GET TO KNOW GERMANY POSTCARDS

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GET TO KNOW GERMANY
THE FIRST HINDENBURG SERIES
P221 / 23

The First Hindenburg 'Get to Know Germany' series appeared in early 1933 and are collectively refered to as P221. This series comprises a total of 78 different cards, 69 of them have the heading 'Lernt Deutschland Kennen!' and the remaining 9 have either 'Besucht das Grenzland' (1 example), 'Besucht das schöne Schlesien' (5 examples) or 'Prußische Staatsbader' (3 examples).

Cards of the first Hindenburg series are easily identified by the elongated tail on the 'e' of 'Postkarte'. Later issues do not have such an elongated 'e'.



The inscription below the image reads "Wartburgstadt Eisenach, | Die Wartburg von Südosten gesehen"

'Wartburgstadt Eisenach, | The Wartburg seen from the southeast'.

POSTALLY UNUSED

POSTALLY USED

1. The following postally used example was cancelled in GÖTTINGEN on 3rd Oct 1934




2. Another postally used example, this time cancelled in BERLIN-CHARLOTTENBURG on 24th Jul 1933.




3. The next example was a local usage in the city of MAGDEBURG BPA7 on 30th Jul 1934. BPA7 refers to a military or specific postal area usage (BPA 7 - Bereichs Post Amt 7 - Post Office Area 7)





These pages were compiled from several sources including, but not limited to:
1. The 'MICHEL Ganzsachen Deutschland 2018' ISBN 9783954022250
2. KATALOG der DEUTSCHEN GELEGENHEITSSTEMPEL by JULIUS BOCHMANN.