GET TO KNOW GERMANY POSTCARDS

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GET TO KNOW GERMANY
THE FIRST HINDENBURG SERIES
P221 / 58

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 'Pruβische 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 "Nordhasuen, die tausend jährige Statt am Harz | Das Neues Museum im botanischen Park"

'Nordhasuen, the thousand-year-old town in the Harz Mountains. The New Museum in the Botanical Park'.

POSTALLY UNUSED

POSTALLY USED

1. The following postally used P221/58 postcard was cancelled in CHEMNITZ on 16th Aug 1933 and was sent to LEIPZIG. This example has a slogan cancel inscribed "FERNSPRECHER | SPART ZEIT UND GELD" - 'Use the telephone, it saves time and money'





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.