Propaganda Overprint

Is this a rare cover or common with the overprint stamp to USA ? Thanks Bob

I don't collect Germany unless it relates to Poland but did a google & here's what I've come up with.

The overprint was a private production, here's some info in German, the poster bought his set for 10 € a couple of years ago
http://www.philaseiten.de/cgi-bin/index.pl?ST=1225

I've re-edited the pic to make it neater


The top row reads"Germany is not viable without colonies"
The bottom row "Give Germany back her colonies"

Your example is similar to the bottom row but on a different stamp from the era

After WWI a set of propaganda labels was sold showing the 19 territories & colonies Germany lost after the war. The set is readily available on ebay, check out Germany - Lost Colonies.

Three of these labels pertain to Poland, Danzig/Gdansk, Posen/Poznan, Oberschlesien/Gorny Slask/Upper Silesia. Germany regained them during WWII but lost them again afterwards & they are firmly Polish now



I've no idea what your postcard is worth but certainly worth keeping as a record of those tumultuous times

Thanks for the taking the time and finding this information. I am looking for used on cover to USA but can't find any Past of Present. I found one on the German ebay site which is in German for sale used in country for 900 euro & see he calls it Rare!

correction.. he was asking 90 Euro. ebay item # 271323336249

The postmark is from 1926, the underlying stamp was only valid until Nov 30, 1923 and has lost nearly all its value dues to the hyper-inflation well before then. So the overprinted stamp was only a label, not used to pay postage.