GET TO KNOW GERMANY POSTCARDS

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GET TO KNOW GERMANY
THE FIRST HINDENBURG SERIES
P221 / 25

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 "Essen - Burgplatz mit tausendjahrigen Münster"

'Essen - Burgplatz with the thousand-year-old cathedral'.

POSTALLY UNUSED

POSTALLY USED

1. The following postally used P221/25 postcard was a local delivery cancelled in LEIPZIG on 8th Dec 1933. The card has a very common slogan cancel inscribed "FERNSPRECHER SPART ZEIT UND GELD" - 'THE TELEPHONE SAVES TIME AND MONEY'.




2. Another postally used example, this one cancelled in LEIPZIG 53 on 8th Dec 1933





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.