Need Advice On 1945 Austrian Anti-Nazi Cover.

Purchased this post card sized manila card with two different stamps, and two different cancels. UR has date "14.VI.45" and "???N 62" - LL "ABGEGANGEN 1. MAI. 45" I assume this is fake, but want it expertised for educational purpose. Who would be most authoritative source, German, or Austrian philatelic society? Thanks.

It may not necessarily be 'fake'. Looking at the stamps and dates and the translation for Abgegangen, it may be have been made to celebrate the German Army being pushed out of Austria.

Isn't that a "Futsches Reich" propaganda forgery?

Robert

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This web page makes me think the cover is made up after 1945.... http://www.psywarrior.com/Cornflakes2.html Still, I'd like to get an expert certificate to use in a history class, thus my question stands.

This is a totally worthless fake , bogus cover.

Going by the poor scan the only thing genuine is the 8 Rpfg
stamp which is listed in Scott Austria 392 mint 25c.

Even the word ABGEGANGEN doesn't make sense .




Austrians were more afraid of the Russians at this point
raping and killing them than worry about German Army
soldiers.

Austrians composed at least 10% of the German armed forces between 1938 - 1945 so why would they celebrate their own people
"pushed out".

This cover is totally phony and I just can't see anyone buying this
garbage.

This is the Futsches Reich stamp. These stamps were literally dropped from planes as a part of Operation Cornflake. There have been many pretenders fabricated since then.

The abgegangen is a reference to Hitler who had, shall we say, departed for a warmer climate. That doesn't make it genuine but it does give a meaning to the way the fake was, ahem, executed.

Can't pass up a pun, can you? (Wink.)

So Abgegangen is a city in Brazil?

Actually Hitler killed himself on April 30,1945 so the
May 1, 1945 postmark has no relevance to that fact.

BTW the First of May is a holiday in many European countries,
equivalent to Canadian and American labour day.

You must have seen the movie The Boys from Brazil

Great acting by Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier and James Mason.

Khedive, I would say this is a contrivance/bogus item. Just enjoy it for what it is. Many people collect such things. The post-war overprint stamp looks genuine, as has been mentioned, but everything else looks really "fishy' and without a serious attempt to appear genuine.

I'm afraid I disagree about the post-war overprint. All that I have seen have Dutsches Reich crossed out and I've never see those kind of bars before. At the least, I would say the stamp is suspect.

This was actually a "first day cover" celebrating Hitler's "going to a warmer climate" just as Hieronymus mentioned above. It is of course a bunch of nonsense, but it is more like a Cinderella among covers!
"Abgegangen" is a nice way of saying that someone died, literally "gone away".

Peter

KGB, the 'bars' are not part of the overprint, but a lame attempt at an local obliteration of Hitler's face. Michel lists no Austrian local obliterations like this. The stamp does appear to be a genuine Michel Austria #662, which is quite common.