PROPAGANDA POSTCARDS
(1940)

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MUSSOLINI / ADOLF HITLER MEETING
(18th Jun 1940)

BACKGROUND: These postcards were issued to commemorate the meeting between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini in Munich on 18th Jun 1940. Mussolini was accompanied by his Foreign Minister, Count Ciano who later recorded in his diary that Mussolini had left the meeting feeling embarrassed that he was now playing second fiddle to Hitler, who's armies had just secured spectacular victories over France and the Low countries, without much assistance from Mussolini.

SPECIAL CANCEL: A special cancel was made available and was inscribed "MÜNCHEN | Begegnung | Hitler Mussolini | 18.6.40. | haupstadt der Bewegung".



ABOVE LEFT: Special cancel (C)

DIE HISTORISCHE BEGEGNUNG AM 18.JUNI 1940 IN MÜNCHEN
THE HISTORIC MEETING ON 18TH JUN 1940

This series of cards from Photo Hoffmann appears to be a re-issue of the postcards first published in 1937 and is titled Die Garanten des Friedens for an earlier visit by Mussolini to Germany,

M5 - FAHRT DURCH DIE STADT
DRIVE THROUGH THE CITY

M7 - DIE HISTORISCHE BEGEGNUNG
THE HISTORICAL ENCOUNTER

ALTERNATIVE HOFFMANN SERIES

CARD No. 1150a