Accession Number: 2022.02.10.3.10 Stamp: Die Saar kehrt heim! The Saar returns home! Postmark: Saarbrücken 3 January 1935 Deutsch ist die Saar… The Saar is German… The Saarland is a region on the border of Germany and France governed by the League of Nations following World War I. In the early 1930s, the region drew the…

Accension Number: 2022.02.8.33 Stamp: 6 Winterhilfswerk Deutches Reich  Postmark: BERLIN 22.12.3    The address is difficult to identify, but what can be made out is: “Berlin-Wilhelmshage / Moltkestr. 11”  The illustration to the left of the postcard is of Martin Luther and the following quote: “Ich suche nicht das Meine, sondern allein des ganze Deutschlands…

Accension Number: 2022.02.8.38 Stamp: 6 Winterhilfswerk Deutches Reich  Postmark: MALMEDY 18. Mai 1940. “Heimkehr ins Großdeutsche Vaterland” (Return home to the Greater German Fatherland). “MALMEDY” likely refers to the annexation of the town of Malmedy in Belgium into the Greater German Reich during WWII, which occurred May 1940.    There is no written text on…

Accension Number: 2022.02.8.44 Stamp: 6 Winterhilfswerk Deutches Reich  Postmark: BERLIN, “Nationale Briefmarken-Ausstellung” (National Stamp Exhibition), with an illustration of the Berlin Victory Column with airplanes flying overhead. BERLIN SW 11 (a postal district in Berlin), 31.3.1940, “REICHS-STRASSESAMMLUNG” “Schaffende sammeln”. BERLIN SW 11, 31.3.40.-20 (signifies March 31, 1940 at 20:00).     On the postcard there is…

Accension Number: 2022.02.8.45 Stamp: 6 Winterhilfswerk Deutches Reich  Postmark: SCHMIEDEBERG 28.12.39    The front text of the postcard consists of an address from a recipient in Breslau and includes a street name “Bunsenstraße” and house number “5”.     The back of the postcard has the date written as “d. 24. 12. 38”. It is addressed…

Accension Number: 2022.02.8.47 Stamp: 6 Winterhilfswerk Deutches Reich  Postmark: A postal cancellation mark dated 31.3.1940 and including the following text: “Deutsches Reich” “WHW-Reichs-Straßensammlung” “Schaffende sammeln – Schaffende geben”.   The postcard has no written text, only an illustration of Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, his birth and death dates (April 1, 1815—July 30, 1898), and a…

Accension Number: 2022.02.8.46 Stamp: 6 Winterhilfswerk Deutches Reich  Postmark:    Illustrated on the postcard is Otto von Bismarck, the first Chancellor of the German Empire and better known as “Der eiserne Kanzler” (The Iron Chancellor). A quote is printed beneath the illustration; “Eine feige Politik hat noch immer Unglück gebracht”. This translates to “A cowardly…

Accension Number: 2022.02.8.48 Stamp: 6 Winterhilfswerk Deutches Reich  Postmark: “BRESLAU”   The front text of the postcard displays an address and recipient: “Hern Betriebsleiter (To Mr. Operations Manager) Leibnitz Dr. Allerstorfer 4”.    The back of the postcards can be deciphered roughly as follows:  Breslan, den 19. Num. 1939  Liebe Eltern! Dank für Mutters Keerta.…