[Below: An interesting postcard I hadn't seen before from the region of the Lower Bavaria (Niederbayern, Eisenstein). This region borders Austria and was used as a staging ground for the Germany Wehrmacht to enter Austria. It says 'German Occupation - Zone 4 - October 8, 1938'. The Anschluss took place March 12, 1938. Unfortunately I don't know much more about this occupation zone and why it was still active seven months later.]
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[Below: Postcard of the painting 'Am Anfang war das Wort'. Note the Oesterreich (Austria) and Sudetenland are overprints added later.]
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[Below: Original postcard of the painting 'Am Anfang war das Wort'. .]
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[Below: Original postcard of the painting 'Am Anfang war das Wort'. .]
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[Below: A rather uncommon Anschluss postcard.]
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[Below: A rare Austrian postcard, although not from the Anschluss. It says: 'Mander s'ischt Zeit!' (It's Time!)]
[Below: Reverse. This bears a rare cancel found on rare postcards. It says: 'Graz - Die Stadt der Volkserhebung' (Graz – The City of the Popular Uprising).]
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[Below: Here's an Austrian postcard with a better example of the cancel above.]
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'One People - One Reich - One Leader
On April 4, 1938, the German postal tariff came into effect in Austria for the first time. Both German and Austrian stamps could be used']
