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 Wehrmacht 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: 11 Issues, one per month now catalogued as heft 1, heft 2, heft 3, ... heft 11/12.
1943: 11 issues, one per month catalogued as heft 1, heft 2, heft 3, ... heft 11/12.
1944: 11 issues, one per month catalogued as heft 1, heft 2, heft 3, ... heft 11/12.

The cards can be sorted by the number of lines of publisher's text running aloong the vertical dividing line.

Type A: One line of text
Type B: Two lines of text
Type C: No text along the vertical divider.

1944 Postcards

The 1944 issue was the fifth and final series of magazine, there were 11 issues (issue 11/12 being a double issue) but none of these magazines contained any postcards.