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GERMAN POSTAGE STAMPS GERMAN POSTAGE STAMPS 1/1 GERMAN POSTAGE STAMP DIRECTORY German stamps issued before 1933 (with post-1933 usage) German postage stamp issues 1933-1945 Using the Michel Germany Specialised 2016 catalogue as reference Booklet panes (some in part) from booklet sheets (H-pane) 1933-41 Using the Michel Germany Specialised 2016 catalogue as reference Booklet sheets. Stamp sequences from larger sheets (MHB) 1933-1941 Using the Michel Germany Specialised 2016 catalogue as reference OCCUPATION ISSUES German Occupation Issue postage stamps 1939-1945 Using the Michel Germany Specialised 2016 catalogue as reference German Occupation Issue private issue stamps 1939-1945 Using the Michel Germany Specialised 2016 catalogue as reference Link to Feldpost Stamps POST-WAR German local postage stamp issues from 1945 Using the Michel Germany Specialised 2016 catalogue as reference German unofficial and private postage stamp issues from 1945 Using the Michel Germany Specialised 2016 catalogue as reference MISCELLANEOUS 'Deutsches Reich' imprint stamps Hindenburg Medallion imprint stamps 8 Pf (see 11.02.1939) Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

German Third Reich Stamp issues Mi.479-M.910 German Third Reich Stamp issues Mi.479-M.910 14.10.1933 Chicagofahrt reverse.jpeg 14.10.1933 Chicagofahrt reverse.jpeg 1/1 Cover featuring Mi.498, the 'Chicagofahrt' overprint, celebrating the airship 'Graf Zeppelin' (LZ127) and its flight to the World's Fair in Chicago. Ref: 14.10.1933 - 10/8 German postage stamp issues between 1933 - 1945 (Mi.479 - Mi.910) Link to German bisect stamps here Pre 1933 issues Used on cover after 31st January 1933 1 927/ December 1933 - OFFICIAL (straw hat pattern) ( Mi.114-131 ) 1st September 1928 - Definitives (Presidents Ebert and Hindenburg) ( Mi.410 - 422 ) 1933 12th April - Opening of the Reichstag in Potsdam (Mi.479-481) April/August 1933 - Definitives: President von Hindenburg. (Mi.482-495 Wmk.2 X - Horizontal waffle watermark) 25th September - Chicago World Exhibition Flight of Graf Zeppelin (Mi.496-498) 1st November - Wagner's Operas (Mi.499-507) 29th November - St. Elizabeth overprinted '1923-1933' , Miniature Sheet (Mi.508-511, Block 2) 4th December/ February 1936 - Definitives: President von Hindenburg. (Mi.512 - 528 Wmk.4 Swastika) 1934 18th January - OFFICIAL (oak leaf wreath) (Mi.132-143) 21st January - Airmail (Mi.529 - 539) 30th June - Colonial Explorers (Mi.540 - 543) 26th August - Saar Vote on the 13th January 1935 (Mi.544 - 545) 1st September - Nazi Party Rally, Nuremberg (Mi.546 - 547) 4th September - Death of Paul von Hindenburg (Mi.548 - 553) 5th November - 175th Birthday of Friedrich von Schiller (Mi.554 - 555) 5th November - German Emergency Aid: Professions (Mi.556 - 564) 1935 16th January - Saar Plebiscite (13.01.1935) (Mi.565 - 568) 15th March - Hero Memorial Day for Soldiers Killed in the First World War (Mi.569 - 570) 26th April - Reich Profession Competition ( 'Reichsberufswettkampf' ) (Mi.571 - 572) 21st June - Composers (Schütz, Bach, and Handel) (Mi.573 - 575) 23rd June - 'OSTROPA', Miniature Sheet (Mi.576 - 579, Block 3) 10th July - 100 Years German Railways (Mi.580 - 583) 25th July - World Meeting of the Hitler Youth (Mi.584 - 585) 30th August - Nazi Party Rally, Nuremberg (Mi.586 - 587) 4th October - German Emergency Aid: Traditional Costumes (Mi.588 - 597) 5th November - 12th Anniversary of the 'March to the Feldherrnhalle' (Mi.598 - 599) 25th November - Olympic Winter Games 1936 (Mi.600 - 602) 1936 6th January - 10 Years of Lufthansa (Mi.603) 15th February - International Motorcycle and Motorcar Show (Daimler and Benz) (Mi.604 - 605) 16th March - Airmail (Mi.606 - 607) 4th May - 250th Anniversary of the Death of Otto von Guericke (Mi.608) 9th May - Olympic Summer Games (Mi.609 - 616) 3rd June - International Municipal Congress (Mi.617 - 620) 22nd June - 'Brown Ribbon' , Miniature Sheet (Mi.621, Block 4) 30th June - World Congress for Leisure and Recreation (Mi.622 - 623) 1st August - Olympic Summer Games Miniature Sheets (Mi.624 - 627, Block 5, and Mi.628 - 631, Block 6) 3rd September - Nazi Party Rally, Nuremberg (Mi.632 - 633) 21st September/ 26th October - Winter Relief: Modern Buildings (Mi.634 - 642) 1937 3rd March - Air Raid Defence (Mi.643 - 645) 5th April - 48th Birthday of Adolf Hitler, Miniature Sheet (Mi.646, Block 7, Perf) 16th April - 1st National Stamp Exhibition, Miniature Sheet (as Block 7) (Mi.647, Block 8, Imperf) 10th June - Culture Promotion, Miniature Sheet (as Block 7) (Mi.648, Block 9, Perf + Roulette + Horizonatal o/print) 1st August - 'Brown Ribbon' , Miniature Sheet (as Block 4) (Mi.649, Block 10, Red o/print) 3rd September - Nazi Party Rally, Nuremberg, Miniature Sheet (as Block 9) (Mi.650, Block 11, Perf + Roulette + Horizontal and Vertical o/print) 4th November - Winter Relief: Ships (Mi.651 - 659) 1938 26th January - OFFICIAL (eagle on pedestal) (Mi.144-154) 28th January - 5th Anniversary of the Siezure of Power by Adolf Hitler (Mi.660 - 661) From 4th April 1938 German stamps were also valid in Austria (with Austrian stamps were still not valid in Germany). German postal rates were also imposed on this date with 1 RM = 1.50 Schilling. 8th April - Referendum in Austria (Berlin Printing) (Mi.662) 8th April - Referendum in Austria (Vienna Printing) (Mi.663 - 'E.P.' engraver's mark lower left) 13th April - 49th Birthday of Adolf Hitler (Mi.664) 21st June - German Gymnastics and Sports Festival, Breslau (Mi.665 - 668) 5th July - Airmail: 100th Birthday of Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin (Mi.669 - 670) 20th July - 'Brown Ribbon' Horse Race (Mi.671) 1st September - Nazi Party Rally, Nuremberg (Mi.672) 9th October - Inauguration of the Gautheatre Saarpfalz (Mi.673 - 674) 18th November - Winter Relief: Ostmark Landscapes and Alpine Flowers (Mi.675 - 683) 2nd December - Referendum in the Sudetenland (Mi.684 - 685) 1939 17th February - International Automobile and Motorcycle Exhibition, Berlin (Mi.686 - 688) 4th April - Reich Profession Competition ( 'Reichsberufswettkampf' ) (Mi.689 - 690) 13th April - 50th Birthday of Adolf Hitler (Mi.691) 22nd April - Reichsgartenschau, Stuttgart (Mi.692 - 693) 28th April - Labour Day (1st of May) (Mi.694) 18th May - Nürburgring Race (as Mi.686 - 688) (Mi.695 - 697, with 'NÜRBURGRING-RENNEN' o/print) 18th June - 70 Years German Derby (Mi.698) 12th July - ' Brown Ribbon ' Horese Race (Mi.699) 12th July - Day of German Art (Mi.700) 25th August - Intended Nazi Party Rally, Nuremberg (Mi.701) 15th September - 'Comradeship Organisation' of the German Reichspost (Mi.702 - 713) 18th September - Reintegration of Danzig into the German Reich (Mi.714 - 715) 1st October - Definitive Stamps of Danzig (Mi.716 - 729, with value and 'Deutsches Reich' o/print) 27th October - Winter Relief: Buildings (Mi.730 - 738) 1st November - Newspaper Stamps for Delivery Abroad (Mi.738 - 739) 1940 3rd March - Leipzig Spring Fair: View of Leipzig (Mi.739 - 742) 28th March - National Stamp Exhibition, Berlin (Mi.743) 10th April - 51st Birthday of Adolf Hitler (Mi.744) 30th April - Labour Day (1st of May) (Mi.745) 22nd June - Horse Races for the Blue Ribbon (German Derby) (Mi.746) 20th July - 'Brown Ribbon' Horse Race (Mi.747) 25th July - Reintegration of Eupen, Malmedy and Moresnet (Mi.748 - 749) 9th August - Heligoland since 50 Years (Mi.750) 5th November - Winter Relief: Buildings (Mi.751 - 759) 26th November - 50 Years Diptheria Serum (Mi.760 - 761) 1941 12th January - Stamp Day (Mi.762) 30th January - German-Italian Brotherhood of Arms (Mi.763) 1st March - Leipzig Spring Fair (Mi.764 - 767) 8th March - Viennese Spring Fair (Mi.768 - 771) 17th April - 52nd Birthday of Adolf Hitler (Mi.772) 19th May - 'Comradeship Organisation' of the German Reichspost (Mi.773 - 778, as per 15.09.1939 with different colours and values) 20th June - Horse Races for the Blue Ribbon (German Derby) (Mi.779) 20th July - 'Brown Ribbon' Horse Race (Mi.780) 1st August 1941/ 1944 - Definitives: Adolf Hitler (Mi.781 - 798, with Mi. A 795 - 42 pf - being issued in 1944) 20th March 1942/ 1944 - Definitives: Adolf Hitler (Mi.799 - 802, 12½ 'Perfix' Line Perforation 1942, 14 Comb Perforation 1944) Note: From Mi.803 all stamps were printed on paper without a watermark 9th September - 'The Grand Prix of the Reich Capital' Horse Race (Mi.803) 16th September - Viennese Fair (Mi.804 - 805) 29th September - Integration of Subregions of Styria, Carinthia and Carniola (Mi.806 - 809) 28th November - 150th Anniversary of the Death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Mi.810) 1942 1942/44 - OFFICIAL (oak leaf wreath) (Mi.166-177) 11th January - Stamp Day (Mi.811) 2nd March - OFFICIAL (eagle on pedestal) (Mi.155-165) 10th March - Memorial Day (Mi.812) 13th April - 53rd Birthday of Adolf Hitler (Mi.813) 16th June - Horse Races for the Blue Ribbon (German Derby) (Mi.814) 14th July - 'Brown Ribbon' Horse Race (Mi.815) 8th August - 10 Years German Society for Goldsmithing (Mi.816 - 817) 8th August - Military Training Days for the Sturmabteilung (SA) (Mi.818) 29th August - 400th Anniversary of the Death of Peter Henlein (Mi.819) 12th October - European Postal Congress of the Axis Powers, Vienna (Mi.820 - 822) 19th October - Signing of the Convention on the European Telecommunications Union (Mi.823 - 825, as Mi.820 - 822 with '19. Oktober. 1942' o/print) December 1942 - Definitive Stamps: Adolf Hitler (Mi.826 - 827, 10 Pf Sienna and 12 Pf Red) 1943 10th January - Stamp day (Mi.828) 26th January - 10th Anniversary of the Seizure of Power by Adolf Hitler (Mi.829) 26th January - Stamp for Special Postmarks (Mi.830) 21st March - Day of the Wehrmacht; Memorial Day (Mi.831 - 842) 26th March - Day of the Youth Oath to Hitler (Mi.843) 13th April - 54th Birthday of Adolf Hitler (Mi.844 - 849) 26th June - 8 Years Reich Labour Service (Mi.850 - 853) 27th July - 'Brown Ribbon' Horse Race (M.854) 27th July - 100th Birthday of Peter Rosegger (Mi.855 - 856) 13th August - 'Grand Prix of Vienna' Horse Race (Mi.857 - 858) 1st September - 10 Years Winter Relief (Mi.859) 1st October - German Society for Goldsmithing (Mi.860 - 861) 24th October - 800 years Hanseatic City Lubeck (Mi.862) 5th November - 20th Anniversary of the 'March to the Feldherrnhalle' (Mi.863) 1944 Note: As from Mi.864 (with the expections of Mi.888 - 893) all issues bear the inscription 'GROSSDEUTSCHES REICH' . 25th January - 100th Birthday of Robert Koch (Mi.894) 29th January - 11th Anniversary of the Seizure of Power by Adolf Hitler (Mi.865) 11th February - 25 Years German Airmail Service (Mi.866 - 868) 2nd March - 10 Years Relief Oraganisation 'Mother and Child' (Mi.869 - 872) 11th March - Day of the Wehrmacht; Memorial day (Mi.873 - 885) 11th March - 1200 Years City of Fulda (Mi.886) 14th April - 55th Birthday of Adolf Hitler (Mi.887) May 1944 - 'Comradeship Organisation' of the German Reichspost (Mi.888 - 893) June 1944 - Exhibition of the Reich Labour Service (RAD) (Mi.894 - 895) 1st July - 400 Years Albertus University (Albertina), Königsberg (Mi.896) 1st July - 7th Tyrolean Landesschießen (marksmen's fair), Innsbruck (Mi.897 - 898) 23rd July - 'Brown Ribbon' Horse Race (Mi.899) August 1944 - 'Grand Prix of Vienna' Horse Race (Mi.900 - 901) 11th September - German Society for Goldsmithing (Mi.902 - 903) 2nd October - Stamp Day (Mi.904) Note: Mi.905 is no longer listed in the catalogue 9th November - 21st Anniversary of the 'March to the Feldherrnhalle' (Mi.906) 1945 6th January - 600th Anniversary of Granting the City Privilege to Oldenburg (Mi.907) February 1945 - Party Militia 'The Volkssturm' (Mi.908) 21st April - Party Organsiations Sturmabteilung (SA) and Schutzstaffel (SS) (Mi.909 - 910) Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Concentration Camp Directory Concentration Camp Directory 1/1 Concentration Camp Directory (camp/date source: Simon, 1973. Sub-camps to be added at a later date) Amersfoort 08.1941 - 05.1945, Ankenbuck (Baden) - 04.1933 - 01.1934 Auschwitz (Oswiecim) 05.1940 - 01.1945 'Konzentrationslager Auschwitz' envelope date stamped 14.11.1941 Friedrich Boos and construction within Auschwitz Bad Sulza (Thuer.) 07.1933 - 07.1937, Bergen-Belsen (Hann.) 07.1943 - 04.1945, Boergermorr (Hann.) 1933 - 1934, Brandenburg 03.1933 - 04.1934, Brauweiler 06.1933 - 04.1934, Breitenau (Hessen) 11.1933 - 1934, Buchenwald (nr. Weimar) 07.1937 - 04.1945, Colditz (Sachsen) 07.1933 - 05.1934, Columbia House (Berlin) 01.1935 - 11.1936, Dachau (nr. Munich) 03.1933 - 04.1945, Druette (Braunschweig) 11.1942 - 04.1945, Esterwegen (Hann.) 03.1933 - 09.1936, Flossenbuerg (Bavaria) 05.1938 - 04.1945, Fuhlsbuettel (Hambg) 09.1933 - 01.1937, Gross-Rosen (Silesia) 08.1940 - 02.1945, Gusen (Langenstein) 05.1940 - 05.1945, Hammerstein (Posen) 1933 - 1935, Heuberg (Baden) 05.1933 - 11.1933, Herzogenbosch 01.1943 - 09.1944, Hohnstein (Sachsen) 12.1933 - 08.1934, Kemma (Rhein) 07.1933 - 01.1934, Lichtenburg (Torgau) 06.1933 - 08.1937/ 03.1938 - 05.1939, Mauthhausen (Linz) 08.1938 - 05.1945, Moringen (Hann.) 03.1933 - 11.1933, Natzweiler 07.1941 - 09.1944 Neuengamme (Hambg) 12.1938 - 04.1945 Origins of sub-camp at Beendorf Neusustrum (Hann.) 1933 - 04.1945, Oranienburg (Berlin) 06.1933 - 05.1945, Osthofen (Hessen) 04.1933 - 08.1933, Papenburg (Hann.) 1934 - 04.1945, Ravensbrueck (Brandb'g) 05.1939- 04.1945, Sabac (Serbia) 05.1941 - 09.1943Sachsenburg (Sachsen) 05.1933 - 09.1937, Sachsenhausen (Berlin) 08.1936 - 04.1945, Sonnenburg (Brandb'g) 04.1933 - 04.1934, Stettin-Bredow 02.1933 - 02.1934, Stutthof (Danzig) 01.1942 - 01.1945, Theresienstadt (Prague) 11.1941 - 05.1945, Ulm-Kuhberg (Wttbg) 11.1933 - 07.1933, Werden (Rhein) 06.1933 - ????, Westerbork (Holland) 06.1942 - 04.1945 Sachsenhausen/ Oranienburg Postcard - SS-Lager Oranienburg Stutthof Cancellation that could be used to tell the story. Tenuous. Wieda Sub-camps for inmates from Buchenwald, MittelbauI, and Sachsenhausen Wittmoor (Hambg) Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Postcard issued by the Nazi Party together with propaganda labels for the Presidential elections of 13th March 1932. The message printed on pink paper reads, 'Thälmann doesn't say a word about the Jews having caused inflation, that's why we elect Hitler'. The message printed on cream paper reads, 'Under the S.P.D. we became breadless, now we vote for Hitler'. Ref: 11.03.1932 - Fleurs & Papillons 11th March 1932 Presidential Election, March 1932 11.03.1932 Presidential Election reverse.jpeg 11.03.1932 Presidential Election reverse.jpeg 1/1 Postcard issued by the Nazi Party together with propaganda labels for the Presidential elections of 13th March 1932. The message printed on pink paper reads, 'Thälmann doesn't say a word about the Jews having caused inflation, that's why we elect Hitler'. The message printed on cream paper reads, 'Under the S.P.D. we became breadless, now we vote for Hitler'. Ref: 11.03.1932 - Fleurs & Papillons Ernst Thälmann and the Presidential Election, 13th March 1932 From Wikipedia (2024): Ernst Thälmann (1886-1944), German communist politician, and leader of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) from 1925 to 1933. A committed communist, Thälmann played a major role during the political instability of the Weimar Republic, especially in its final years, when the KPD explicitly sought to overthrow the liberal democracy of the republic. Under his leadership the KPD became intimately associated with the government of the Soviet Union and the policies of Joseph Stalin. The KPD under Thälmann's leadership regarded the Social Democratic Party (SPD) as its main adversary and the party adopted the position that the social democrats were 'social fascists'. (Also see: https://www.briefhistory.co.uk/1946/karl-liebknecht ) Thälmann was also leader of the paramilitary Roter Frontkämpferbund . He was arrested by the Gestapo in 1933 and held in solitary confinement for eleven years; for political reasons, Stalin did not seek his release after the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact with Germany, and Thälmann's party rival Walter Ulbricht ignored requests to plead on his behalf. Thälmann was shot on Adolf Hitler's personal orders in Buchenwald in 1944. Unused fund-raising postcard (from 1929) for National Socialist prisoners and wounded. Painting by Felix Albrecht. Below the image the statement from Ernst Röhm reads, 'Your will is demanding victory'. Together with a 50 Pf donation label for the Reichspräsidenten-Wahlkampf of March 1932. Ref: Fleurs & Papillons Biography of Felix Albrecht Presidential Election, 1932 Presidential elections were held in Germany on 13th March, with a runoff on 10th April. Independent incumbent Paul von Hindenburg won a second seven-year term against Adolf Hitler of the Nazi Party (NSDAP). Communist Party (KPD) leader Ernst Thälmann also ran and received more than ten percent of the vote in the runoff. Theodor Duesterberg , the deputy leader of the World War I veterans' organization Der Stahlhelm , ran in the first round but dropped out of the runoff. This was the second and final direct election to the office of President of the Reich ( Reichspräsident ), Germany's head of state under the Weimar Republic . (The KPD's slogan was 'A vote for Hindenburg is a vote for Hitler; a vote for Hitler is a vote for war.' Thälmann returned as a candidate in the second round of the election, as it was permitted by the German electoral law, but his vote count lessened from 4,983,000, in the first round, to 3,707,000.) Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Brief History is a resource for German Philatelic & Postal History from the Third Reich period to the Allied Occupation (1933-1947) with emphasis on German stamps, postcards, official & commercial covers, feldpost, occupation overprints, censored mail, propaganda and items of contemporary social interest. German History 1933-1947 A Philatelic Notebook index A resource for German Philatelic, Postal and Social History during the Third Reich period, intended for collectors, researchers and historians. Disclaimer: This website does not support the politics, motives, or actions of World War II Nazi Germany, the government of the Third Reich or its leaders and political supporters. The information provided on the website is intended for collectors, researchers and historians who seek to learn more about German Philatelic, Postal and Social History between 1933 -1945.

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Mi.1-7 (15.12.1945) Plauen Mi.1-7 (15.12.1945) Plauen 1/0 Large 'nachnahme' cover sent from Leipzig to an address in Chemnitz. Featuring 12 + 8 Pf Plauen (Mi.5y). Ref: 14.05.1946 - 11/18 German Local Issue - Plauen - Reconstruction Mi.1 - 7 issued 15th December 1945 Mi.5y (thick white paper). Ref: 14.05.1946 - 11/18

4th August 1934 Sidney Webb 1/1 Cover featuring 1929 Russian definitives Mi.369 & Mi.373 See 04.08.1934 - 24/17 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

11th April 1939 Philatelisten Cabinet 11th April 1939 Philatelisten Cabinet 11.04.1939 Philatelisten Cabinet K34 reverse.jpeg 11.04.1939 Philatelisten Cabinet K34 reverse.jpeg 1/1 A5 size envelope sent from the 'Philatelisten Cabinet' in Berlin to an address also in Berlin. Featuring K34 from MHB 64. Ref: 11.04.1939 Philatelisten Cabinet Berlin-Wilmersdorf, Konstanzer Str.8 No imformation as at 12.2023 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

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