GERMAN POSTAL HISTORY
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FELDPOST - FIELD POST
"SOLDATENBLÄTTER FÜR FEIER UND FREIZEIT"
"SOLDIER'S SHEETS FOR CELEBRATIONS AND LEISURE"
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.
1940: 9 Issues, one per month, from April to Dec
1941: 11 issues, one per month, from Jan to Nov/Dec (the last issue of the year was a double issue)
1942: 12 Issues, one per month now catalogued as heft 1, heft 2, heft 3, ... heft 12.
1943: 12 issues, one per month catalogued as heft 1, heft 2, heft 3, ... heft 11/12.
1944: Unknown
The cards can be sorted by the number of lines of publisher's text running along the vertical dividing line.
Type: I: One line of text
Type: II: Two lines of text
Type: III: No text along the vertical divider.
1942 Postcards
The 1942 issue was the third series of booklets, and it consisted of 12 issues with a total of 42 postcards. The numbering scheme changed from the previous Jan, Feb, Mar etc, to Heft 1, Heft 2, Heft 3 etc, up to the final issue of the year which was Heft 12.
HEFT 1 (January)
The first issue of the 1942 series of the magazine featured two postcards1. ARTIST: Jul. Nordmann
Type: II
DESCRIPTION: Pioneers constructing a bridge
2. ARTIST: Jul. Nordmann
Type: II
DESCRIPTION: Pioneers constructing a road
See here for more postally used examples
HEFT 2 (February)
1. ARTIST: Fritz BraunerType: II
DESCRIPTION: Destroyed Russian tank in front of a Russian village
See here for more postally used examples
2. ARTIST: Fritz Brauner
Type: II
DESCRIPTION: German Fieseler Storch reconnaissance aircraft flying low over a Russian village
See here for more postally used examples
HEFT 3 (March)
The third issue of the 1942 series of the magazine featured four postcards1. ARTIST: Wolf Strobel
Type: II
DESCRIPTION: Submarine alongside a supply ship
2. ARTIST: Wolf Strobel
Type: II
DESCRIPTION: German Submarine at sea
3. ARTIST: Max Zschoch
Type: II
DESCRIPTION: "Geleitzug" - "Convoy"
4. ARTIST: Heinz Kießling
Type: II
DESCRIPTION: Image bar farmer ploughing his field
See here for more postally used examples
HEFT 4 (April)
The fourth issue of the 1942 series of the magazine featured four postcards1. ARTIST: Max Zschoch
Type: II
DESCRIPTION: "Frühlingserwachen" - "Spring awakening"
2. ARTIST: Heinz Kießling
Type: II
DESCRIPTION: Image bar - farmer sowing seeds.
3. ARTIST: Hans O. Wendt
Type: II
DESCRIPTION: Air raid on London
4. ARTIST: Hans O. Wendt
Type: II
DESCRIPTION: Air attack on allied warships
HEFT 5 (May)
The fifth issue of the 1942 series of the magazine featured four postcards1. ARTIST: A. Werner
Type: II
DESCRIPTION: "Danebengegrißfen"
'Missed the Mark'
2. ARTIST: A. Werner
Type: II
DESCRIPTION: "Der "Bomben"-Schluß!""
"The "bomb" shot"
3. ARTIST: Max Zschoch
Type: II
DESCRIPTION: Image bar "Das Große Ei"
"The big Egg"
4. ARTIST: Heinz Kießling
Type: II
DESCRIPTION: Image bar "Spring awakening"
HEFT 6 - (June)
1. ARTIST: W. M. Busch (PK)Type: II
DESCRIPTION: Horse patrol
See here for more postally used examples
2. ARTIST: Rudolf G. Werner
Type: II
DESCRIPTION: Advance over temporary bridge
See here for more postally used examples
3. ARTIST: Max Zschoch
Type: II
DESCRIPTION: Image bar - "Liebesbriefe" - German soldiers are writing letters home
"Love letters"
4. ARTIST: Heinz Kießling
Type: II
DESCRIPTION: Image bar "Village, man with guitar"
HEFT 7 (July)
The seventh issue of the 1942 series of the magazine featured four postcards1. ARTIST: Gefr. Hans Magg
Type: II
DESCRIPTION: Soldiers at the Barber‘s Shop "BEIM KOMPANIE- "VERSHÖNERUNGSRAT"
'AT THE COMPANY "BEAUTIFULATION COUNCIL'
2. ARTIST: Gefr. Hans Magg
Type: II
DESCRIPTION: "SELTSAME SUPPENEINLAGE"
"STRANGE INGREDIENTS IN THE SOUP"
3. ARTIST: Max Zschoch
Type: II
DESCRIPTION: Image bar "Fronttheater"
Entertainment at the "Front theatre"
4. ARTIST: Heinz Kießling
Type: II
DESCRIPTION: Image bar featuring a house and a naked woman
HEFT 8 (August)
The eighth issue of the 1942 series of the magazine featured four postcards1. ARTIST: F. Sauer
Type: II
DESCRIPTION: Destroyed Russian town
2. ARTIST: F. Sauer
Type: II
DESCRIPTION: Destroyed Russian village with tanks on the road
3. ARTIST: Max Zschoch
Type: II
DESCRIPTION: "Der Storch" Image bar showing a Fieseler Storch (the stork) aircraft
"The stork"
4. ARTIST: Heinz Kießling
Type: II
DESCRIPTION: Image bar "Farmer using a scythe to gather in the harvest
HEFT 9 (September)
The ninth issue of the 1942 series of the magazine featured four postcards1. ARTIST: OGefr. H. Karl
Type: II
DESCRIPTION: Blocked Russian road slows down the German advance
2. ARTIST: OGefr. H. Karl
Type: II
DESCRIPTION: Tanks on the attack
3. ARTIST: Max Zschoch
Type: II
DESCRIPTION: Image bar "Die Feldpost"
'The field post'
4. ARTIST: Heinz Kießling
Type: II
DESCRIPTION: Image of a farmer's Thanksgiving festival
HEFT 10 (October)
The tenth issue of the 1942 series of the magazine featured four postcards1. ARTIST: Herbert Kreißig
Type: II
DESCRIPTION: "Sowjet Idyll" Life inside a Soviet farmer's house (without pigs)
'Idyllic Soviet life'
2. ARTIST: Herbert Kreißig
Type: II
DESCRIPTION: "Soviet idyll" Life inside a Soviet farmer's house (with pigs)
3. ARTIST: Max Zschoch
Type: II
DESCRIPTION: Image bar "Wellenbad"
German submarine surfaces - "Wave pool"
4. ARTIST: Heinz Kießling
Type: II
DESCRIPTION: Image bar "Farmer's Harvest festival" similar to Sep 1942 card 4.
HEFT 11 (November)
The eleventh issue of the 1942 series of the magazine featured two postcards1. ARTIST: H. v. Medvey
Type: I
DESCRIPTION: Fast boat
2. ARTIST: Unknown
Type: II
DESCRIPTION: Cruiser
HEFT 12 (December)
The final issue of the 1942 series of the magazine featured four postcards1. ARTIST: OGefr. Fritz Brauner
Type: II
DESCRIPTION: Loading a Fir tree into an aircraft
2. ARTIST: OGefr. Fritz Brauner
Type: II
DESCRIPTION: Fir tree on top of a tank
3. ARTIST: Max Zschoch
Type: II
DESCRIPTION: Image bar German troops preparing dinner "Sonderzuteilung"
"Special allocation"
4. ARTIST: Unknown
Type: II
DESCRIPTION: Soldier in the snow outside a warm hut
