2 German Feldpost Covers, Neuwied & Regis-Breitingen

I am not very familiar with Feldpost, but have read the basics. (and added a stock photo below)
(and unfortunately do not know German and can barely read the writing on these two.

But they are interesting in their locations in Germany.

The postcard is of the "famous" 800 year old Sayn Castle", which still stands.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayn_Castle

Envelope:
There is no writing or markings of any kind on the back of the envelope.
Is the feldpost number on left margin, written vertically or is this something else?
L3070L
Or is the feldpost on the stamp? The 3rd Reich stamp is a bit smudged, but can make out
L 36702.

Town of Neuwied: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuwied

Thoughts ? What do you see?

Hi.
L 36702 on both cancel and written inscription.

Turtle2900,

Nice items; rather common, however, as Germans tend to be prolific writers and much material abounds. I have collected FELDPOST (soldiers' mail, usually free-franked) for nearly forty years, and the prices for the vast majority have remained static or declined on average. I usually pick up unusual FELDPOST topical cards/covers, paying extra for seldom-seen auxiliary markings. Either addressed to or from interesting family names (not from among the more common German surnames like Schmidt/Mueller/Gaertner/Richter usw) for a Euro (US$1.18) or two.

Unusual or no-longer existing place names can command a bit of a premium as well, mostly for (n)Ostalgia-minded German speaking collectors not unlike myself.

If you ever find any German-language (or less likely, Dutch, Czech, Polish, or French) correspondence with sender or recipient's named Wentzell, Habisrittinger, Denner, Compart, Henneberg, Morawski, Nowotny, van Koenen/Fabelmann, or the more common Gessler, I would pounce on them like white on rice be appreciative if you contact me as I'd definitely be interested, from a genealogical viewpoint. My family surnames going back a couple generations.

The pencilled numeral "6" marked on one cover might have been a dealer's wishful selling price, in either DM's or Euros (asking about US$4 to $7 at today's exchange rate).

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The last postcard--shown above --if it even exists, I believe to be a post-WWII reproduction or a reprinted postcard, as the Bundesarchiv notation (SEE ARROW) on the postcard indicates it could not be from the NAtional-SoZIalistiche-era (1933-1945). I have never seen the one pictured above, if indeed it is a postcard.....and I've seen a lot.....

There exist today countless excellent reproductions of propaganda-type post cards from the N-S (Nazi) era; this particular original postcard by itself, if it was mailed and expertise by the BDP (federation of German Philatelists--the ultimate authority on faked pricier German material), could easily bring quite a number of Euros by itself, if marketed optimally at auction. It shows a public desk-writing area, with two nurses assisting three Wehrmach soldiers writing home; the sign loosely translates as "Accepting soldier's mail here for the Front" mentioning the German version of USA's USO"

Propaganda type postcards, especially postally used, in-period, can sometimes command outrageous premiums, especially if the usage is not overtly philatelic.

For English-speakers there is of course the GPS (German Philatelic Society) an affiliate of the US-based American Philatelic Society. My favorite German go-to site is "philaseiten.de" and they do have a decent English translation option; if you can navigate the tremendous amount of postings you will learn a lot about Feldpost there!

Meantime I try to help decipher old German script (Suetterlin and others) when I can, as I was forced to learn when my late grandfather wrote to me weekly in his neat, but hard-to-read Suetterlin script. If I didn't write back my Opa wouldn't send me any stamps!. Today I can read German-language material a bit better, perhaps, than the average German. One tends to get better at it with practice, especially if it's from the same person!

--Jim Wentzell
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Another category of German military mail that goes for a good premium above the tons of ordinary military mail is that from the World War 1 aviation units, especially the fighter units and the Zeppelin units. These have rubber stamp cachets that were applied to them by their postal clerks similar to the round one you see on your Neuwied postcard, except the cachet on your card shows it was from a person at a reserve hospital (RESERVELAZARETTE)

For example, here is a card that was sent by a man in a WW 1 fighter squadron unit (Jagdstaffel)