I have been collecting WWII for many years. I am not talking about the ragular issues frm each counties but more like the "back of the book" cinderella material that is unknown to many people and sometimes very rare. This is a very interesting collection that relates the History of WWII. It delas with occupied territoriries issues, underground issues, surrounded battle area pocket covers, annexed territories, ss volunteer legion issues, camp issues, liberation stamps and many more. For a start I will post a few of my "treasures". If ther eis interest I will post more. I have lots of things to share with you!



Annexed Lorraine local village cancelation



Annexed Alsace, local covers (Strasbourg and Mulhouse)



Italian Atlantic Submarine Base in Bordeaux!

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Skipper post away friend, I have an interest as well as my father was given his fathers collection, though my grandfather was up in years he was in the upper eschelon ~ somewhat secret I must say so will not give his unit, he was actually serving on the Ost front for US forces............crazy huh ? back to topic he wa able to gather a very large collection of WW 2 and pre-war third reich stamps now in my Fathers possession and this is what really got him interested as one of his side line hobbies, I do know he has sold several huge albums for some big bucks so will have to bug him to send them up this way for copy purposes, I have seen the collection quite impresssive

Dutch Legion volunteers to the Ostfront




Azah Hind. Indian independentist Pro Nazi volunteers





Occupation of LAIBACH (Lubliana in slovenia) . German text on Italian stamps used in Yougoslavia!

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Oh my, that Dutch legion ... very nice!

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Eine Lichtung im Walde wo die Sonne scheint.
Eingeschlossen durch Bäume sind wir gefangen,
in dieser Lichtung Gottes...

French Resistance charity mail from 1944. Hand signed!



Auschwitz red cross parcel detail



Local Austrian liberation issues from 1945

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Flemmish Waffen SS. (the stamp is unfortunately damaged)

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Very nice stamp collection Skipper, thanks for posting them. I've a few lying about somewhere including I think, a complete collection of Wehrmacht postal stamps.

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Lost are only those, who abandon themselves) Hans-Ulrich Rudel.

occupation of Guernsey




Paris Resistance cover form August 1944



Occupation of the Dunkirk area in June 1940

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Very interesting collection you have skipper, especially the SS volunteer ones.

Petje af!

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Eine Lichtung im Walde wo die Sonne scheint.
Eingeschlossen durch Bäume sind wir gefangen,
in dieser Lichtung Gottes...

Ok then here are stamps for French Waffen SS volunteers



French Legion Charlemagne with Ostfront stamps. Note the Ju88!
There are also Panzers

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Very nice Skip!

May I ask as to how long it took to acquire such a marvelous collection?

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The war against Russia will be such that it cannot be conducted in a knightly fashion. This struggle is one of ideologies and racial differences and will have to be conducted with unprecedented, unmerciful and unrelenting harshness. -Adolf Hitler

It took me about 25 years to get these. here are a few from the Ostfront



Osten (Poland, Belarus)




Occupation of Latvia (German 1941 overprints on Soviet 1940 stamps)




Occupation of Ukraine

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Very nice Skipper!
My father has a collection of stamps he collected from Holland when he was young, I'll have to try to pst some in a couple of weeks!

Thanks for posting skipper!!

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Members of the Dutch Resistance with 101st AB, Eindhoven. Operation Market Garden.

Scott

Avery rare registered 1945 letter fro the Colmar Pocket (Alsace front) . This is possibly one of the last items sent in this area before the allies launched their final offensive. The registration label is from a village next door, but despite the chaos the germans kept their administrative discipline until the vey end and the letter was delivered.

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More here: the German issues of occupied Luxemburg!

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Very nice Skip. Not a stamp man myself, but still nice to see these.

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Regards,

Gordon
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http://s2.photobucket.com/albums/y20/Historian/

Glad you like it! They are all WWII issues, not post war commemorations. I am only interested in genuine war time period issues, from all participating countries.

Issues from the war time Croatian Oustachi regime (Ante Pavelitch)

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Nice collection skipper.
Very interesting, especially the Colmar Registered one.
The post must get through.

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Cheers, here are some other rare stamps. They are called "schwarzungen" in German. They are black dots put on Nazi symbols after VE Day. The authenticity is proven by the May 1945 days cancellations.

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Some more quite rare local overprints, mostly from Soviet occupied parts of Eastern Germany in May 1945.

Some cities are easy to Identify such as Döbeln or Meissen. The overprint on Adolf's head means "the man who caused the loss of Germany". I'm certain most of you did not know these GrossDeutscheReich issues were still used after the arrival of the Russians!

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Another nice sample of my collection : Liberation of a Würtenberg town with date of the Liberation and the V for Victory overprinted on Hitler.

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