• Here are a group of envelopes with strange rural cancels. They were sent to 'Deutsche Spinnereimaschinenbau' (German Spinning Machinery Manufacturing) sent to Ingolstadt Ober Bayern from Sudetengau.

    [Below: This was postmarked on March 24, 1939 and arrived on March 27, 1939.]

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    [Below: This was postmarked on Feberuary 2, 1939 and arrived on February 4, 1939.]

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    [Below: This was postmarked on December 31, 1938.]

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    [Below: This was postmarked on January 18, 1939 and arrived on January 20, 1939.]

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    [Below: This was postmarked on January 19, 1939 and arrived on January 21, 1939.]

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    [Below: This was postmarked on April 25, 1939 and arrived on April 27, 1939.]

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    [Below: This was postmarked on January 9, 1937 and sent express, from Berlin to Vienna, and arrived the same day!]

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    [Below: This was postmarked on August 7, 1944 and sent to Dietrich Eckart Street!]

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    [Below: This was postmarked on July 4, 1943 and sent to Horst Wessel Street!]

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    [Below: This strange-looking envelope, with no date and an odd cancel, it says 'Korps Rijkpolitie Groeps Uitgeest' (National Police Force Group - Uitgeest is a town in the Netherlands).]

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    [Below: Close-up from another envelope celebrating Adolf Hitler's 50th birthday.]

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    [Below: This was sent from Ludendorff Street!]

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    [Below: This is sent to Portuguese East Africa.]

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    [Below: Reverse - inverted to show censor tape.]

    [Below: Close-up. This censor tape is unlike any other I've ever seen. It used a different font and is much darker than normal.]

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    [Below: Close-up. This is made from an incredibly thick and durable paper.]

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    [Below: This envelope contains a genealogical document and four separate letters, even mentioning Allied terror attacks. This was postmarked very late in the war - March 2, 1945. This was sent by someone named Dr. Anton Wurdack, who worked for the 'Municipal Administration of the Reichgau Vienna, Accounting and Treasury Officer'.]

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    [Below: Genealogical document.]

    [Below: Letters 1-4 - German language.]

    [Below: Header of letter above, it says: 'Vienna, February 22, 1945, the day after the worst terrorist attack on Vienna to date!']

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    [Below: Machine meter mail.]

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    [Below: This is rather strange, it contains a hand-written obituary for a woman who 'passed away suddenly and unexpectedly... in their 77th year'. The sticker says 'Alice - Women's Association'.]

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