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WWII - German Post Card For The Eastern European Countries?

 
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Posted 01/16/2015   12:36 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add filipo to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
and another earlier example of the Nazi propaganda...



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Posted 01/16/2015   3:33 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Battlestamps to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
The first item is a postal reply card to be used by "Eastern Workers" or Ostarbeiter. They were basically forced laborers used by Nazi Germany and many came from Ukraine and other occupied areas of Eastern Europe. They had for a time limited rights to mail messages back home using these postal reply cards, but as expected the life of these workers was brutal during and after the war.

More about them here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ost-Arbeiter
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My mum as a young teenager was an Ostarbeiter. This period of her life through to somehow getting to England in the late 40s is strictly off limits to this day.

My 1989 Michel Ganzachen Katalog lists the Ostarbeiter Card as P310, Mint-7Dm, Used - Complete-900Dm, Single-400Dm, Reply-Paid part-300Dm
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Battlestamps, thank you for the info and link!

YeaPolska, you probably have heard a lot of interesting stories from her.
Thank you for the catalog values!
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