GERMAN POSTAL HISTORY

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FELDPOST
POEMS of FRANZ BAYERFELS
TYPE 4

Type 4 feldpost cards all have a border composing three green lines. The sender's section features a green and brown hand-drawn image above several lines of text and the name "FRANZ BAYERFELS" in green text. The destination section has the word "FELD-POSTKARTE" and one thin line and one thick line for the address. The reverse side of the cards is blank.

1. SWORD, PLANTS and SWASTIKA

The image on the sender's side is a vertical sword and swastika in brown, flanked by two green plant fronds. The text below the image reads:

Unsere
Waffen
und unser Blaube
sind das Rüstzeug
der heimat für
den Sieg




"Our weapons and our Blades are the tools of the home for victory"

2. SWORD and PLANTS

The image on the sender's side of this card is again a vertical sword, this time without the swastika and now flanked by two different green plant fronds. The text below the image reads:

Die Lieder der
heimat sind auch die
Lieder der Schlachten,
sie sind die Urquellen
Der Siege




The songs, they are home too, songs of battles, they are the original sources of Victory

3. HAMMER and ANVIL

The image on the sender's side of this card is an anvil and other blacksmith's tools and again another different type of plant. The text below the image reads:

Die heimat ist
es, die der front
die starken Waffen
Schmiedet




The home is it that the front the strong weapons Forges

4. SWORD and IRON CROSS

The next card features an iron cross in front of a sword with two flowers, one on either side

"Was die heimat
"uns Deutschen bedeuret,
wiffen die am besten,
dir für die heimat"
kämpfen".




"What the homeland means to us Germans, they knew best to you, for the homeland battle" a quote from Franz Bayerfels

5. FLAME and OLIVE BRANCH

The image on the card features a flame and an olive branch

Jedes neue Opfer,
Welches die heimat,
auf sich nimmt, ist ein,
Schwertstreich gegen,
unsere feinde.




"Every new victim, Which is the homeland, takes upon itself is a, sword stroke against, our enemies." a quote from Franz Bayerfels

6. HAMMER and ANVIL

The card below features a sword, hammer and ear of wheat above 6 lines of texts that reads:

Heimat und
front sind
untrennbar,
unbeugsam
und unbesiegbar.
FRANZ BAYERFELS




"Home and front are inseparable, unbending and invincible. FRANZ BAYERFELS"