My WWII Stamp Collection Website

If anyone is interested, I am working on a small website dedicated to my WWII stamps and covers. I have been working on it for a few days now and I am ready to show it off. It is still a work in progress but coming along nicely. If you are interested here is the link:

http://thirdreichstampguy.yolasite.com/

I also want to apologize for my "meltdown" a little while back. This has always been a great place and I went overboard on opinions. I was wrong. I owe some people an apology. So, if I offended anyone, I am truly sorry.

Bryan

P.S.
I will be on here more often and contribute where I can. I miss everyone.

Bryan,

We've all had our bad days. Glad to see you're back!

Steve

Thank you Steve. I had a "bad year". I'm good now.

Very nice looking web site. I have been a fan of these stamps though I must admit I don't have all that many.

Welcome back Bryan. Nice website you've put together.

Nice site!

Nice job!

The scanning looks great- question - did you scan @ 200 dpi or 300 dpi or ?

Welcome back from me also. I very much enjoy your Third Reich website. Please continue, and please continue to comment / add threads on SCF.

Welcome Back!

Thanks for sharing this sharksfan.

I was always interested in the Third Reich postal items.

Somewhere, either the late 1960s or early 1970s, Linns Weekly had an article on the TR Postal Cards and showed # P250 and, stated it was the first postal card issued under the Hitler regime. Your listing here would tend to make this statement incorrect (?)

Chimo

Bujutsu

I have been bust at work on my webpage. I have added many more scans and more information. This is turning into more work than I ever dreamed.

http://thirdreichstampguy.yolasite.com/

Bujutsu. I'm not sure what you are looking at. Please, when you get a chance can you point it out to me? As far as I can tell, there are several others that were issued before that particular one.

Jkjblue...I'm not sure. LOL I just put them in the scanner and go with it.

Hi

It is the card that shows the heads of both Hitler and Hindenburg and a rally marching under the Brandenburg Bridge. It is marked as # P250 I believe in that website.

Hope this helps?

Chimo

Bujutsu

The fabulous German area collection of Dr. Kurt Benirschke is being auctioned this month by Daniel Kelleher ( www.kelleherauctions.com ) . I have the catalog and have been drooling, wishing I had a larger stamp budget right now. There's a lot of rare WW II items.

I have spent some additional time reviewing your web site and it is very nicely done and a good resource. What it has done is to broaden my scope of my personal collection. I was a solid USA MNH collector with a smaller interest in Canada, Australia and Israel stamps.

I took some time; well three solid evenings to comb through my thousands of unsorted foreign stamps. To my surprise I had some Third Reich that I never noticed. Actually I had a good helper in my daughter too.

The question is why do I now want to expand in this direction? To put it simple it represents one of the most turbulent times of the last 100 years. It is history and the fact that you consider the stamps even survived in the numbers that there are is amazing in a way.

The span of this collection was only around 13 years and it ended with total destruction to many German cities. From a strictly stamp perspective the fact that large amount of used stamps let alone mint stamps survived appears impossible.

Think about it many stamp clubs in the USA and around the world started to boycott German stamps in the late 1930's. I can't believe many occupied countries would have not burned these stamps after Germany's defeat. While I could understand some service men keeping some as war trophy's I would have to think they would have destroyed many things associated with Hitler and the Third Reich.

I find it somewhat impossible that they even issued new stamps in 1945 during the closing months of the war. Even more impossible that enough survived to be easy to get even today. The odds certainly were stacked against any of these stamps being around today.

I have started the fast track to learning about and collecting these stamps. The few things nice it is a short time period and there are enough resources to learn about them.
I thank you for sharing your web site and gift and I hope that over the course of the next few years I can pick your knowledge.

I'm glad I could help you get your collection started. You will have to show off your collection as it gets going. Even though this is one of the darkest periods of time, it is also one of the most historical. Trust me, it will keep your attention. All the different countries involved, the cancellations, the varieties. In such a short span of time there was a lot of time and effort spent on making and distributing stamps for propaganda purposes. So, I can only say good luck and enjoy. If you need more stamps just let me know.