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GTKG Get to know Germany Screenshot 2021-11-27 at 09.29.50.png Screenshot 2021-11-27 at 09.29.50.png 1/1 'Get to know Germany' (GTKG) postcard series HITLER HEAD Number coding to foot: e.g. 41 - year 190 - edition 1 - number of printing cylinder B1 - picture number in series 1941 (October) - Hitler head 72 brown postcards with 6 Pf. Hitler head imprint 41-184-1- 41-185-1- 41-186-1- 41-187-1- 41-188-1- 41-189-1- 41-190-1- 41-191-1- 1941 - Hitler head 375 brownish-black postcards with 6 Pf. Hitler head imprint 41-1-1- 41-2-1- 41-3-1- 42-4-1- 42-5-1- 42-6-1- 42-7-1- 42-8-1- 42-9-1- 42-10-1- 42-11-1- 42-12-1- 42-13-1- (18.10.1943) 42-14-1- 1942 - Hitler head 650 brownish-black postcards with 6 Pf. Hitler head imprint 42-15-1- 42-16-1- 42-17-1- 42-18-1- 42-19-1- 42-20-1- 42-21/22-1- (double issue) 42-23-1- 42-24-1- 42-25-1- 42-26-1- 42-27-1- (rare series) 42-28-1- 42-29-1- 42-30-1- 42-31-1- 42-32-1- (rare series) 42-33-1- 42-34-1- 42-35-1- 42-36-1- 42-37-1- 42-38-1- 42-39-1- Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page
Mi.1-15 (02.06.1941) Serbia definitive o/prints 1/1 Mi.1-15 Serbian definitive overprints New issue of Yugoslavian definitives Mi.393-407 with coloured burelage (intricate network of fine lines to deter forgers) and contorted black letter 'SERBIEN' running from upper left to lower right. Mi.2 - 0.50 D see 31.01.1942 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page
Mi.780 (20.07.1941) Brown Ribbon of Germany 1/1 Registered cover sent from Munich to Hungen. Featuring postage stamp Mi.780, tied with commemorative postmark, both celebrating 'The Brown Ribbon of Germany' horse race (won by 'Widling', ridden by G. Streit). Ref: 27.07.1941 - 16/84 Mi.780 'The Brown Ribbon of Germany' Mi.780. Ref: 27.07.1941 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page
14th November 1941 K.L. Auschwitz Envelope (type 2) sent from Auschwitz. Envelope (type 2) sent from Auschwitz. 1/1 Envelope (type 2 - non-italic text, greenish paper - also noted in blue. Simon, 1973) sent from K.L. Auschwitz to an address in Königshutte (Chorzów), Poland. Note the censor stamp (type 1 - 3 lines boxed, red - also noted in black. Simon, 1973). It is apparent that the censor hand-stamp has been applied whilst the flap has been open (the image appears on both the front and back panels), indicating that envelopes sent from Auschwitz could not be sealed before sending. Ref: Fleurs & Papillons See 16.04.1967 - 24/92 The text to the left of the senders address reads... Auschwitz Concentration Camp The following instructions must be observed in correspondence with prisoners: 1.) Every prisoner in preventive detention may receive and send two cards per month from their relatives. Letters to prisoners must be written legibly in ink and may only contain 15 lines on one page. Only normal-sized letterhead is permitted. Envelopes must be unlined. Only 5 stamps of 12 pfennigs each may be enclosed in a letter. Anything else is prohibited and subject to confiscation. Postcards have 10 lines. Photographs may not be used as postcards. 2.) Money transfers are permitted. 3.) Please ensure that the exact address, consisting of: Name, date of birth, and prisoner number, is written on the items. If the address is incorrect, the mail will be returned to the sender or destroyed. 4.) Newspapers are permitted, but may only be ordered through the post office of K.L. Auschwitz. 5.) Parcels may not be sent, as prisoners can buy anything in the camp. 6.) Requests for release from protective custody to the camp administration are not permitted. 7.) Speaking permits and visits by prisoners in concentration camps are generally not permitted. The camp Kommandant [Note camp Kommandant at this time of the envelope above was SS-Obersturmbannführer Rudolf Höss] Auschwitz Concentration Camp Auschwitz or Oświęcim, was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It consisted of Auschwitz I, the main camp ( Stammlager ) in Oświęcim; Auschwitz II-Birkenau, a concentration and extermination camp with gas chambers; Auschwitz III-Monowitz, a labour camp for the chemical conglomerate IG Farben; and dozens of sub-camps. The camps became a major site of the Nazis' Final Solution to the Jewish question. After Germany initiated World War II by invading Poland in September 1939, the Schutzstaffel (SS) converted Auschwitz I, an army barracks, into a prisoner-of-war camp. The initial transport of political detainees to Auschwitz consisted almost solely of Poles (for whom the camp was initially established). For the first two years, the majority of inmates were Polish. In May 1940, German criminals brought to the camp as functionaries established the camp's reputation for sadism. Prisoners were beaten, tortured, and executed for the most trivial of reasons. The first gassings—of Soviet and Polish prisoners—took place in block 11 of Auschwitz I around August 1941. Construction of Auschwitz II began the following month, and from 1942 until late 1944 freight trains delivered Jews from all over German-occupied Europe to its gas chambers. Of the 1.3 million people sent to Auschwitz, 1.1 million were murdered. The number of victims includes 960,000 Jews (865,000 of whom were gassed on arrival), 74,000 non-Jewish Poles, 21,000 Romani, 15,000 Soviet prisoners of war, and up to 15,000 others.[8] Those not gassed were murdered via starvation, exhaustion, disease, individual executions, or beatings. Others were killed during medical experiments. At least 802 prisoners tried to escape, 144 successfully, and on 7th October 1944, two Sonderkommando units, consisting of prisoners who operated the gas chambers, launched an unsuccessful uprising. After the Holocaust ended, only 789 Schutzstaffel personnel (no more than 15 percent) ever stood trial. Several were executed, including camp commandant Rudolf Höss. The Allies' failure to act on early reports of mass murder by bombing the camp or its railways remains controversial. As the Soviet Red Army approached Auschwitz in January 1945, toward the end of the war, the SS sent most of the camp's population west on a death march to camps inside Germany and Austria. Soviet troops liberated the camp on 27th January 1945, a day commemorated since 2005 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In the decades after the war, survivors such as Primo Levi, Viktor Frankl, Elie Wiesel, and Edith Eger wrote memoirs of their experiences, and the camp became a dominant symbol of the Holocaust. In 1947, Poland founded the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum on the site of Auschwitz I and II, and in 1979 it was named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Auschwitz is the site of the largest mass murder in a single location in history. Source: Wikipedia (2025) Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page
27th September 1941 Wiener Messe 27.09.1941 Wiener Messe reverse.jpeg 27.09.1941 Wiener Messe reverse.jpeg 1/1 Postcard depicting the Wiener Messe south hall of the technical exhibition centre. Featuring a 6 Pf postage stamp (Mi.769) first issued on 8th March 1941 on the occasion of the Viennese Spring Fair (the stamp depicts the building on the postcard). Ref: 27.09.1941 Wiener Messe Viennese Trade Fair The first Vienna trade fair opened on 11th September 1921 after just four months of planning with the aim of leading Austria out of economic isolation after the First World War. The exhibitions (which were not open to the public) were spread across several locations in Vienna and had as their model the Messe Frankfurt, which had been relaunched three years previously. The largest area included parts of the site of the Vienna World Exhibition of 1873 in the Prater. The central building was the rotunda and its open spaces designed by John Scott Russell for the World Exhibition (which was always unsuitable for a trade fair and fell into ruins in 1921). Other venues were the Hofstallungen , the Stiftskaserne (paper fair) and the Handelsakademie (medical and surgical instruments). In the years that followed, the rotunda was used for numerous exhibitions and events. From 1921 onwards, the Vienna Trade Fair (spring fair, autumn fair) was held twice a year. As early as 1923, Wiener Messe AG received the irrevocable state award, which allowed it to permanently use the federal coat of arms in business transactions. Postcard depicting the Rotundengelände of the Wien er Messe. Sent by a member of the SS. Ref: 14.03.1940 After the fire in the Rotunda in 1937 and the 'annexation' to the National Socialist Third Reich, Vienna as a trade fair location became increasingly less important and the Vienna Trade Fair was finally closed in 1942. During the Second World War, the remaining buildings and the surrounding exhibition grounds were largely destroyed. Source: Wikipedia Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page
12th January 1941 Mi.P241 1/1 Mi.P241. Semi-official postal stationery issued for Day of the Postage Stamp, 1941, with imprint 6 Pf Hindenburg medallion. Ordered by the K.d.F. Philatelists Association. the surcharge on card was for K.d.F. funds. Special cancellations produced were used in 52 cities. Stamp Day Postal Stationery Wiener Klapperpost Clapper Post, or Klapperpost in German, was an urban postal service in Vienna, the capital of Austria, and in some of the country's other cities, that began in 1772. Its name refers to a clapper (a type of rattle) with which mail carriers announced their arrival. In Vienna, it existed for more than ten years. Source: Wikipedia Official postal stationery (Mi.P241) without 6 Pf Hindenburg medallion imprint but with inscription 'Sondermarke zum Tag der Briefmarke 1941' (Special stamp for Stamp Day 1941) and Mi.762. Note: Without vertical sales text. Ref: 12.01.1941 - 32/21 Unused with commemorative cancel, postal stationery (Mi.P3) with imprint 6 Pf Hindenburg medallion overprinted with 'Lothringen'. Ref: 12.01.1941 Official postal stationery (Mi.P241) with 'Tag der Briefmarke 1943' overprinted beneath the image. Without vertical sales text. Ref: 10.01.1943 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page