Cover sent from the 'Polizeiamt der Stadt Bayreuth' featuring a 'POL' perfin on Mi.633. Ref: 08.10.1936 - 10/21 8th October 1936 1/1 Cover sent from the 'Polizeiamt der Stadt Bayreuth' featuring a 'POL' perfin on Mi.633. Ref: 08.10.1936 - 10/21 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

12th January 1940 'POST AUX ARMEES' 12.01.1940 French feldpost reverse.jpeg 12.01.1940 French feldpost reverse.jpeg 1/1 French pre-war cover with 'POSTE AUX ARMEES' date cancellation and official hand-stamp. Ref: 12.01.1940 POSTE AUX ARMEES French armed forces post office The French army post office in 1939 had been shaped by the organisation put in place during the Great War, then by the successive reforms between the two wars: 1914 : establishment of postal sectors (numbers identifying a military postal office serving units). 1924 : application of the law of separation between postal functions and treasury functions of the army post (law of 1921). This reform created the army post office as it would be in 1939. 1940 : introduction of the 5-digit postal sector. It was the last major reform before the Armistice of June 1940. Source: gallica.bnf.fr Upon mobilisation, the organisation of post to the armies in times of war is activated. It is structured around the following main elements: Military central offices , responsible for collecting and sorting mail to and from the armies. They are made up of civilians from the post administration seconded to the military post. They are the link between the border offices (for the front postal sectors), the garrison postal sectors and the civil post office. Postal sectors , military postal offices collecting and distributing mail from soldiers of units depending on them. This service is provided by soldiers (wavemasters, officers in charge of mail). Some are fixed geographically and serve units in garrison, others are mobile and serve units in the field (front). Border offices , army sorting centers ensuring the transit of mail between central military offices (rear) and postal sectors in the countryside. Their name refers to the military border separating the rear zone from the front zone. There was a border office per army and the border offices were most often located within a regulatory station (a marshalling yard regulating military rail traffic between the rear and the front). Both border offices and military central offices could postmark mail entrusted directly to them. The army post is under the direction of a central director of the army post attached to the Ministry of War (4th Bureau). However, the establishment of this organisation was not done without difficulty: in the early days, the necessary personnel were not yet in place and the army post office was not able to properly ensure the processing of the immense mass of mail addressed to those mobilised. The difficulties were increased by the fact that the mobilisation had also lost a large part of its staff from the civil postal system and therefore the processing of mail as a whole was disrupted. Shortly before the armistice and the disappearance of the postal sectors, a reform was undertaken in May 1940, aiming to set up a system of 5-digit postal sectors constituting a postal address for each unit. Source: ww2postalhistory-fr Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

3rd June 1939 DJH donation stamps (040 - 057) 3rd June 1939 DJH donation stamps (040 - 057) 1/1 Cover with DJH (Deutschen Jugenherbergswerks) 50 spende donation stamp to reverse. Ref: 03.06.1939 Donation stamps issued for the Reichs House Collection for the Reichs Youth Hostel Recruitment and Donation Day 6th & 7th May 1939 a = perforated white paper, b = rouletted cream paper DJH040a - Nürnberg DJH040b - Nürnberg DJH041a - Wangerooge DJH041b - Wangerooge 50 Pfg Spende - Brown - neither perforated or rouletted . Ref: 03.06.1939, DJH041 DJH042a - Aalen 20 Pfg Spende - Blue - Rouletted . Ref: Prophila40, DJH042b DJH043a - Berchtesgaden 20 Pfg Spende - Blue - Rouletted . Ref: Prophila40, DJH043b DJH044a - Marienburg 20 Pfg Spende - Blue - Rouletted . Ref: 09.06.1939, DJH044b DJH045a - Tecklenburg DJH045b - Tecklenburg DJH046a - Burg a.d. Wuper DJH046b - Burg a.d. Wuper 10 Pfg Spende - Green - Perforated . Ref: 12.05.1939, DJH047a DJH047b - Danzig DJH048a - Demmin DJH048b - Demmin DJH049a - Fulda DJH049b - Fulda DJH050a - Goslar DJH050b - Goslar DJH051a - Gross Iser DJH051b - Gross Iser 10 Pfg Spende - Green - Perforated . Ref: 08.08.1939, DJH052a DJH052b - Hamburg DJH053a - Husum 10 Pfg Spende - Green - Rouletted . Ref: Prophila40, DJH053b DJH054a - Ruhla DJH054b - Ruhla DJH055a - Schardorf DJH055b - Schardorf DJH056a - Tiefensee DJH056b - Tiefensee DJH057a - Titisee DJH057b - Titisee Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

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30th May 1947 JB: Meiningen 30th May 1947 JB: Meiningen 1/1 Commemorative postcard for the 'Kulturtage' in Meiningen 24th May - 1st June 1947 featuring special cancellation JB:Meiningen4/531. Ref: 30.05.1947 - 15/41 MEININGEN cancellations as featured in the Bochmann catalogues (1952) JB:Meiningen4/531 - 'Kulturtage/ 24.5.-1.6.1947'. Ref: 30.05.1947 15/41 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Letter sent by 'Loll' (Princess Eleonore Maria) to Madeleine Pinkerton. Featuring four pages of correspondence. Ref: 22.02.1936 (Geheimes Hausarchiv) 22nd February 1936 Dear Madeleine 1 22.02.1939-princess-page-2.jpeg 22.02.1936-princess-page-4.jpeg 1/4 Letter sent by 'Loll' (Princess Eleonore Maria) to Madeleine Pinkerton. Featuring four pages of correspondence. Ref: 22.02.1936 (Geheimes Hausarchiv) Next: Dear Madeleine 2 22nd February 1936 Leutstetten to 27 Queen Square, Bath Dear Madeleine! Many thanks for your nice post-card. I am quite delighted. Of course I shall be your Valentine, but tell me first what it means. Suppose it means that I am to be your maid, I would like it, only you are not to be cross any day of the year. Shall you be able to be always kind and smiling? I am not I must confess. I am sad there are no more balls and parties because we may not dance till Easter. I wonder if one may dance in England the whole year round? We Catholics may not dance in Advent that is four weeks before Xmas till the 6th of January. Then is Carnival till Shrove Tuesday. There are always balls and parties during Carnival. After that we may not dance till Easter. It is much better not to be allowed to dance the whole year round because then I am much keener about it. People tell me I was a great success, but I wonder if it is really true, because I am not able to dance properly as you may have noticed in Middelkerke. But maybe they liked the awful nonsense I was talking. The other day I had a marvellous time. I was invited for lunch in Munich. There were about thirty people. And at four o’clock we went to see a film called “The Road to Paradies”. It is a rather stupid film, touching, about a little boy and his dog and his friend. We only made nonsense and talked and laughed and when we came out of it, resolved to go to a café. We were only 10 persons, 5 boys, 5 girls. So we went in search of one, talking all singing and laughing. And when we found a café, it was quite empty and we drank tea and made the tea-pots stand in one line, as if they were soldiers, and the servants were shocked. We did not mind it though. And we went home, as we did in Middelkerke, arm in arm, and saying: right-left, right-left. It was huge fun. Now I must tell you I try to be useful. Muck, Deidi & I are having sewing lessons. Until now we only leant how to draw and cut a blouse. We go to Munich twice a week and have to work for three hours. Maybe I am going to be a good Valentine yet “cut out for house-keeping”. We are all very sorry because out Fraulein died. We all loved her and she was here for nine years. She had the flu and heart weakness, and was very old besides. We had snow and went skiing, but only for three days because the snow melted so soon. Yesterday it snowed again but today it is warm & raining and it melted away again. I never saw such an ugly, warm winter here. I love snow and ice and a very hot summer. But I can’t stand rain and wind & mist. Ten days ago we went to Garmisch with Ludwig and some friends and we came down the Kreuzeck, a marvellous mountain for skiing because there is a railway going up. It is rather high and Muck and I needed 1 hour & 20 minutes to come down. It was the second day and I was skiing and although I did not break any bone, I was very stiff the next day and could hardly move. Much love to you and Mary Loll [Princess Eleonore Maria] The correspondence was accompanied with an unused postcard depicting Schloß Leutstetten, the residence in which the letter was written. Schloß Leutstetten Leutstetten Castle is located in Leutstetten, not far from Starnberg, on a hill above the Leutstettener Moos. The Renaissance -style complex includes a small, fenced-in park. The castle and park are not open to the public. Hans Urmiller , a member of a Bavarian patrician family, ducal councillor and chamberlain of Duke Albert V, had the castle built around 1552. In 1833, Ludwig, Prince of Oettingen-Wallerstein, came into possession of the castle. In 1850, he passed it on to his son-in-law, Hugo, Count Waldbott of Bassenheim. In 1864, Max August, Baron von Welden, acquired it, and in 1875, he sold it to Prince Ludwig of Bavaria, later King Ludwig III. Ludwig III expanded the farm belonging to the castle into a model estate. By 1898 he had a land consolidation carried out in order to consolidate the previously scattered holdings. He acquired further land, such as the lower mill in the Würmtal in 1890, the Rieden estate in 1904 and the Petersbrunn estate and bath in 1909. In 1915 he brought eight mares from the estate of Nádasdy Castle in Sárvár (Hungary) and built up a horse breeding farm, from which today's Isarland stud farm emerged. After Ludwig III died in 1921, Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria inherited Leutstetten. From there he maintained many different contacts with prominent figures of his time. From 1936 to 1938 he had the castle extended laterally according to plans by Carl Sattler. At the start of the Second World War, the National Socialists drove him into exile at Nádasdy Castle. Leutstetten Castle was confiscated and used by the NSDAP functionary Christian Weber, who was responsible for the SS cavalry, among other things, and was known for enriching himself with confiscated goods and maintaining a baroque lifestyle. Towards the end of the war, German refugees from the combat zone on the Saar were housed in the castle. After the end of the war in 1945, the castle was temporarily used as accommodation for people made homeless by the chaos of war. Among them was the sculptor Arno Breker, who had to leave his studios in Wriezen and Jäckelsbruch in the Oderbruch because of the approach of the Red Army. Leutstetten Castle was returned to the House of Wittelsbach and has remained in the family's possession ever since. Rupprecht of Bavaria returned here from exile in Florence. Ludwig Karl Maria of Bavaria brought the breeding horses from Nádasdy Castle to Leutstetten and to the Isarland Stud while fleeing from the Red Army. He lived in the castle until his death in 2008. After the death of his widow Irmingard, the castle has belonged to her son Luitpold Prince of Bavaria since 2010 . Source: Wikipedia Link to further information on this series of correspondence D = 'Diedi' (Princess Maria Elisabeth, 1914 - 2011) M = 'Muck' (Princess Adelgunde Maria, 1917 - 2004) L = 'Loll' (Princess Eleonore Maria, 1918 - 2009) B = 'Baby' (Princess Dorothea Therese, 1920 - 2015) 22.02.1936 L , 28.08.1936 L , 14.09.1936 D , 17.09.1936 L , 17.10.1936 B , 07.11.1936 L , 14.11.1936 B , 04.12.1936 M , 10.12.1936 D , 03.01.1937 L , 03.01.1937 D , 22.01.1937 B , 27.01.1937 D , 03.02.1937 L , 16.03.1937 D , 26.03.1937 B , 11.04.1937 L , 06.05.1937 L , 14.05.1937 B , 09.06.1937 D , 02.07.1937 L , 14.07.1937 D , 19.07.1937 B , 07.08.1937 L , 02.09.1937 L , 01.10.1937 L , 08.10.1937 L , 11.10.1937 L , 17.10.1937 L , 28.10.1937 L , 02.11.1937 D , 20.11.1937 L , 27.11.1937 L , 31.12.1937 L , 27.01.1938 B , 02.02.1938 L , 20.02.1938 L , 26.03.1938 L , 15.04.1938 L , 20.05.1938 L , 27.05.1938 B , 04.06.1938 L , 12.06.1938 L , 24.07.1938 L , 12.08.1938 L , 14.08.1938 M , 30.08.1938 L , 18.09.1938 L , 03.10.1938 L , 18.10.1938 L , 28.12.1938 L , 26.01.1939 L , 14.02.1939 L , 14.03.1939 L , 05.04.1939 L , 17.04.1939 L , 20.07.1939 L , 27.11.1939 L , 03.01.1940 L , 19.03.1940 L Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

31st July 1942 Anti-Tank Weapons 31.07.1941 PAK 36 reverse.jpeg 31.07.1941 PAK 36 reverse.jpeg 1/1 Postcard (sent via feldpost) depicting a 3.7cm Pak 36 anti-tank gun with caption 'Practice shooting with the anti-tank gun'. Postcard imprint 'Wehrmacht-Bildserie 288/57'. Ref: 31.07.1941 Other anti-tank weapons: PAK 36 , The 3.7cm Pak 36 Contact Brief History to inform us of additonal information regarding this page

12th February 1939 Barlog 1481 & 8715 12th February 1939 Barlog 1481 & 8715 1/1 Barlog cartoon postcard depicting a soldier standing the canteen serving hatch. Bestell-Nr.1481. Ref:12.01.1939 The caption reads: Translation required VARIATION Bestell-Nr. 8715. Identical image and caption text. Ref: 09.12.1940 For further information on the Barlog cartoon variations please contact Brief History using the link below Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regrding this page

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3rd February 1937 3rd February 1937 1/0 3rd February 1937 Leutstetten to 27 Queen Square, Bath Dear Madeleine, Thank you so much for your nice letter. We are O.K. I have a party nearly every day and I enjoy it very much. You see they do give real balls here. It is great. Did you ever go to a real ball? Where one is asked to go to supper with a gentleman? And before and after supper one dances a lot. And then there is a Cotillion. It is after the supper that a gentleman comes as asked one for the Cotillion dance. Then one sits down with him and there are funny tricks one is asked to do. Example: six girls stand up in line and each has got a spoon. And they are to run through the hall and catch a potato on that spoon and run back and put the potato into a kettle. The winner gets a prize, or a girl stands at one end of the room and has to throw an orange to someone of the six gentlemen opposite her and who catches the orange is to dance with her. There are flowers brought in and each gentleman gets flowers to give to his favourite girls and the girls get (illustrated above) that are on a pin which they are to give to the same gentlemen. And between, one dances. The flowers and bows are always the favourite things. I had a ball invitation on Saturday, Sunday, Monday, today again and on Friday. On Saturday we shall give a big tea-party and dancing for about hundred people. Muck and I are rather excited, because we are so shy and don’t know what to do. The ball generally lasts till 4 o’clock in the morning, so we sleep till noon. In the afternoon we go for short walks. There is no skating or ice hockey now, it is too warm and there is water everywhere. How I long for snow. Papa has got a dachshund, a young one since yesterday. It sits by my side and howls, because Papa is gone and she loves him so much already. I can’t think with that howling dog near me. Baby is busy learning with her Fraulein. She is too young to go to parties yet. Ludwig is quite alright again. Only his eye is still a little red from his fall. He hates going to parties. We are rather sorry for it. Deidi did not yet write. Ludwig is going back to Sarvar, to Hungary next week maybe. I am reading Daisy Chain by Mrs Younge. It is very tedious and long and old fashioned. I am quite out of my senses by that howling dog. Besides I am sleepy from all these parties. But they are too nice and I enjoy them very much. Of course I invite you to my wedding only I am afraid I never will be married. I cant think of my being married and having children, could you? I should prove to be a very bad housewife as I am not able to cook or sew or do anything. Baby sometimes writes to Mr Lambert and gets photos and long and funny letters from him. I cant think of anything worth while writing so I say goodbye! Heaps of love from Loll P.S. Please give my love to Mary. I should like to hear from her. Love for ever Loll P.S.2. Baby thanks very much for the dates it was she who asked for them, and she sends her love too. Loll Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page