28th July 1940 Krieger Ehrenmal Bad Pyrmont See 28.07.1940 - 23/101 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

8th May 1940 Mi.P4 See 08.05.1940 (Mi.P4/08) Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

10th December 1940 Stalag VI-A Stalag VI-A See 15.01.1944 - 19/86 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

6th October 1940 Bochmann Aussig Official postcard of the Reichskolonialbund, Berlin, depicting the shore-line at Dar es Salaam. Featuring special cancellation JB:Aussig2/52. Ref: 06.10.1940 AUSSIG cancellations as featured in the Bochmann catalogues (1952) JB:Aussig2/52 - 'Mitteldeutsche Kolonialschau/ 28.9.-13.10.1940'. Ref: 06.10.1940 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

28th July 1940 Brown Ribbon of Germany 1940 Cover sent from Munich to Chemnitz. Featuring Mi.747 (commemorating the brown ribbon of Germany horserace). Also featuring two special cancellations for the event (JB:Munich146 - three horse running left to right, and JB:Munich147 - four horses running right to left). Ref: 28.07.1940 - 14/33 (two cancels). Reverse of a similar cover, also featuring Mi.747 and sent to the same address, including to the reverse a hand-stamped ' "KdF" Briefmarken Sammelgruppe Essen' (unlike the typewritten example). Ref: 28.07.1940 - 14/33 (single cancel) Contact Brief History to inform us of additonal information regarding this page

31st August 1940 Oflag II-A Oflag II-A See 31.08.1940 - 30/51 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

2nd March 1940

2nd December 1940 Iran censor tape BV3.1 54r

Propaganda postcard depicting Neville Chamberlain as 'Wert keinen pfennig' (not worth a pfennig). The card was issued on 1st May 1940, just ten days before Chamberlain's resignation as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Issued alongside a similar depiction of Winston Churchill (see link below). Ref: 01.07.1940 1st July 1940 Chamberlain Propaganda postcard depicting Neville Chamberlain as 'Wert keinen pfennig' (not worth a pfennig). The card was issued on 1st May 1940, just ten days before Chamberlain's resignation as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Issued alongside a similar depiction of Winston Churchill (see link below). Ref: 01.07.1940 Alternative imprint of the Chamberlain postcard - the ASHELM logo is less clearly defined, the length of the central horizontal line from top to the bottom of the word ASHELM is 94mm (as opposed to 95mm - the ASHELM logo is larger on the postcard dated 01.07.1940), there are four clear address lines (as opposed to five). Note: This postcard appears to have been altered by being cut short at the foot, thereby not displaying the imprint numbers. Ref: 18.05.1940 only shown here.

26th June 1940 Arandora Star Kriegsgefangenenpost sent from Hamburg to Rudolf Dieze, an internee at The Hayes (Camp 13), in Swanwick, Derbyshire. Ref: 26.06.1940 Also see 05.02.1971 - 26/18 (Wilhelm Solf) National archives: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/results/r?_q=Arandora&_sd=&_ed=&_hb= Postcard depicting the Blue Star Line S.S. Arandora Star at anchor in Malta. Ref: 7/72 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

8th January 1940 MHB 48 Cover sent from Dr. Albrecht Schaefer (1886-1972), theologian and historian, in Böblingen to a correspondent in Stuttgart. Featuring KZ32 (Mi.515+Z+Z+Mi.516) from MHB 48. Ref: 08.01.1940 - 9/49 Stamp sequences from booklet sheet MHB 48 KZ32 (Mi.515+Z+Z+Mi.516) from MHB 48. Ref: 08.01.1940 - 9/49 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

30th July 1940 Front stalag 183-A Chateaubriant Cover sent to a captured French officer being held at Frontstalag 183-A in Chateaubriant. Note to the reverse the expertisation hand-stamp 'HAMMER'. Ref: 03.07.1940 Front Stalag 183-A Chateaubriant There were four camps located at Châteaubriant designated A, B, C and S. These were built by the French to house a possible 75,000 German prisoners-of-war. However, from May 1940 it was Allied soldiers that were imprisoned there. On 14th January 1941 the POWs were conveyed by train to camps in Germany. The four camps at Châteaubriant were then closed. Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page