Hitler in poland PC , Kracau stamp

[dragnet]

Postcard of Hitler with troops in Poland, what i find interesting is the overstamping on the stamps then the cancelation mark, comments welcome. Pete.

[randy@treadways]

Karl Hennig was a stamp dealer in Hamburg. He had many thousands of these Poland-series postcards sent back to him from Poland. Since he wanted them to be attractive for sales to philatelic customers, he had his agents affix the most colorful of the new Polish occupation stamps, and of course a nice postmark.

This set of postcards is much easier to find *with* Hennig's name on them, than without!

[dragnet]

Karl Hennig was a stamp dealer in Hamburg. He had many thousands of these Poland-series postcards sent back to him from Poland. Since he wanted them to be attractive for sales to philatelic customers, he had his agents affix the most colorful of the new Polish occupation stamps, and of course a nice postmark.

This set of postcards is much easier to find *with* Hennig's name on them, than without!

Wow Randy cheers for your reply, i had no idea that stamp dealer would ask for these to be sent back to him, very interesting indeed, ive bought a small collection of TR postcards and quite a few have polish stamls etc, Do you know if these have any value as to these being ''overstamped''? Pete.

[ramon]

I'll add a bit more insight about Herr Hennig. He was a philatelic dealer before, during and after the war. He was well connected with the party and used his connections to prosper.

He had concocted fantastic combinations of stamp issues that in normal usage would have never been possible. Channel Island occupation stamp issues along with Germany proper stamps issues on the same postacar cancelled with Feldpost cancelling devises are but one little example of his efforts with "makalatur and mache" products.

In the late 60's into the the early 80' his concern was cranking out more philatelic wonders in the Dominican Republic under the name of Philatelica Dominica. The problem was that the Sonderstempeln (special cancels) were stolen original devices that were used to tart up cheap genuine Generalgouvernment postage stamp issues and sell to the unsuspecting collector. I won't assert that the postcard shown in this thread is part of this effort, but it would not surprise me in the least.

Ramon

[randy@treadways]

Even if the stamps & postal cancellations were applied post-war (and I have every reason to believe ramon is right about that), the postcards still have value to Hoffmann collectors, so they're certainly not totally worthless.
There are some fake Hoffmann postcards out there, but those are easy to spot and I've never seen them associated with the Hennig firm. I think Hennig was using genuine Hoffmann postcards for his endeavour.