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    Letter from front !

    Hi !

    I have a lot of questions about the letters the soldiers send to their families.



    1- What is writed on each line ?

    2- What "13b" in the circle means ?

    3- Why there is no number on the stamped Feldpost ?

    4- The bottom of the letter contains a cartoon. Is it specific to the unit (III Kompagnie) ?

    5- Does anyone know the FPN of the 17. Lw.FeldDiv. 34. Jg. Reg. ?


    Thanks in advance.


    PS: If anybody get a letter as this one, could he posts a scan of the inside ? It's for complete my replica (for reenacting) & I dont know what to write in it...

    #2
    Here the text on each line:

    "Familie
    Maria Peer
    13 b Herblfing Post Wallerfing
    bei Platting Ndb (Niederbayern)"

    2) 13 b is an old German postal code for the Platting area. Herblfing was a small village close
    to Platting. They did not have an own postal station. Their postal station was Wallerfing
    (near Platting)

    http://www.strassenkatalog.de/str/he...herblfing.html

    4) The cartoon shows a very common figure in Germany during WW2. It's
    called "Kohlenklau" , a man who steels coal - in that way that he steels heat because of
    open doors or windows. The "III Kompanie" is not related to the special writer. It was a
    common letter cartoon.

    http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohlenklau

    http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__MhaamYCH6...ohlenklau2.jpg

    http://www.google.de/imgres?imgurl=h...JoiSswaJ1OSFAw


    http://www.nachtwaechtervoneibensbac...kohlenklau.gif

    Gerdan

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      #3
      Hey !

      Thanks a lot for your answer !

      I find the answer to my 5th question so it just remains the #4.

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        #4
        What the size of this card ?
        Last edited by Tiflo 62; 03-19-2011, 01:57 PM.

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