NAZI GERMANY
1938

MICHEL P274/01 to -/06
OFFICIAL POSTCARD
6Rpf

These postcards were issued to raise funds for the Wintershilfwerk charity. There are 6 cards in the set and they are named after the winter months: Oct, Nov, Dec, Jan, Feb and Mar. Each card features a different person dressed in various work attire.

(1)
P274/01
Farm Worker

(2)
P274/02
Soup Kitchen Worker

(3)
P274/03
Artist

(4)
P274/04
Gathering Warm Clothes for Charity

(5)
P274/05
Labourer

(6)
P274/06
Fisherman

EXTRA P274/01

(2)
Michel P274/01

EXTRA P274/02

(2)
Michel P274/02

(3)
Michel P274/02

EXTRA P274/03

The following postcard was cancelled in KASSEL on 10th Dec 1938 and alongside the CDS cancel is a slogan cancel inscribed "Adler" or 'eagle'.

(2)
Michel P274/03

(3)
Michel P274/03

EXTRA P274/04

Postcard (3) below has been cancelled to order in MUNICH on 8th Jan 1939. This cancel was the special cancel used to commemorate "The Day of the Stamp" 1939.

(2)
Michel P274/04

(3)
Michel P274/04

Postcard (4) below has also been cancelled to order, this time with a special cancel used in BERLIN on Hitler's birthday on 20th Apr 1939.

(4)
Michel P274/04

EXTRA P274/05

(2)
Michel P274/05

(3)
Michel P274/05

(3) This particular version of P274/05 is a private print and has additional text

"Austellung | >> nach der Arbeit << | 20.-21.5.1939 | Berlin" as well as a gear with a swastika symbol in the centre.

In addition this postcard has a special cancel used in BERLIN on 21st May 1939. The inscription on the cancel reads

"BERLIN W29 | Nach der Arbeit | Leifungsschau der KdF Sammlergruppen Kreis X | 20.-21 Mai 1939" or 'BERLIN W29 | After work | Exhibition of the KdF Collector Groups Circle X | 20.-21 Mai 1939'

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EXTRA P274/06

(2)
Michel P274/06

(3)
Michel P274/06

(3) This particular version of P274/06 is a private print and has additional text

"Austellung | >> nach der Arbeit << | 20.-21.5.1939 | Berlin" as well as a gear with a swastika symbol in the centre.

This postcard also has the same special cancel as P274/05 No 3 above.

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NAZI GERMANY 1938

MICHEL P274/01 to -/06 OFFICIAL POSTCARD 6Rpf