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Mi.692-693 (22.04.1939) Mi.692-693 (22.04.1939) Mi.692 1/1 Main image: Mi.692 (Ref: 03.06.1939), secondary image: Mi.693 (Ref: 13.06.1939) Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

17th April 1939 17th April 1939 1/0 17th April 1939 Leutstetten to 27 Queen Square, Bath Dear Madeleine! Many thanks for your long letter and the Easter wishes. I am sorry I can’t return your wishes as it is late now. I had a very nice time staying with a cousin, Countess Therese Preysing. She, or rather her mother has a marvellous castle in Low-Bavaria. Somewhere between Regensburg and Parsau. I am again looking forward to a wedding. Muck and I are going to be bridesmaids. As we shall be wearing the same dresses as at Baby’s wedding, I shall ask Mami to let me have a new evening gown for the soiree. The wedding will be at Nymphenburg Palace, just like Deidi’s. The date is the 6th May. I seem to do nothing except attend weddings the whole year round. Muck and I went skiing up on the mountains near Garmisch-Partenkichen. It was a glorious day with the sun shining, or rather burning. I wish you could have seen us both, we looked like tomatoes. Muck’s nose is peeling off, mine not yet. Did I write to you that Polzer is back in the opera. I am looking forward to seeing him in “Tristan and Isolde”. I hope it is not to long. The last opera I saw was Eugene Onegin by Tchaikowsky, Das Herz by Pfitzner, Wildschutz by Lortzing. I didn’t like “Das Herz”. The music is simply awful. I am looking forward to see Rigaletto, The Girl Of The Golden West and Friedenstag. I saw the film “Kidnapped” and liked it very much. Fondest love Loll Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

Mi.691 (13.04.1939) Mi.691 (13.04.1939) Mi.691 1/1 Mi.691 (Ref: 20.04.1939) Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

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26th March 1939 26th March 1939 1/1 Postcard (sent via feldpost) depicting the Prague Astronomical Clock (Prague Orloj) attached to the old town hall. Ref: 26.03.1939, MFP1P41 Note: The pencil inscription beneath the message text suggests to indicate that the soldier 'Fritz' had fallen ( 'gefallen' ) in September 1939? Link to the location of the Astronomical Clock in Prague further Czechoslovakian occupation feldpost Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

5th April 1939 5th April 1939 1/0 5th April 1939 Sarvar to 27 Queen Square, Bath Dear Madeleine! Thank you very much for your letter. It is frightfully kind of you to invite me for such a long stay with you. I would love to see you again. I can’t promise when and for how long I am coming, as I have not yet got any answers from Mother Burnett and I don’t know what she has fixed up for me. I wish she would answer and say yes or no, it is so boring not to know what’s happening. I hope Mother Burnett is sending a nice girl out soon. If she is not able to find anybody, Mami wants to look for a French or Belgian girl, to improve our French. I have hardly any opportunity to speak French except with Deidi’s husband. Mami is just packing as she is going to Cannes tomorrow. It is a very long journey, 36 hours from here to Cannes. I wish I could go there and see Deidi again. I’m afraid she is only coming in November here. As you see, I am back in Sarvar. I am enjoying myself. The garden is wonderful. All the flowers, especially the roses, are in full bloom. We are eating heaps of cherries and strawberry’s. It is very agreeable to have a big garden with heaps of fruits and flowers and a tennis court. I personally don’t like tennis very much, besides I am a very bad player. I enjoy much more riding every morning. This year I have got a very nice horse, dark brown and very tall. It has got very agreeable movements and can go faster than any of the others. I am glad we got nice weather at last. The whole May was rainy and cold. I have taken up drawing and water sketching, but until now haven’t made any nice picture. I am embroidering and knitting and playing the gramophone. My favourite record for the moment is “Goodnight, Angel” and “There’s A New Moon Over The Old Mill”. Yesterday we saw Sonja Henie and Tyrone Power in a film. The story was very stupid but Henie’s skating wonderful. Next week we are going to see “The Prisoner Of Zenda”. Films come out here very late, but if they come at all, I am enjoying them just as much. The last English film I saw in Munich was “The Drum” which I enjoyed very much. The “shots” were very beautiful and the story as exciting as the “Bengal Lancers”. Forgive for not writing sooner, but I wanted to tell you something definite about my English plans. Why doesn’t Mother Burnett write, I wonder? Fondest love and many thanks for your kind invitation. Loll Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

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14th March 1939 14th March 1939 1/0 15th March 1939 Leutstetten to 27, Queens Square, Bath Dear Madeleine! Many thanks for your letter. Even the German part was quite well written, only once or twice you dropped a word or words didn’t come in the right order. But I’m afraid my English isn’t very correct either, so don’t worry, the principal thing is that we understand each other. Muck has a cold, mine is just going away. Ludwig’s leg is still thickly bandaged, but he is able to walk for half an hour already. He has to go to Munich every second or third day to have his leg dressed freshly. Yesterday I was at the opera again and saw the opera The Fair at Sorochintzi. It is by Mussorgsky, a Russian who is famous for Boris Godounow. The music is quite nice. The second part of the evening was filled by “The Moon” a new opera which has just come out. It is the most stupid thing one can possibly see as an opera. I haven’t seen the tenor Polzer lately. In January I read in the paper that he was ill. He hasn’t sung in Munich since then. Maybe he has gone to Dresden. I am very sorry, because he was so good looking and thin and I liked him very much. Did you really go to London only for one day? I hope you were able to fix everything with your people and that you will go to college in September. What are you going to learn? It is snowing since a week. I have taken up skiing again. It seems so funny being back in winter when we had primroses and snowdrops and some other flowers around here. Baby’s name and address is: I.K & K.H Frau/ Erz herzogim Dorothee von Habsburg-Lothringen/ Achberg/ Post Esseratsweiler/ Bei Lindau im Bodensee/ Germany. I am rather upset by the politic. I do hope we are not running into another war. I saw a marvellous ballet, “The Devil in the Village”. It was danced by Jugoslavians. It was the best ballet performance I have seen yet. Much love. Loll Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

21st March 1939 21st March 1939 21.03.1939 Holesov.jpeg 21.03.1939 Holesov.jpeg 1/1 Postcard sent through the feldpost service to an address in Osnabrück. The photograph depicting the town of Holešov in Bohemia & Moravia. A 'Vorläufer' postage stamp: The tolerated use of a Czech stamp (Mi.349) following the creation of the Protectorate. Ref: 21.03.1939 Holešov Under the Nazi occupation, 200 Jewish families were deported from Holesov to extermination camps, with almost no survivors returning to the town. The 'New Synagogue', built in 1893, was torched and destroyed by the Nazi occupiers in 1941-42. The synagogue appurtenances were later transferred to the Central Jewish Museum in Prague. After World War II a small community was reestablished, affiliated to the Kyjov community. The Jewish quarter was restored, including the cemetery and the old synagogue, which from 1964 housed a museum of Moravian Jewry, a branch of the Jewish State Museum in Prague. Community records, ḥevra kaddisha statutes, and other documents covering the years from 1653 to 1914 were preserved in the National Library in Jerusalem and in the Bodleian Library in Oxford. Johanan b. Isaac, rabbi of the Hambro Synagogue of the London Ashkenazi community at the beginning of the 18th century, was a native of Holesov, as was Gerson Wolf, the historian. Geni.com Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

10th March 1939 JB: Hahnenklee 10th March 1939 JB: Hahnenklee 1/0 See 10.03.1939 - 22/92 - JB:Hahnenklee3/340 Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page

18th March 1939 FPN 111569 18th March 1939 FPN 111569 Postcard 'Anlage 23' , notification of a new feldpost number. Postcard 'Anlage 23' , notification of a new feldpost number. Postcard 'Anlage 23' , notification of a new feldpost number. 1/1 Postcard 'Anlage 23' , notification of a new feldpost number. 28mm cancellation, letter 'c'. Ref: 18.03.1939, MFP1P41 Subsequent feldpost sent by Ernst (?) to Fräulein Erna Reiner. Possibly sent following the deployment of troops into Czechoslovakia. 28mm cancellation, letter 'b'. Ref: 21.03.1939, MFP1P41 Reverse further Czechoslovakian occupation feldpost Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page