed in Malcesine some days. Now she went to Switzerland and stayed there till mid-September. She will go to Achberg near Lindau. Her house will be quite small, near an old castle. I went to a very nice dance last Saturday. There were about 60 people with the Counts Erdody. The gypsies played until 5 or 6 next morning. It was great fun. I hope you had nice holidays and the weather was fine. It is a depressing sight being near a lake when it rains. Did you go to the theatre in London? What did you see? It must be great fun to go shopping in London. I always enjoy shopping. We have got Aileen Shepherd here. She is 17. She is the girl with whom Muck stayed near Birmingham. She has to go to a Polish convent next week. She is very nice. I am looking forward to see “Mr Deeds Goes To Town”. Gary Cooper is my favourite and I am sure he is very good in this comedy too. Did you see it? Going to the pictures is the only fun you have when it is raining. If you would like a foto of Babys wedding, write to me, please. I have none here to send you now, as all we can spare are sent away. Mami will order more and then you’ll get one. I think I have done enough writing for to-day. Much love Loll Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

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