This cover was a local Registered letter sent to Vienna on 28th Jan 1943. The cancellation is a regular circular CDS. The stamps are a set of six 3Pf 1943 Michel 830 Reichsadler stamps. In addition there are two 1941 issue Hitler definitive stamps: an 8Pf Michel 786 and a 12Pf Michel 788 stamp.
COVER to HEIDENHEIM (30th Jan 1943)
This Registered cover was sent from Stuttgart to Heidenheim, a small town in Baden-Württemberg in the South of Germany, on 30th Jan 1943. The stamp is a single 1943 issue 54+96Pf Michel 829 stamp, which was issued to commemorate the 10th Anniversary of the Nazi Party's seizure of power in Jan 1933. The cancellation is a special cancel inscribed 'STUTTGART - STADT DER AUSLANDSDEUTSCHEN' which translates to 'STUTTGART - CITY OF FOREIGN GERMANS'.
COVER from KOBLENZ (30th Jan 1943)
This windowed Registered cover was sent from Koblenz on 30th Jan 1943. The stamp is the 1943 Michel 829 issued to commemorate 10 years in power of the Nazi Party. The destination can't be determined as there is no address but the reverse of the cover is stamped 'FRANKFURT (MAIn)' on the same day.
REGISTERED COVER from BERLIN (30th Jan 1943)
This Registered cover was sent from Berlin to Mannheim on 30th Jan 1943. The stamp is a single 1943 issue 54+96Pf Michel 829 stamp, which was issued to commemorate the 10th Anniversary of the Nazi Party's seizure of power in Jan 1933. The cancellation is a special cancel inscribed 'BERLIN | Führer befiehl - wir folgen Dir! | 10 JAHRE MACHTÜBERNAHME' which translates to 'BERLIN | The Leader commands - we follow you! | 10 YEARS TAKEOVER OF POWER'.
COVER from BERLIN (31st Jan 1943)
This cover was sent to a company in Bavaria (mistyped Nayern) and has a regular 12Rpf official Hitler self-adhesive stamp cancelled at BERLIN W7 on 31st Jan 1943. In addiiton there is a decorative special cancel.
COVER from MARBURG (2nd Feb 1943)
This rather busy Registered cover was sent from Marburg to an Oberleutnant Dr. Reinhard on 2nd Feb 1943. The cover has all three 1943 issue Michel 820 to 822 stamps issued to highlight the European Postal Congress. There are also an additional three stamps from the six 1941 Michel 773-778 Postal Employees issue stamps .
CTO MUNICH (31st Mar 1943)
HITLER'S BIRTHDAY SPECIAL CANCEL #1 BRANAU AM INN (20th Apr 1943)
HITLER'S BIRTHDAY SPECIAL CANCEL #2 BERLIN (20th Apr 1943)
SPECIAL CANCEL METZ (26th Jun 1943)
COVER from SCHWEINFURT (7th Jul 1943)
At the beginning of the war the town of Schweinfurt produced most of Nazi Germany's ball bearings, and factories such as the Schweinfurter Kugellagerwerke (ballbearing factory) became a target of Allied strategic bombing during World War II in an attempt to cripple tank and aircraft production. Schweinfurt was bombed 22 times during Operation Pointblank by a total of 2,285 aircraft.
COVER from MUNICH (1st Aug 1943)
COVER from HEIDELBERG, MAINZ (5th Aug 1943)
REGISTERED COVER from LEIPZIG (6th Aug 1943)
REGISTERED COVER from CHEMNITZ (11th Sep 1943)
COVER from MUNICH (9th Nov 1943)
This cover was sent from Munich on 9th Nov 1943 and features a 1943 issue Michel 863 24+26Pf stamp. The cancellation is a special cancel inscribed 'MUNCHEN HAUPTSTADT DER BEWEGUNG' translated as 'Munich, home of the movement' which refers to the fact that the Nazi Party started life in Munich. 1943 was the 20th Anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch when the Nazi's first attempted to gain power in Munich. The figure on the stamp is thought to be that of Horst Wessel and he is carrying what came to be known as the 'Blood Flag', a symbol of the lives lost in the failed putsch.
