Thanks guys and enjoy! For me its also very interesting piece of history!
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Envelope with propaganda postcard - Soviet paradise!
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Birthday Issue 1937
From a town--and a post office--some may be familiar with....Comment
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Anniversary of Generalgouvernment 1941
Second Anniversary of General Government, Nazi-Occupied Poland. Cancellation stamps from Lublin and Lemberg (Lvov)....Comment
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First Postwar Stamps
Slovenia, May 1945....Comment
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Thanks for posting them! These form May '45 are just unreal - AH on stamps after the war!Originally posted by DBRoyal View Post
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They had to use what was on hand. Probably lasted into late 45.Originally posted by Oscar View PostComment
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Great collection.Great pieces of historyComment
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I agree with DBRoyal. Currency was another area where the examples from the Nazi era continued in use for quite a while post-May '45. Printing new postage stamps and paper currency, and certainly minting new coinage, must have taken a long time to handle, given the state of the economies and the industries destroyed by the years of bombing and the ground-war. This wasn't just a matter for the post-war German government, such as it was; each former nation had to re-establish itself and make decisions as to what the postage and currency should look like, and then there was the issue of distribution -- I'm sure many banks and post offices were also destroyed, which meant great difficulty in terms of getting new stamps and currency into circulation. So each geographic area/country must have brought its postage and currency on-line at very different times, depending upon the available resources at hand. And that meant that using the old stamps and currency was better than having nothing to use at all. What a terrible time to have to live through!
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