German Cancellations Of The Third Reich Period

I've taken a shine to the pictorial commemorative cancellations of the Third Reich period such as these (which are all on cover)







Is anyone aware of a catalogue of these cancellations?

Whoa! Those are really neat but sort of spooky too.

I know, you do need to divorce yourself from the mentality behind them. I've always liked them, but didn't have any until my father (a British D-Day veteran) passed away. He would be a bit annoyed, and probably quite rightly............

They're quite validly collectable though, as much as any other commemorative postmark, however they did seem to commemorate absolutely everything!

Interestingly the Michel "Ganzsachen-Katalog Deutschland" (cover catalogue) shows some cancel examples for the pre and post war period though it has nothing from the war period.

Yes, they were commemorating everything...the first one refers to the return (Heimkehr?) of that `Condor Legion` which bombed Guernica?? The third one (visit of Prince Paul of Yugoslavien?)is very interesting too.
Don`t know of any catalogue, I too have a lot (but not on cover), Michel lists a lot of `Sonderstempel`, but no CV.









...finally an overprint, I guess it`s fake (Meissen?), but I keep it on the last page of my D.Reich album... as a catchword.

You just need to remember that it is history. Not a great period of history but, still history. I have an extensive collection of Third Reich cancellations and stamps. No you don't have to agree with what happened during this awful period of time to collect it. It doesn't make you a Nazi supporter. I lived in Germany for 3 years and while I was there I went to visit the different WWII historical spots all over Europe. That is where I got my interest in collecting the stamps from that period.

Nice cancellations by the way.

I actually tried selling that last cover on ebay and it was pulled by ebay despite the fact it's okay to sell stamps and postmarks of this time period and subject matter. It took several emails for me to make ebay understand their own rules, but I haven't bothered to try it again. It's very touchy subject matter for some, buy like sharkfan said, it's still history. No matter how ugly it is, you cannot erase. Learn and don't repeat it.

So true battlestamps and sharksfan. And as has been pointed out on this site a number of times, those who forget or ignore history are destined to repeat it. As distasteful as this stuff may be for some, danger lies in ignorance, not in exposure.
If that makes any sense.

Hi to all
Talking about German Postcards, this one was issued to encourage people to vote for the amalgamation of Austria and Germany.
However the vote never took place as Hitler marched his troops into Austria and annexed it saying it was part of the Greater German Empire.
I will not post the front, as it is a photographic card and would offend many.
It depicts Hitler and Boormann.
Regards,
Horamakhet

Throughout it's history, Germany has had some of the best cancellations ever concieved. Even in the early days of postage, it's hard to find a bad cancellation on a German stamp. Thanks for showing these!

@Battlestamps ... if you ever want to sell that B102 cover, I'm seriously interested :)

Brian

That B102 cover is quite nice! Used to the US is also very Uncommon!

Here's another one I picked up today.

It was misdescribed as a "free Feldpost cover". Actually, it is. However, it's much more.

The Sudetenland was entered by the Germans on 1 October 1938. This cover is from a place called Arnsdorf in the Decin (Tetschen) district of Czechoslovakia, with the red cachet "Die Heimat Ist Frei Arnsdorf b T am 3 X 1938" translating to "The Homeland is Free Arnsdorf in the District of Tetschen 3 October 1938", therefore commemorating their "liberation".

A cracker IMHO

Sorry about the image "borrowed" from ebay

Rather than hijack this thread, I posted a couple of Reich related POW postcards in its own thread.

https://goscf.com/t/16505

They're very nice, and could belong here as well. I think the thread title covers these too, even though my first post was regarding commemorative cancellations

Horamkhet


That's not correct, the plebiscite was indeed held on April 10, 1938
asking the Austrian voter whether they agreed to join the German Reich.
The Nazi government claimed to have received 99.73% of the vote in their favour.
It was not a secret ballot so one had to be either brave or stupid to vote no.

The vote you're refering to was a referendum Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg wanted to hold on March 11, 1938
but he canceled it due to pressure by the German Government.
Next day the German Army moved in to annex Austria.

Here is the one I have with the stamp which was issued on
April 8, 1938 for the event.
There were 2 versions of this stamp printed.
One by the State Printer in Berlin which measures 23 by 28mm
And the other slightly smaller by the Austrian State Printer 21.5 x 26mm