Himmler with WHW tin

[Wunhur]

hi fellow members,

I remember seeing a illustration on "The Allgemeine SS" from the Osprey series of Himmler holding a red WHW tin. I was wondering whether anyone can post that illustration (so that others know what I'm talking about) or the actual photo. I'm curious to know if the illustration is based on an actual photo.

Below is a propaganda stamp

Wunhur

[Strider]

This stamp and a larger parody WHW sticker were produced by the black propaganda section of the British Political Warfare Executive, the printer/forger was named Ellic Howe. I'm not sure who did the original artwork.

Incidentally I'm near completion of a book documenting the range of black propaganda produced by PWE, including these stamps, and others like the Himmler parody plus the multitude of other fake postcards, leaflets, newspapers, and other forged documents. There will be an interesting Hoffmann style postcard of Mölders...

All the best,

Lee
www.psywar.org

PS the stamp you show had a brother:



The lower stamp is actually based on a WWI German photo, published in the 1924 book, Krieg dem Kriege!

[Strider]

And the larger version

Here is the larger version of Himmler and the collecting tin, it was one of five parody WHW stickers produced by PWE in 1942.

Lee

www.psywar.org

[J Howland]

It's interesting to see that the forgers gave the stamp parodies the name of an actual TR artist. The man was an SA-Sturmbannfuhrer at one point. He survived 1945 and actually designed at least one set of post-war German stamps - commemorating, if I remember, the big annual Lepzig Fair. After that he seemed to disappear...

Jim

[Strider]

It's interesting to see that the forgers gave the stamp parodies the name of an actual TR artist. The man was an SA-Sturmbannfuhrer at one point. He survived 1945 and actually designed at least one set of post-war German stamps - commemorating, if I remember, the big annual Lepzig Fair. After that he seemed to disappear...

Jim

Ellic Howe was a stickler for detail even making sure the stamps were perforated with a metric calibrated machine, which was hard to get hold of in wartime Britain!

Lee
www.psywar.org