1st April 1940 Luftgaupostamt Example of a Vorbindezettel (Pre-tie label), imprint 'Fp 4 zu 12 Din A3'. Featuring a 'Frankfurt (Main)/ a/ Luftgaupostamt' cancellation. Sent from FPN 31554 (Regimentsstab u. Nachrichten-Zug Flak-Regiment 38). Ref: 01.04.1940, MFP4/52 The Luftgaupostämter were subordinate to the 'Deutsche Feldpost' and directed postal traffic to and from Luftwaffe offices and units. The postmarks used there were generally only used internally and are very rare. They also appear on parcel cards of the service post. Loose translation from MFP Variations Luftgaupostämter - 'Frankfurt (Main)/ a/ Luftgaupostamt' cancellation on a Vorbindezettel. Ref: 01.04.1940, MFB4/52 Luftgaupostämter - 'Hamburg/ b/ Luftgaupostamt' cancellation on a Vorbindezettel. Ref: 10.12.1940 - 32/1, MFB5/52 Also see 19.01.1940 - 30/34 - FPN 31554 (Berlin PSST cancel) 30/77 - 'Luftgaupostamt Munchen 2' hand-stamp to reverse of envelope - Also see 02.12.1940 - 30/89 hand-stamp briefstempel bearing 'Luftgaupostamt Munchen 2' name. 32/14 - 'Luftgaupostamt Hamburg 1' hand-stamp briefstempel. Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

31st March 1940 Mi.38-41 Bohemia and Moravia Personalised envelope (blind embossed) sent from a notary in Tabor to a correspondent in Sedlci. Featuring a 1.20 K definitive postage stamp (Mi.41) tied with 'Viktoria' cancel from Tabor. Also featuring a 'Viktoria' duel language propaganda hand-stamp. Ref: 04.08.1941 - 2/33 Mi.38 - 41 Bohemia and Moravia definitives: Linden twig (with fruit) and scenery Mi.38 (10th June). Ref: 15.11.1940 - 4/57 Mi.38 ZW. Ref: 12.12.1941 - 15/61 Mi.39 (31st March) Ref: 07.09.1940 Mi.40 (29th June) Ref:17.01.1941 Mi.41 (10th June) Ref: 07.09.1940 Mi.41 Pl.-St. single star (10th June). Ref: 10.03.1941 17/76 Mi.41 Pl.-St. three star (10th June). Ref: 24.101.942 - 17/81 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

17th July 1940 Narodni Dum Mi.33 Cover featuring stamps Mi.22 and Mi.33. Ref: 17.07.1940 - 9/25 link to details of these stamps

6th October 1940 Fascist Confederation of Agricultural Workers of Modena See 06.10.1940 - 30/68 'Confederazione Fascista Lavoratori Agricoltura Unione di Modena' Fascist Confederation of Agricultural Workers of Modena The relationship between the Fascist movement and those who controlled the agrarian economy, the so-called agrarian class, played an important role in the rise of Fascism. During the tensions of the Bienno Rosso, by the end of 1920, landowners in northern and central Italy wanted to eliminate the influence of peasant leagues, rural cooperatives, and widespread socialist control over local governments. In 1921 and 1922, they feared that the socialist left and the nascent Communist Party might rebound if the pressure were eased. The Fascists received financial and logistical support from landowners and military authorities to conduct punitive expeditions against the Socialists, while promising the agrarian and industrial elites not to alter the status quo of the agricultural sector, but only the distribution of political power. The Fascist movement had two main objectives in the Italian countryside: to attract sharecroppers and colonists eager to obtain land individually, and to destroy the power of trade union organizations such as the chambers of labor and the Federterra. By the end of 1921, the Fascists had conducted numerous violent actions, including invasions, looting, burning, and forced dissolutions of cooperatives and consumer organizations. Many Socialist leaders were attacked or killed by Fascist squads. Rural fascism was highly organised and uncompromising, but it managed to prevail thanks to the complicity of some local government bodies and the police. Furthermore, the maximalist socialists, despite their revolutionary declarations, were unable to effectively oppose the fascists, nor did they consider the opportunity to seek the support of sharecroppers, tenant farmers and small farmers in central and northern Italy, who instead often supported the fascist movement or distanced themselves from Catholic associations. With the rise of fascism to power, fascist agricultural policies mainly benefited large landowners and agri-food companies in Northern Italy, eliminating the threat of socialist peasant leagues. After the consolidation of the regime, the relationship with the agrarian world remained crucial. Fascist peasant trade unions were weak compared to agrarian associations. Rural fascism also found support among small landowners and tenant farmers who resented socialist influence, while in the provinces with strong socialist organizations (especially in the North) fascist repression was particularly vigorous. In 1923 the government repealed the laws that in 1919 had introduced the first social security measures for agricultural workers. Source: Wikipedia (2026) Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

15th July 1940 Orléans See 15.07.1940 - 23/100 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

11th May 1940 Baumburg See 11.05.1940 - 23/80 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Mi.14-39 (08.03. - 18.03.1940) Polish stamps with black overprint Mi.14-39 General Government Mi.14 - Mi.39 Polish stamps with black 'General Gouvernement' overprint. (8th & 18th March 1940) Mi.14 - Mi.15 (Field Marshall Edward Śmigty-Rydz) Mi.14 (18th March) - 24 Gr on 25 Gr (Mi.319) Mi.15 (8th March) - 55 Gr on 25 Gr (Mi.320) Mi.16 (President Ignacy Moscicki) Mi.16 (8th March) - 40 Gr on 30 Gr (Mi.325) Mi.17 - Mi.29 (Anniversary of the Republic of Poland) Mi.17 (8th March) - 2 Gr on 5 Gr (Mi.331) Mi.18 (8th March) - 4Gr on 5Gr (Mi.331). Ref: 20.04.1940 Mi.19 (18th March) - 6 Gr on 10 Gr (Mi.332) Mi.20 (8th March) - 8 Gr on 10 Gr (Mi.332) Mi.21 (8th March) - 10 Gr on 10 Gr (Mi.332) Mi.22 (18th March) - 24Gr on 25Gr - (Mi.335). Ref: 16.05.1940 - 3/2 Mi.23 (8th March) - 30 Gr on 30 Gr (Mi.336) Mi.24 (8th March) - 50 Gr on 50 Gr (Mi.338) Mi.25 (8th March) - 60 Gr on 55 Gr (Mi.339) Mi.26 (8th March) - 80 Gr on 75 Gr (Mi.340) Mi.27 (8th March) - 1 Zt on 1 Zt (Mi.341) Mi.28 (8th March) - 2 Zt on 2 Zt (Mi.342) Mi.29 (8th March) - 3 Zt on 3 Zt (Mi.343) Mi.30 - 32 (Winter Welfare) Mi.30 (8th March) 30 Gr on 5+5 Gr (Mi.348). Ref: 25.03.1940 - 23/59 Mi.31 (18th March) - 40 Gr on 25+10 Gr (Mi.349) Mi.32 (8th March) - 1 Zt on 55+15 Gr (Mi.350) Mi.33 - Mi.34 (Queen Jadwiga and King Jagiello of Lithuania) Mi.33 I (8th March) - 12 Gr on 15 Gr (Mi.355) - main printing - 1.5mm spacing between denomination and 'General-'. Ref: 15.09.1941 Mi.33 II (8th March) - 12 Gr on 15 Gr (Mi.355) - first printing - 0.75mm spacing between denomination and 'General-'. Ref: 15.09.1941 Mi.34 (8th March) - 16 Gr on 15 Gr (Mi.355) Mi.35 - 39 (Postage due stamps from Poland) Mi.35 (18th March) - 50 Gr on 20 Gr (Mi.P95) Mi.36 (18th March) - 50 Gr on 25 Gr (Mi.P96) Mi.37 (18th March) - 50 Gr on 30 Gr (Mi.P97) Mi.38 (18th March) - 50 Gr on 50 Gr (Mi.P98) Mi.39 (18th March) - 50 Gr on 1 Zt (Mi.P99) Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

5th November 1940

28th August 1940 Bau Bataillon 4-XI Official cover sent from Luftwaffe Bau Bataillon 4/XI at Bockhorn with a typewritten reply to a correspondent who has previously requested that Flieger (Flg. = Private) Bratherig be given leave. the request is denied. Whilst there may be no connection, it is to be noted that an R. Bratherig was killed in his Ju 52 near the Hague on 10th May 1940. ref: 28.08.1940 The correspondence denying a request for leave 'Reading' the abbreviated address in the upper left corner: 2./ - 2nd Company Lw, B.batl. - Luftwaffe, Bau Bataillon (Construction) 4/XI - 4th Battalion/ Luftgau XI Notes: 4th Battalion formed in Summer 1940 with 3 companies. Disbanded Summer 1943. Feldpost numbers 01588 and 02344 Luftwaffe construction units were established in 1939 from Reichsarbeitsdienst units transferred to the Luftwaffe, and reinforced with technically competent older conscripts, later also with prisoners of war and foreign volunteers (Hiwis). The main task was the construction and maintenance of military air bases. In 1944 the bulk of the construction units were transferred to the Organization Todt ; those remaining under Luftwaffe control becoming Luftwaffe pioneers. Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

24th December 1940 Dachshunde (FSD) Official cover for the 'Fachschaft für Dachshunde e.V.' sent to the Office of the Public Prosecutor in Düsseldorf. Ref: 24.12.1940 - 14/73 Fachschaft für Dachshunde e.V. In 1906, the Teckel Club joined the umbrella organisation 'Cartel of special clubs for hunting and working dogs that kept studbooks' founded in Frankfurt am Main, which from 1925 became the 'German Cartel for Dogs' (DKH). As the second German representative, alongside the delegate Commission (DC), the cartel in Paris was a founding member of the Fédération Cynologique Internationale (FCI ) in 1911. Due to the political-cultural synchronisation from 1933, the DC and the DKH as well as the 'Association of Associations for the Testing of Working Dogs for Hunting' (JGV, later JGHV), which was split off from the DC in 1899, were dissolved and became the 'Reich Association for the German' with all other dog breeding clubs. The Teckel Club was also dissolved in 1935 and 3 associations kept family registers for Teckels: the DC, the Teckel-Club and the Nutzckel-Club. There were also 3 clubs that kept breeding registers for dachshunds: the rabbit dachshund club, the club for long-haired dachshunds (which, according to the assumption at the time, developed through cross-breeding with quail dogs) and the club for rough-haired dachshunds (which, in particular, through cross-breeding Wire-haired Pinscher (Schnauzer) and Dandie Dinmont Terrier emerged). With the formation of the 'Fachschaft für Dachshunde eV' (FSD), the organisational plurality was ended and the testing and breeding system was centralised. The FSD was subordinate to the RDH, and from 1937 to the 'Reichsbund Deutsche Jägerschaft' (RDJ). However, club life came to a standstill in 1939 due to a ban on gatherings. After the RDH and RDJ were dissolved in 1945, the exhibition, testing and breeding system for Dachshunds was reorganised. Source: www-dtk--nord-de (loose translation) Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Mi.55-61 (20.11.1940/1941) B&M definitives: Linden & scenery Mi.55-61 Bohemia and Moravia Parcel card for a package sent from Prague to Göggingen in Germany. Featuring the lesser seen 20 K postage stamp (Mi.61). Ref: 02.01.1942 - 15/64 Mi.55 - 61 Bohemia and Moravia definitive stamps: Linden twig (with fruit) and scenery Mi.55 ZW ndgz (gutter not perforated). Ref: 12.12.1941 - 15/61 Mi.57 (a or b? Nov.1940) LS. Attached field - vertical pair. Ref: 15.06.1942 - 10/57 Mi.57 b Pl.St. (margin piece with 2 plate stars. Also with attached horizontal blank field. Ref: 08.06.1942 - 9/32 Mi.58 (Nov.1940). Ref: 28.06.1941 - 15/63 Mi.59 (8 K) - see 35/50 (Block of 3 + blank field - Mi.59LS & LW) Mi.60 (Nov.1940). Ref: 28.06.1941 - 15/63 Mi.61 (Nov.1940). Ref: 02.01.1942 - 15/64 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

24th June 1940 Adler 4.40 See 24.06.1940 - 23/93, 10.12.1940 - 32/2 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page