Soldatenblätter für feier und Freizeit Jul 1942

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FELDPOST - FIELD POST
"SOLDATENBLÄTTER FÜR FEIER UND FREIZEIT"
"SOLDIER'S SHEETS FOR CELEBRATIONS AND LEISURE"
JUL 1942

In April 1940 a series of booklets titled "Soldatenblätter für feier und Freizeit" - "Soldier's sheets for celebrations and leisure" was published by the OKW (OberKommando der Wehrmacht), or Armed Forces High Command. The booklets were printed every month from Apr 1940 until Nov/Dec 1944.

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1942 - Jul Issue Postcards

The seventh issue of the 1942 series of the magazine featured four postcards attached to the rear cover of the booklet. Postcard 1 features soldiers at the barbers shop and the inscription "BEIM KOMPANIE- "VERSHÖNERUNGSRAT", Postcard 2 has the texts "SELTSAME SUPPENEINLAGE", "STRANGE INGREDIENTS IN THE SOUP" Postcard 3 has the text "Fronttheater", Entertainment at the "Front theater" and Postcard 4 features a house and a naked woman.

POSTCARD 1

1. ARTIST: Gefr. Hans Magg
Type: II
DESCRIPTION: Soldiers at the barber shop "BEIM KOMPANIE- "VERSHÖNERUNGSRAT"
'AT THE COMPANY "BEAUTIFULATION COUNCIL'

1. This first example was postally unused

2. The following example was a postally used FELDPOST card cancelled on 19th Aug 1942

POSTCARD 2

2. ARTIST: Gefr. Hans Magg
Type: II
DESCRIPTION: "SELTSAME SUPPENEINLAGE"
"STRANGE INGREDIENTS IN THE SOUP"

1. The card below was sent to the Districts Sports Office on 24th Aug 1943 from FELDPOST station 16440. At the time of posting this feldpost number was assigned to Stab, 1.-2. Batterie (= A-B) u. Sperrbatterie Dune (= D) Marine-Artillerie-Abteilung 122 [1] and [2]

2. Postally used on 25.2.1944 the following example was another Feldpost usage

POSTCARD 3

3. ARTIST: Max Zschoch
Type: II
DESCRIPTION: Image bar "Fronttheater"
Entertainment at the "Front theater"

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1. The example below was a FELDPOST usage on 3rd Sep 1942 from a Luftwaffe station L40147,assigned to Regimentsstab Flak-Regiment 57 (the 57th Anti-Aircraft Regiment). Established in Jan 1942 in Air District VII, the unit was located in Beuthen in 1942 as Flak Group Silesia and was transferred to Italy in July 1943.