Many Different Overprints On Hitler Heads?

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Hello Everyone,
I have this Hitler Head stamp with an overprint I have not seen before.
PRAVDA ZVITEZILA !

Can anyone tell me anything about it?
Also, I would like to do some trading (this stamp included) but I thought you had to be a "supporter" to be able to go to that section to trade / sell / buy?

Also, would love to see any overprints on Hitler Head or any German foreign stamps as well. I love overprints!
Here is the stamp, thank you!
SueStamps

Czech: Truth Prevailed

I browsed through the Michel Spezial Katalog and couldn't find a reference to this overprint. That's not to say it's not in there, it's just that I couldn't find it where I would have expected it. Based on Oldguy's translation, I would expect this to fit in the category of post WWII local usage, propaganda overprint, or fantasy creation in Bohemia & Moravia (German occupation of Czechloslovakia).

Brian

If I am not mistaken, this stamp was a privately produced 'cinderella'?

I too cannot find it in the Michel catalogues.

Chimo

Bujutsu

Very interesting! thank you all so much for the information.
SueStamps

This is an example of what are collectively known as World War II "Revolutionary" or "Liberation" overprints, done shortly after the war ended. There are many of them, numbering in the hundreds. These are local overprints done in over 100 cities for use until new Czech stamps were available. Most were authorized for use for only a few days. There are specialist catalogs on these stamps. There are fakes/fantasies/cinderellas that were not officially authorized. Whether this is legitimate or a cinderella, I don't know. This is not my area of expertise.

Here's some Hitler Head overprints from the German occupation of Ukraine, 1941. Scott lists these under Russia, numbers N39-48, but they are often collected by collectors specializing in the German area as well.

If you like overprints, the German area is the one for you! The "German Area" encompasses Germany itself as well as the old East Germany, old German states, Danzig, Memel, Saar, occupations, etc. I don't know the exact number, but the German area probably contains well over 1000 different overprints, and that's not even counting local overprints that Scott doesn't even list (but Michel does). Some of them are quite valuable - and quite prone to forgery. One always needs to be wary when buying stamps where the value is in the overprint. It's usually far easier to forge an overprint than an entire stamp.

Sue, those overprints were used during the aftermath of the 3rd Reich collapse.....the idea was to utilize the stamps remaining in German postal offices after the collapse because of the Govt's inability to print more. In order to use the older stamps any National Socialist images had to be defaced or blurred with some type of local overprint. For a lot more info, look up "Saxon Blackening" on the "Stamporama discussion forum". I have a set of 19 hitler heads with an overprint of a two masted ship and town name "Kolberg" on it. They aren't listed in Scott's but may be in Michel. Very weird, but a practical solution if you can not print new stamps!

Hitler was paid for his image on stamps, which is part of why he is on such a large variety of issues. The "Hitler Heads" and their overprints are only the beginning. Obviously covers with those obscured Heads are very nice to find. All of my TR postal history is from during the war, so I don't have any of those usages.

The fee received for the stamps raised 75 million marks for his Culture Fund apparently, according to Wikipedia. Roughly 31 million USD at 1938 exchange rate. The sculptor Breker had a guaranteed income of 1 million marks a year (he's standing next to Hitler and Speer in that photo of them looking at the Eiffel Tower) so that left 74 million marks to do other Kultur-type things.