GERMAN POSTAL HISTORY

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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.

1942 - Aug Issue Postcards

The eigth issue of the 1942 series of the magazine featured four postcards attached to the rear cover of the booklet. Postcard 1 features a destroyed Russian village, Postcard 2 features another destroyed Russian village now with a tank outside Postcard 3 has the text "der storch", the Stork and Postcard 4 features a farmer harvesting his crops.

POSTCARD 1

1. ARTIST: F. Sauer
Type: II
DESCRIPTION: Destroyed Russian town

1. This first example is postally unused




2. The following example was a FELDPOST usage on 27th Apr 1943.

POSTCARD 2

2. ARTIST: F. Sauer
Type: II
DESCRIPTION: Destoyed Russian village with tanks on the road

POSTCARD 3

3. ARTIST: Max Zschoch
Type: II
DESCRIPTION: "Der Storch" Image bar showing a Fieseler Storch (the stork) aircraft
"The stork"

POSTCARD 4

4. ARTIST: Heinz Kießling
Type: II
DESCRIPTION: Image bar "Farmer using a sythe to gather in the harvest

REFERENCES

1. Germanstamps.net Feldpost Number Database

2. Lexicon der Wehrmacht