GERMANY

THE DEFINITIVE ISSUE or 1941

Germany began lhc pract icr of foa turing people on deflnitive Slamp> .,i\h the famoo, Gem"n, series ()f 1926. G<"'''n Preside"1S r~e<.Iri<h Eben .,k) Poul V. Il ioOent"lfg appearro on \he <leti oi' i~. '"'''' of 1928. The Hi n<len"'''g Modall ion "" rio> w"" i ,,"cd in I 932.

In k«ping with ,hi. ronOat .• ncw "" , .. of de r,o i\i,·. "" , mp' v, ., ,,,oed on Aug"" I . 194 1 r .... tiring tt.: dOc"" ... A<Iolr Hi'ler, I! w:n in use r ... >boo! 46 months during ,be peal year> ...r World W" II. Widely u",d in .rc", uDder G<nnan inllueoce, UK' seric, ,.,,' v<ty lim i,ed use (0 io<ema(io>nal <Ie"in,';""._

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HEINER CHEVALIER

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CONYF.NIF.NCE t 'RANKING

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Val""· RM.20.000 We;stu . 49 V.no l'o>lAl F« · RM. 4, 74 uUe, ",te '" 100;.nom 0.24 Pr. + I ..... '.""" 4.00 RM . + 11ondl;"3 roc 0.50 Pr. _ 4.74 RM.

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MONEY ORDERS· (P""","wd,ung)

Amount 2 RM 80 Rpf Money Order fee· 20 Rpr

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Postanweisung •• r 37 :J/Jf 20

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PO~'TAL DOCU MIlI'ITS

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nl. prog ... m. a precursor to the po".1 ,.-iIlg syst.m, allowed worl:." to save 2% of tbeir wages for 16 weel<>, to be used for vAc.>.tjon or perioo. of unemployment.

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INTEIINATIONAI- MAIL - I't>oW "'go.Uation

-_I "'pllooo .. requiro !bar alIl<non to ____ ". _"tri<o ",uot "" -.il<d " III< _ office <»WI1<r. TIl< ...... r ,"\lSI..-" ". oIf.<ial Ni<"'ity <ard (whh ~ph) " tho ''''' of rooli"l".

INTERNATIONAL MAI.L - Postal Regulatio ns

THE NUREMBERG LAWS OF lJJS [no< .... '" "" JIfOI_ oj t __ ... _ I

A system whereby Jews could be poblidy identified went into e ffect o n 15 September, 1935. Thi$ law required special idenlifionion papers, passports, ration cards and other legal documents be marked with the leiter -r (Jude).

A sewnd de<:ree supplementing the Nuremberg laws regarding the change of family names applied 10 the U5C of the mails. The

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DECREE OF 11 AUGUST, 19.13

RSiel. llIve raillig . .Illg der JUGSI; i n Deutschl&nd ilb teil '-lllg 'fande rung (flilfsverein) Berat~sstelle f ur OstpreuBs en , Kbni gsocrs ~r .

Sc honst I'fl8SS 19 Ue cer b l'1 r.&'Irln : 'ii l degf>.rd sera

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stipulated that unless the sender had what was considered a soitable Jewish firsl name, they were compelled to add ~ISRAEL" or -SARA~ as a middle name In

their return address. This law went into affect on 1 January. 1939.

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FOreiS" leiter Rate - Nonh America and South America

Foreign lener ratc ro South America per 20 gram~ - 2~ l'f. Aitmll.il rate to Argcntin~ as of Jalllwy 1\143 per S grams· 90 Pf.

T1t1 ~ IcnCf PI;~ through a Umled States CCOlson office m roure 10 Argcntlna.

13 Cktober 1941 Wkn • St. !Auis. Missoun

Sfamberg I August 1942

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Foreign letter rate to

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Fureign Air Letter Rate - Nonh Americ1l

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Luttpoet nBeh NorJamerike

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ACROSS ENEMY UNES

"'SAROIl'ie" MAIL.

There were ~ trans.-maihng schemes thai openltcd in IJtUtral countries which relayed eom:spondtnct and patkages between Germany, Gtmlan octuJlIoo counlries and All ied countries. One such service opemted OUi of LIsbon and otbtr cities in Portugal for mail to and from octupioo Poland. Postal caros and letters that pru;.sed through this stfVice became known as "Sardine" mail because the messages usually thanked the sender ror the receipl of a patkage containing almonds, figs, sardine!! or other non-perishable rood.

1 April 1942

P<Kcn, Warthallold. Pot.nd -Joio Alvet. R.50 AncnaI.bon. ........ T~ name UI'IoIItrlined ;" ...... tho r«IIm oddraa (Abaen6er)

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forwarded while lhe tirdN inili.o.l, ~AC tic., was • tOr..vdiltj QOI\e coocaini"ll hi,

odd,"-, and oountI)'.

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28 Augull 1943 7..ofi. I.Vola\: PoteII. WlfthrJl!Id. Poland -'0 Firma L..eon ZlWIiIId, R. Alnnllclro Hen:uIau.I.l e. Li>booI, PonUjjll I ~nrbef 1943

lmen>Uiorlal J1Ije

Rq$ ... ed Air Mail lell ... (V pI" . )0 pl . • 30 pf ",,_1

LABOR CAMP MAIL

The military conscription created an extreme soortage of manpower for the industries contributing to the German war machine. One oolution to this problem was to recruit skilled workers from other countries. lbis program was administered by the German Workers Front (OAF).

The other oource of labor were citizens of occupied countries who were "drafted~ to work in German war industrics. 1bese workers went voluntarily, or thcy were rounded up and shipped to labor sites. Housed in sub-almps of K.L Wiemer-Buchenwald, K.L Neuengamme, etc., their wages and Hving conditions were minimal. It was a fine line that separated these workers camp from the concentration camp.

"Guest" workers paid postage at the domestic post card or letter rate. Other postal sen-ices were paid at the international ratc.

Gemciru;chafslagcr OAF - Schweizenbauzen (Camp for lbe Gennan Wor~e .. Front)

Nallcn/Bci. Berlin

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The Schwei7.enhausen camp housed Belgian and French civilians woo worked in German industries. This letter passed through the K61n (code ~C') ccnoors office.

KL WEIMER - BUCHENWALD Sub camp

EISENACII BMW FLUGMOTORENWERKE

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UKRAINIAN LABOR CAMP MAIL

KL NF.UF.NGAMME subo:amps

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Ostarbielernrtt • Easlern Workers Card

Issued for workers from Ihe eastern oounlries German, Russian and Ukrainian languages.

under Gennan influence. Wriuen in Printed al tbe State Mint, Munich.

iS5UC of 1942

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Eastern Worken; Mail

The Ostarbieter card was not evenly distributed \0 post offices. llis situation led to II creative measure as seen below. Two 6 Pf. cards of the air raid slogan series were joined together 10 fabricate the reply paid postcard format. Staples, thread, wire or gummed tape were used to hold these cards together .. , _______ ""=;;:-

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, Owing to acute paper shortages in 1945. these cards

were released for general use within Germany.

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PRISONER OF WAR MAIL

Mo.t mad fi'Ilm l'I ;'oo, .... ,,(W .. dod rn r-Ilrou" "",, OKW ~ $IaUoos. ' l\SIead pow mail "11>~. ,he POW ~ tboIn OWl'" tbrougIo Rm C""", <:hanncI$ ' 0 thbr dooo/,nauOftS Camp .... hont," added thO' COiTeCI po!tIiot for utnIIil """itt.o U ....... of Sooth Afnca ItId Au", .. liI.. RoI ... !If!«tive } J~1y 1942

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Civilian moil I<! C .. rman P.o.w:s Ocld hy the ollie!; JI'L'..ed through the Berlin """""" ume" (~ ~In ,Old nllfuld. via tIr ROO CnM.lhrougb ,,"uual SwilzerLand and !\>nugal. P,O.W, mail pas.-;ed f~ Oc'WOOIl Germany .00 tIr AlIial e'Ull!ll1ils. The aiJmail sun;~ rlll<: I>f 0.40 RM' for row moil became effoc(lve .... 3 July. 1942.

(;PO BoJ 211.

New York , N.Y, was \ho mailing address fur row mail, Camp Ltle, VA was l fC<.~ivin& o.:n .... ..,. for pow .. Mail Wil.' forw:mlcd 10 mHiury installations with ,'amI" for Germ.., POW' ... Many POW', were 1'1 ... ,,'(1 in ~ulw",l centers 10 pmvide clle"" farm Iahor, Particif'ltion in voock rrogr3lm w"' ""lunlary.

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AUSGE1AUSCHT AM: DEC 2\1 1\l4O 11''''~ ""!

The oddre,..,., "'.. TlO longer 4t HW!I<Ville. Te:<a!I In Iale 1944 an ex­chanse of prison<:r> of war woo were no longer of ony value to the war dThrt took place The relu," ot POW'. under Amt1ican corurol began late in the war wilh lheir m(wemer!l back to port areas for "'~Iual relum 10 Europe OIl shiJ" m.., re!urncd WO<IIIded 01 ', 10 the US

CIVILIAN INTERNEE MAIL

Po.IaI .. cs and rfS\lllPons fur " •• too~a. of Wor mail alto IIpphed for nail 10 lbe c:o"liM .nlmxt G.moan Civilians ",too found then>Idves in Allitd ~ .,.be ou.bonl: orwor were inlemcd. uwally for.be duration or,11t war Thi:>to inlernod would hll'" ~ without dtpIomaric StatU. and who WIn unabk. in """" caoe!l unwillinll .• 0 mum .0 Germany when lbe O$lpo<!unily prest!11td iuclr

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CONCENTRATION CAMP MAIL

Correspondence from internees were limited 10 post card or leller. usually in the {onn or a leller sheeL They could send and receive 2 cards or lellers per month. Out going mail usually contained printed or handstamped instructions thai replies be made in Gennan and sct guidelines for what an internee could receive. Postage was paid Ilt the domestic rate by the internee. Mai! was censored by camp pcB(lnnel. International mail passed through a regional censor office.

K. L WEIMER· BUCHENWALD

26-S-1943

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Postkarte

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K.L. AUSCHWITZ - Frauenlager (womens camp)

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5 December 1943

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The Sachscnhausen concentration camp was used to confine political prilOllers. This included those from countries under German innueoce.

Leiter processed by camp censors (camp CCIlliOr'5 stamp "C") and the Hamburg Censors Office (code "I''). Copper sulfate (blue streak) was used to reveal the usc of invisible inla. ',be 24 year old inmate thanks his mother for a sweater, a.sks her to greet his friends, wishes everyone well and states he is in good hulth.

KL THEREISENSTADT

14 August 1944

Postmarked Berlin W62, 22 September 1944 and forwarded to Switzerland via the Munich ccnsors office (code "d")

Mail from Theresienstadt conccntration camp to a foreign address first passed through the Rcichsvercingung (Jewish Council) in Berlin.

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The handstamp instructs that replies (to correspondence) are to be made by postcard, written in Gennan and forwarded through the "Altcstcnrat deT Judcn in Prag" (Counsel of Jewish Elders in Prag).

A concentration camp in a class by it self, Theresienstadt was originally a to ..... n in Czechoslovakia. In Nov., 1941 the town was evacuated and set aside for Jews. The outward impression was that of a resort or 'rest camp" for the wealthy or elderly, with beautiful buildings, banks. movies, theater and concerts. Theresienstadt was the only concentration camp open to inspection by the International Red Cross. In reality. it was just a stop over before ~ventual transport to the death camps of Auschwitz or Birkenau.

POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS - N.S.D.A.l'.

T"" political organization uoo.r ~ leadership of A. llitler was known as The :-iatmnal Socmll't Gemtall Workers Parry (".S .D.A.P.l. aka the NAZI party . The P.ll"fy condUCled ""'eral program, for Ihe «>e ial ",el l being or the G~rrnan citi>.:". One such program was tile

Kraft durch Freud (K.d.F.l (Strength through Joy)

27 July. 1942

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Po,ted ill' [",,"rd the Kdr._Dampfer -I.mz" - Dum'lem, Austria 10 Vienna. Ausbu

11", Kd F OjlN3t«l pa,senser tir>er' ~nd IlV.,,- st."",,"", for German ",0, Len LrutS<" ""p. vi,iled Ilahi< . At l.ntic aoo MednL'fT,,"c.n poll' in tlte l~JO's prior to , .. ootb"",, of World War It RiveT .!Cl1JTk.,.., .... h., the Kdf­Danlpfer "LUll" pcm-ided ell,i"", ....,1 .. Rtuno aoo Oanube. Rj,.", >leamets comi""ed to "P",.le int<> 'hc 1940',

Hitler Youth · Der Jugendfuhrer lier Deutschen Reichs (The Youth leader of the Gennan Reich)

Agencies of the NSDAP (National Socialist Workers Party) did DOl have wartime franking privileges. They were supplied with official " Franchise~ stamp6 and were used when available . .. ________________ ~~~M~I~

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EjnsdlTl~iben I

An H('rm/Frau

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Aufforderung!("Summons")

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Gera .. ,. SO. hi \944 " " " ~ .b ~"'"~< .... ;h ~~_tep,~~~ers ",,. ',_5. ~c~. 1944 ), .. ".- (J,,; b('; a.~elUl Irauae "" 31. Jan. 1944 "., . ., ,~._) f'""·~· '..'.' "~,,-..

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Addressed to Madels (the girl) Helene Krause. She had missed a meeting (roll call) of the Gera Hiller Youth Organization, She: has been instructed to appear 011 6 June 1944 at 3:00 P.M. Failure 10 report wjll resylt in arrest by the police.

Kinderlandverschikung (KLV) - (Children! Evacuation Program)

11 January, 194)

From the KLV lager, RuhpoJdingtObb. to Ernst Rehfeld. director of the National Socialist Teachers League, Weimer.

The Kinderlandverschikung (OtildrellS Evacuation program) was established on 27 SeptemDer, 1940 and administered by IlOO Schirach and the Hitler Youth organization of the National Socialist Workers Party.

The (KLV) organization was a program designed to facilitate vacations into Ihe country side for underprivileged children from urban areas. The largest of the KLV eenters was located in Bohemia and could handle 10,000 residents. These centers provided a curriculum of academics, sports and ideological indoctrination. With the beginning of the allied bombing offeO$ive in 194), the KLV became a program to evacuate all children from cities threatened by air raids. Approximately 4 million people were eventually evacuated into KLV camps located in rul3l areas or Germany and Austria and in areas under Gennan inDucnte in Slovakia, East Prussia, and Bohemia-Monllvia (areas coO$idered at the time not to be endangered) as wen D.$ Denmark. Hungary and Holland.

OIEN,':,'TPOST

The Deuts<;!!es Dienslj>OSt (official postal $Cf\ice) was established to maintain a postal $Crvice for the German Ci,il Administratiom in occupied countries. their personnel and families_ Included "'~e the Toot and Speer Organizations. Labor Recruiting Services, Construction finns ",ith official .ontracts and NSDAP officials_

DIENSTPOn OSLO

Postage rates for Diemtpost mail was set at the dom estic (inland) rate.

L1Bbach

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From Lbe office ofthc Reichkommissar in Oslo

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DIENSTPOSf - BOHEMIA Ind MORAVIA

22 April 1942

..... Oberpoll •• lrat Dr .Artar [ 1 au. e r

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Major Wilhelm Pilka, Prag Dr.Artur Klauser of the Oberoolizearat. Wien XVIII IOlOlOiilO:08CC

Regulations required that the term ~Durch Deinstpost'· be written out on mail and outlined in red That term is missing in this instance.

The Dienstpost provided for 5Ccure delivery of offx:ial correspondence between Major Pilka, who may have been I member of the police or military attached 10 lhe civi l administration of Bohemia-Moravia. and Dr. Klauser of the Wein Police Commission.

OIl:.NS'TJ>rn,i · ADRIA

Package letter Rate for small pacugcs . 60 Rpf.

7 May 1944

Dcut3Chc DienstpOSt Adria - Tries!

'0 Graz (Eggenberg), Austria

DIENSTPO~'T NIEDERLANDE

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"DEUTSCHE DIENSTPOST NIEDERLANDE"

Dienstpostamt Da..,ent&r

Ein"hrelben

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Ncwspapers Printerd Matte r rate to 100 grams· O.IS Pf.

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"DURal DEUTSCHE POST" (via German post)

The Russian stamps (30 kon "" 0.03 Rpf) were used to make up the registration rate of 42 Rpf.

Brest-Litowsk/WerthaJand(Ukraine) to Danzig-Langfuhr

Most mail seen from this area of occupation was forwarded by Dienstpost or the Feldpost, or with stamps overprinted for use in the eastern areas (OstJand) or the Ukraine.

This letter shows an unusual combination of Gennan stamps, without the overprints. used with Russian postage stamps, and the use of a Russian canceller on the Gennan stamps. The general population used Russian stamps overprinted fOf use in these areas.

FELDPOST

Belgium and oa:upied France were under Gennan military admini5tratioo. Gennan government ageocies and firms, and German nationals operating in these areas were pennilled to send and recc:fye mlil through the Gennan Fddpost sioce no other German postal servia: was available (Dienstpost). Authorization to use the Fddpost was required. Free franking was not allowed but po6lage Willi paid at the domestic: rate. Mail was limited to cards, leller1 and packages up to 1000 grams. Penonal mail could not be registered.

Durch die deutsche FELDPOS1 (via German Mililary Mlil)

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ABSENDEB'

S.A.F, Schenker & Co, Paris FeldpoSlalllt - PAR I S

uber .'eldpoS l - und Lu r tgaupos t a mt Paris

Return addresses required the above notation. Privatemail required the re turn address of one's employer and could only be delivered O£ picked up by a finn or agency courier. Gennan nationals not employed by firms received tbeir mail al the Fddpost Office and, additionally, had to show their full name and profession or occupation in the return address.

Feldpost - Bahnhofs-Zeitungen

Newspapers from areas under German influence could be delivered via the Feldpost sylltem. This service was only available to publishers, news-agents or distributors of newspapers. Rates were paid by the publisher and varied according to weight of tbe bundled newspapers.

Koln I

15 August 1942

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Labels indicated the newspapers name "Brusselcr Zcitung". the number of papers in the bundle "25" and bundle weight as well as the name of the newsagent:

·'W. Schmitz & Co".

100 grams - 0.05 Rpf 250 grams - 0.10 Rpf 500 grams - 0.20 Rpf

Grossvcrtricb Duisburg I

Postal Rates

Each additional 500 grams

I Kilogram - 0.30 Rpf 1.5 .Kilograms _ 0.45 Rpf

2 Kilograms - 0.60 Rpf

0.10 Rpf

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Feldpost Berlin Rohrpost

20 October 1942

itL05932 (Luftwaffe wit 05932) via Lufigauposlaml Hamburg 1 to Bcrlin-Tempelhof

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UNIT A_IOI.AREA COMW\ND. A1RllHB<sE DIS'!lOCJ I 1)

Feldpost - Feldpost #39576 (Field Hospital) - the Spanish "Blue Division"

The 259 Infantl)' Division, popularly called the "Blue Division" CDivision Espanola de Voluntwiol;' ) served with units of the Wehrmacht in northern Russia. An air fon:e detaclunent designated as 'IS(SpanYJG27 but known as the "Blue Squadron" operated with the Luftwaffe in centl1l1 Russia

FeldjXlst 11' 39576 - Received Logrono, Spain ll -Set-43

The Feldpost stamps were required for surface mail, 10 pr. met the rate fOf air mail service within Europe.

Feldpost· Money order

4Mly l'U'

AddresKd!o Feldpos! Nr.IB42 Marine posIarn!· Berlin

Meuage on n:\ICI"X ~Uns gml cs gut. bisber ooch alles rub;gl~.

'[I goes well wilh UlI (we're alriglu). up 10 now cvaylhing is quiet."

The i\llllsbJ.~ 00 JIfIIIIII)' 1945 and 22 J8II11111)' 1'U5 lflnoonced restrictions on variou, C&legortn of mail w;lh'n Gnmany. By Aprilll>OSl1ypH ofmalJ 10 or &om lkrIin wne forbidden. but postal mooey orden ,,~ not n:sIriCied in anywlI)'. They . Iso filled tilt role ofposl Qfds belwcen April llld Augusl 19-15.

/Je!bpo[t

Packages (up to I,(XX) grams CQuid be sent through the Fe!dpost for 0.20 Rpf.

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1944 Chn~nnas Pac~ 2 No\'~mber 1944

The 20 I'fi:mil:!' ~ t~ with the FddposI tdmi8'lion ... amp of 10 Ck'cM 1944, provided the correa po5fag~ for ddMry of l Chi.unas packase ofup to I ,0CJ(l gramo The "'" of ,wo ad"';."", 5Iampo allowed f(>r dcliv",,! of. doubk weigh! J>lckage

Ftldpo<l",lOO 16A 1"" Panzer Div;';on. CommaJId sccIioo

"URERROLLER"

"U berroller' is a t erm for mail dc:layed in transit during a military campaign and sub­sequen tl y delivered, often with censor markings applied, by the occupying

'Mlr<~ . 1 9~ 5 Loubur. (Wrull )

Deli,· ... d .f'Cf IJulyl94S

Mulhei .. (R uh r)

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16 Mor ch ~ S

Rccci .. d Spt)'er 19Dccomber4S

Mail w .. held according to Law 1176 e.ablished it" (OMGUS) i n September. I 944 I hal reg ul ated 1 bt II.cichpou iii over co ntrol or I he Reichpo.l on 2 April. 1945 For securilY rcuons ccn.o"hip wi. (r in .. cu coming under .lIied conlroL Once contro l of an Ir., "'u euabl i.hed Ind censorsbip put in pllct. ma il he ld under Ilw Jl76 "' .. procened Ind

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Souvenir Cover of World War II

Use or the 8 Pf. value to create a S(IlM:nir of World War II on one of several patriotidpropaganda envelopes crealed in 1942 by Jac;ques Minkus.

25 September, 1946

II would appear Ihal a phillleliS1 round a friendly po5Ial clerk in Spl'll)' Beacll, New Jersey.