[Below: Below are a set of five fairly common, but nicely done, postcards. Front.]

[Below: Reverse. Note that under where it says 'POSTKARTE' they have overprinted a design obscuring the word 'ANTWORT' (ANSWER), a big error for such a widely used postcard.]

[Below: Close-up.]

[Below: Front.]

[Below: Reverse.]

[Below: Front.]

[Below: Reverse.]

[Below: Front.]

[Below: Reverse.

[Below: Front.]

[Below: Reverse.]

  • Below are other used examples of the back of postcards of this set:

    [Below: Reverse #1. Used Feldpost version, canceled on June 19, 1940. This has a very interesting 'Feldpostmeister' (Field Post Master) stamp.]

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    [Below: Reverse #2. This has a Memel cancel from April 20, 1939 celebrating Adolf Hitler's 50th birthday.]

    [Below: Close-up.]

    [Below: Reverse #3. This has a Munich cancel from April 20, 1939 celebrating Adolf Hitler's 50th birthday.]

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    [Below: Reverse #4. This has a Saar cancel from April 20, 1939 celebrating Adolf Hitler's 50th birthday.]

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    [Below: Reverse #5. This has a Braunau cancel from April 20, 1939 celebrating Adolf Hitler's 50th birthday.]

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    [Below: Reverse #6. This has a Berlin cancel from April 20, 1939 celebrating Adolf Hitler's 50th birthday.]

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    [Below: Reverse #7. This has a Vienna cancel from April 20, 1939 celebrating Adolf Hitler's 50th birthday.]

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    [Below: Reverse #8. This has a Nuremberg cancel from April 20, 1939 celebrating Adolf Hitler's 50th birthday.]

    [Below: Close-up.]

    [Below: Reverse #9. This has a Berlin cancel from June 6, 1939 celebrating the Condor Legion.]

    [Below: Close-up.]

    [Below: This is sent from the Winterhilfswerk des Deutschen Volkes (Winter Relief of the German People) in Sachsen, postmarked in Dresden on Novemeber 3, 1937, with a mechanical cancel advertising 'The Nationalsozialistische Volkswohlfahrt' (NSV - 'National Socialist People's Welfare').]

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    [Below: I love the detail of this postage stamp. This was canceled in Hildesheim on November 15, 1939.]

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    [Below: This was sent from 'Der Beauftragte Mitte des Reichsstudentenführers' (The Representative Center of the Reich Student Leader), from an organization I've never seen postal material from before, so it is pretty rare to find it. The organization is called the 'National Socialist German Students' League' This was postmarked on November 27, 1940 and sent to the Dresdner Anzeiger, the oldest (1730–1943) daily newspaper in Dresden.]

    [Below: Close-up.]

    [Below: The National Socialist German Students' League poster.]

    [Below: This is a blank postcard that a label has been applied from the veteran's organization called 'The Kyffhäuserbund', an umbrella organization for war veterans' and reservists' associations in Germany. Its name is derived from the Kyffhäuser Monument, a memorial built on the summit of the 1, 551 ft. (473 m) high Kyffhäuser mountain. This was postmarked on January 6, 1934.]

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    [Below: Here are copies of an unfinished stamp set. At war's end these only existed in prototype form after being officially printed, if they survived they have never surfaced. It is likely they are destroyed. They have an interesting story, which you can read below. English/German.]

    [Below: Modern copies showing the designs.]

    [Below: Color variation. Click to enlarge]

    [Below: Close-up. Click to enlarge]

    [Below: Close-up. Click to enlarge]

    [Below: Different angle. Click to enlarge]

    [Below: Letter by the designer attesting to the authenticity of the designs. English.]

    [Below: Letter by the designer attesting to the authenticity of the designs. German.]

    [Below: Read a four page article on rare Waffen-SS foreign donation postage stamps, translated from German, from the magazine 'Der Freiwillige - Für Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit' (The Volunteer - For Unity, Justice and Freedom), September 1967, issue 9. Click to read more.]

    [Below: This is a cool unit-made postcard from Panzergrenadier Battalion 40. It says 'Zum Neuen Jahr' (For the New Year). The soldier is carrying a Panzerfaust, not often seen on postcards.]

    [Below: Postcard reverse.]