Help To ID A German Language Cinderella?

Anyone recognize this stamp? I have three more of similar design in three other values, which I can post if more help is needed.

The German translates as something like Our Strength Keeps the Peace.



Thanks!

Very cool stamp. It amazes me how many Reich stamps/Cinderellas there are out there. Now I see something else I need to keep my eye out for.

Very nice Collin,
unusual perf format.

I believe it's Austrian given the groschen currency. The cross potent was a sytmbol of the Austrian right-wing Fatherland's Front party in the mid-1930s so I guess this may well have been issued by that organisation.

The last three words in the slogan refer to protecting the peace. The first two words are undecipherable for me (read Babel Fish doesn't understand them). They could be the name of a party leader.

This was one of a series of party propaganda stamps. Some were used on covers (in addition to the normal postage), so it is possible to find some with postal markings.

As far as I can tell this was part of a series of stamps composed of three different designs, in three different colors (some designs were printed in two different colors). They were denominated in 1, 5, 10 and 20 groschen.



I pinched this image from: http://www.voeph.at/userpics/briefm...l_200704.pdf

The political party itself was dissolved in 1934 when Austria was conjoined to Germany.

Here are the other three that I picked up...

Actually the Ansluss (Annexation) to Germany didn't happen until 1938.
In 1934 the Austrian chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss was assassinated by Nazi agents. Hitler claimed innocence to the act and blamed it on homegrown Austrian Nazis.

The logans say things like We are the nation on the 10gr and
We the youth are ready on the 5 gr

In my old Michel it states they were issued in 1938 and called the Schuschnigserie, they had no postal validity. Schuschnig was the last chancellor of the First Republic and was deposed by Hitler when the Nazis took over.

Apropos the Annexation, here is a philatelic cover referring to the plebiscite on April 10,1938 when Austrians voted whether they wanted to join the Third Reich or not.

The postmark says One people,one country,one leader.
The blue imprint says On April 10 give the leader your yes.

The stamp was issued on April 8 and shows symbolically a German and Austrian walking together in unity.
There are two versions of the stamp, the one printed by the State Printer in Berlin is dark green, swastika watermark, perf 14, size 23x28mm.
The other printed by the Austrian State Printer, Vienna is deep green, unwmk, perf 12¾, size 21.5x26mm