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7th August 1941 Hinterzarten Postcard depicting a view of Hinterzarten. Ref: 07.08.1941 Hinterzarten Hinterzarten is a resort village in the Black Forest, located in the southwest of the state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Although Hinterzarten is mostly famous for its ski jumping, it has many other tourist attractions. Vignette extolling the virtues of Hinterzarten - 'Air, Sun, Water'. Ref: 14.11.1947 - 16/38 The Birklehof in Hinterzarten, an elite boarding school, was converted into a state reformatory during the Nazi era. Despite this, the students were largely spared from the Gleichschaltung . [ The Nazi term Gleichschaltung or 'coordination' was the process of Nazification by which Adolf Hitler successively established a system of totalitarian control and coordination over all aspects of German society 'from the economy and trade associations to the media, culture and education'. Although the Weimar Constitution remained nominally in effect until Germany's surrender following World War II, near total Nazification had been secured by the 1935 resolutions approved during the Nuremberg Rally, when the symbols of the Nazi Party and the state were fused and German Jews were deprived of their citizenship. The tenets of Gleichschaltung also applied to territories occupied by the Nazis. ] Source: Wikipedia & Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek Postcard depicting a view of Hinterzarten. Ref: 23.10.1941 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page
1st September 1941 MHB 51 Postcard sent from Grein to Vienna, featuring postage stamps from MHB 51 (most likely from booklet H-pane 98, with damaged/cut upper and lower edges) and including stamp sequences W89, S211, and S171. Ref: 01.09.1941 - 36/31 Stamp sequences from booklet sheet MHB 51 Note that booklet sheet MHB 51 contains four different value stamps (plus two slogan labels). The left section features the 1 Pf (Mi.512) and 4 Pf (Mi.514), together with label A17. Whilst the right section contains the 5 Pf (Mi.515) and 6 Pf (Mi.516), together with label A14. The two sections are separated by two gutters with vertical lined ladders. MHB 51 - left section MHB 51 - central gutters KZ36 (Mi.515+Z+Z+Mi.516) from MHB 51. Ref: 23.10.1940 - 15/71 MHB 51 - right section Stamp sequence taken from the right portion of sheet MHB 51 (A14+Mi.515+Mi.515+Mi.516). Ref: 24.09.1943 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page
Mi.779 (20.06.1941) German Derby Mi.779 German Derby 'Doppelbrief' cover featuring Mi.779. Ref: 29.06.1941 - 34/18 SEE SOUVENIR SHEET AT 17/84 (SSA53/B) Mi.779 Grand German prize for three year olds (German Derby) for the blue ribbon Mi.779. Ref: 22.06.1941 Special cancellation for the event (JB:Hamburg114/358). Ref: 22.06.1941 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page
7th April 1941 Rudolph Lipus 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
2nd October 1941 Liedtke and Tordy Ross-Verlag postcard depicting actor Harry Liedtke (1882-1945). Ref:02.10.1941 Ross-Verlag postcard depicting actress Christa Tordy (1904-1945). Ref: 3/100 From Wikipedia: On 28th April 1945 Liedtke was killed by Red Army soldiers in his house at Bad Saarow-Pieskow east of Berlin together with his wife Christa Tordy. While attempting to save Tordy from being raped and murdered, he died after either being smashed on the head with a beer bottle, or after being clubbed to death. Prior to their murder, the couple had attempted suicide. Tordy and Liedtke's bodies were exhumed in October 1948 and they were buried at Waldfriedhof Saarow-Pieskow Cemetery. Upon Liedtke's ex-wife Käthe Dorsch's death in 1957, she was buried alongside the two. Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page
2nd August 1941 Schutzpolizei von Imhoff Large envelope sent from the Schutzpolizei Dienstabteilung in Dillingen to Stabsoffizier Herr Oberstleutnant von Imhoff in Ausburg. Ref: 02.08.1941 - 15/83 Schutzpolizei The Schutzpolizei des Reiches or the Schupo was the state protection police of Nazi Germany and a branch of the Ordnungspolizei . Schutzpolizei is the German name for a uniformed police force. The Schutzpolizei des Reiches was the uniformed police of most cities and large towns. State police departments were in charge of protection police, Kripo criminal investigation divisions ( Kriminalpolizei ), and administrative police. The state protection police comprised a patrol branch, barracked police, traffic police, water police, mounted police, police communications units, and police aviation. Policemen were required to have previous military service, good physical and mental health, Aryan descent and membership in the Nazi Party. Source: Wikipedia von Imhoff The recipient of the correspondence appears to be Sigmund von Imhoff but this cannot be for certain and further research is required. Sigmund von Imhoff (1881-1967) was a Generalmajor in the Luftwaffe during World War II. Wilhelm Maria Sigmund Heinrich, Freiherr von Imhoff, was born a member of the Imhoff family in Metz, Lorraine, on 30th June 1881. His father, Christoph Gustav Karl Sigmund was an officer at Metz, a border town of the German Empire. Von Imhoff served as officer in the German Army during the First World War. After the War, von Imhoff served as officer in the Landespolizei Freistaates of Bayern, the Bavarian police. On 3rd April 1933, Promoted to Oberstleutnant , lieutenant colonel. Sigmund von Imhoff was later seconded to the Luftwaffe , with the rank of Generalmajor. Wilhelm Maria Sigmund Heinrich, Freiherr von Imhoff, died in Farchant, Oberbayern, on 7th July 1967. Source: Wikipedia Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page
18th September 1941 Bochmann Imst Feldpost letter-sheet (unknown FPN) sent from Imst to Vienna. Featuring JB:Imst1/399. Ref: 18.09.1941 IMST cancellation as featured in the Bochmann catalogues (1952) JB:Imst1/399 - 'Luftkurort in Tirol/ Höhe 830m/ Schemenlaufen'. Ref: 18.09.1941 This cancellation was used from 1939 to 1944 It was the only special cancellation for Imst up to that period. Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page
10th November 1941 Stalag XIII-B Stalag XIII-B, Weiden. Postal Parcel instructions sent to a correspondent in Belgium. According to Mattiello (2003) there were approximately 1,780 Belgian POWs within the camp at this time. Ref: 10.11.1941 Stalag XIII-B Stalag XIII-B opened in 1940 near the town of Weiden in Germany, and housed prisoners of war from many nations: Russia, Great Britain, the U.S., France, Belgium, Poland, Serbia, Spain, and Yugoslavia. At its peak, in April of 1944, the camp held around 35,000 men. Roughly 90% of the men were assigned to work details in the Weiden area. Some worked on farms, others in factories, and some unlucky prisoners were sent to work in nearby coal mines under brutal conditions. Instructions regarding the sending of parcels to POW's at Stalag XIII-B. From a Belgian POW. Ref: 10.11.1941 The Western POW's were kept separate from the large number of Russian prisoners. Stalin hadn't signed the Geneva Convention and the treatment of the Soviet prisoners was appalling. The mortality rate was extremely high from malnutrition and disease. A gruesome consequence: the mayor of Weiden in 1941 asked the commandant of the nearby Flossburg concentration camp for permission to send the dead Russian prisoners to their crematorium, because the town cemetery was getting too full. In 1945, after the Flossburg camp was shut down, 26 Russians were buried in the Weiden cemetery and are still there. All the other POW's buried in the town cemetery have been returned to their own countries. On 16th April 1945, Allied fighter planes attacked a train passing through Weiden; the explosions caused extensive damage to some houses and three of the barracks, and several prisoners were killed. According to one of the Belgian prisoners, the Allies knew the camp was there; one of the pilots flew past and waggled his wings at them, as a friendly gesture to the prisoners. Stalag XIII B was liberated by the American forces on April 22, 1945. Source: uncommon-travel-germany.com (2025) Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page
14th September 1941 Bochmann Hoppegarten Collectors cover featuring Mi.803 (depicting the Brandenburg Gate) issued to commemorate the horse race, 'Grand Prix of the German Capital'. Tied by special postmark JB:Hoppegarten3/395. Note: this cancel was only used on 14th September 1941. Ref: 14.09.1941 - 34/15 HOPPEGARTEN cancellations as featured in the Bochmann catalogues (1952) JB:Hoppegarten2/394 as below but with 'Gro ss er' depicted as 'Gro ß er' JB:Hoppegarten3/395 - 'Grosser Preis der Reichshauptstadt'. Ref: 14.09.1941 - 34/15 Note : JB:Hoppegarten 2 and 3 were only used on the 14th September 1941 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page