Hitler's Image Used in Postwar Germany

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Жыл бұрын

Though almost every element of Nazi Germany was banned after the surrender, Hitler's image continued to be used after May 1945, and continued in service under Allied approval into 1946. The reason was because of extreme need and practicality.
Thanks to subscriber Ron Huppert for suggesting this fascinating topic.
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@wetwillyis_1881 Жыл бұрын

My Great-Grandmother had a huge stamp collection, and when we found it, we were amazed to find so many Hitler stamps.

@valdomero738 Жыл бұрын

I'd buy some.

@valdomero738 Жыл бұрын

They are probably worth little fortune seach.

@y_ffordd Жыл бұрын

@@valdomero738you can still buy them at German flew markets for cheap

@treystephens6166 Жыл бұрын

@@valdomero738 I want a flag.

@chrisbelvedere6653 Жыл бұрын

Sounds like your grandmother was a very smart lady.

@jonathanljohnson Жыл бұрын

I went through a stamp collecting phase as a boy and thought it very odd that there were so many stamps available with the picture of Hitler on them; now I understand why!

@shellman5844 Жыл бұрын

Yes. Collecting stamps as a kid I had quite a few Hitler stamps. The stamp market was flooded with them and they were quite cheap to buy.

@solushyperborea Жыл бұрын

because he was the greatest man to ever live maybe XDD

@Chevdriver Жыл бұрын

@@shellman5844 you can still get nos ones fairly cheap

@-danR Жыл бұрын

Mark Felton has just doubled the value of undefaced Shickelgrüber stamps.

@francisdec1615 Жыл бұрын

I still have some stamps with Hitler on them.

@InCountry6970 Жыл бұрын

In 1984 I visited a friend living in Munich and he had an old stamp collection. I asked if they were still valid and he said no. I decided to test this and mailed a post card to a buddy of mine in CA and used the correct denomination of a red colored stamp with a picture of Hitler and Mussolini in profile on the stamp. My friend received the post card and the stamp had the correct post mark stamp approval. My German friend said that the post card must have passed through the hands of an old German postal worked and he approved it and sent it on. I still have it today. Pretty remarkable

@howardsimpson489 Жыл бұрын

Perhaps it was a precursor AI cancelling machine and not very bright.

@MyRegardsToTheDodo Жыл бұрын

@@howardsimpson489 In 1984 those were done manually, I guess the post official in the German office didn't care or it slipped by and once it was in the system it got transported to it's destination, and once it left Germany nobody actually knew how a German stamp looked. Especially in the 1980s they were a mess anyways, you had atleast three different German stamps, those issued in West Germany, those issued in East Germany and those issued in West Berlin (which was a special district with it's own stamps, due to it being basically an enclave under allied/West German control).

@the_Googie Жыл бұрын

Thats an interesting story. Im suprised they didn't receive a letter from any officials, the police, etc. Since a deliberate use of a Hitler stamp might trigger an investigation from the Verfassungsschutz (constitutional watch)

@robs5688 6 ай бұрын

Funny, but yeah, it was obviously either a result of a mistake, or some postal worker's idea of a joke. Also, it was just a postcard. Try it with a first class letter and it probably won't go through.

@AudieHolland 4 ай бұрын

I remember when I was a child, the bi-weekly magazine we received via school, Taptoe, featured an article where they had sent various mail with fantasy stamps that they created themselves. One was a postcard/ansichtkaart with writing on both sides (no image) and drawn stamps on both sides, although the delivery addresses varied on each side. All mail was sent via the Dutch postage system and everything arrived at its destination. The aforementioned postcard was received by the person on the first address. Although it was already stamped (on one side), that person mailed it again and the postcard was delivered to the address on the other side of the card. The Dutch mail did not stamp it a second time though. The article started with a disclaimer: don't try this yourself.

@maxjoechl5663 11 ай бұрын

4:55 The 'poem' on the stamp reads: _"Blood and tears his seeds - his works were but misdeeds"_ (I tried to stay as literal as possible while preserving the rhyme)

@shutup2751 Жыл бұрын

it's eerie and strange how something as simple as a stamp used one day to send a simple card or letter to someone then represents a bygone era the next day

@zackkilgore528 Жыл бұрын

A little ominous isn’t it? Heck imagine how it’s completely plausible how something ubiquitous today would become a collector’s item tomorrow

@DaveSCameron Жыл бұрын

Very much so yes, last September when Queen Elizabeth II died it was a real What Now moment that I never saw coming. Best wishes 🙏 🇬🇧

@zackkilgore528 Жыл бұрын

@@DaveSCameron start collecting her coins

@Vingul Жыл бұрын

@@DaveSCameron aye, none of us thought the queen would ever die.

@DaveSCameron Жыл бұрын

@@Vingul Strange as that sounds correct. 👍

@royboy9361 Жыл бұрын

Always making time for a Mark Felton video, it’s time well spent. IMO.

@janefrost1856 Жыл бұрын

I agree, you know what you're going to get, and most of them are not too long, so I can watch them during my break

@samlandau372 Жыл бұрын

I concur fully!

@MikeHunt-zh6lt Жыл бұрын

You can remove the imo and replace it with objectively

@ryecreeks Жыл бұрын

Roy Boy: Ditto, sir! 👍👍

@crosstiewalker803 Жыл бұрын

I'll bet herr drumpf would've tried to get his orange face on US Postage stamps, and he would've expected a cut from every stamp sold.

@geigertec5921 Жыл бұрын

There is an especially rare "Scratch N' Sniff" Hitler stamp produced exclusively in Bavaria for the year 1938. You scratch it and it evokes a smell of edelweiss. A holographic Hitler stamp from 1940 is a little more common, when viewed from different sides the image of Hitler sticks its tounge out. These stamps were made in part due to the Hitler-Youth recruitment efforts, in addition to the Nazi-Party trading card game, where children would recieve various Nazi-party official's images on trading cards that also listed their rank and past achievements. The rarest trading card was Scheubner-Richter, of which only one was produced and said to have been in the posession of Hitler.

@johncox2865 Жыл бұрын

Would have thought it smelled BROWN.

@RemnantCult Жыл бұрын

I almost believed you for a second!

@il_principe Жыл бұрын

Hahaha good one

@anglishbookcraft1516 Жыл бұрын

They also came out with a Dr Goebbels hungry hungry hippo game. Where Goebbels eats cyanide pills

@geigertec5921 Жыл бұрын

Also a variant of the board game Clue where you have to determine who burned down the reichstag. It's heavily implied throughout the game that it was the Jewish Communist in the parlor with the candle stick.

@jangelbrich7056 Жыл бұрын

Some small details: Hitler did not appear on stamps before 1937, 4 years after his taking power. And even after that, his image was rather rare on a few non-definitive stamps, e.g. to celebrate his birthday. Only in August 1941, the definitive series shown here came out, when the war was already waging since 2 years.

@kbanghart Жыл бұрын

I'm sure no stamps were considered until Hitler had his official "headshots" or Nazi glamour shots or whatever they called their official photographs LOL. Hitler with all the different poses and outfits.

@martingrzanna2005 Жыл бұрын

The stamp with "Blut und Tränen seine Saat, sein Wirken war nur Missetat" means "blood and tears were his seed, his doing was nothing but misdeed"

@faithlesshound5621 Жыл бұрын

That rhymes! Does it have a literary origin?

@martingrzanna2005 Жыл бұрын

@@faithlesshound5621 sorry dont know

@Canleaf08 4 ай бұрын

It is up to this generation, not to repeat the same error again, to bring people like H to power.

@stingray2134 Жыл бұрын

My Dad was a big stamp collector. He was drafted very late in the war and by the time he finished training the war had ended. He was assigned to brining German POWs back to Germany from the US. When he was over there he bought many Hitler stamps in uncut sheet form. I remember him showing me two books of just German WWII era stamps that he had brought back with him. When he passed in 2001, my Stepmom so,d his entire collection. I just wanted those two books.

@tobilinooo Жыл бұрын

He "bought"...LoL...you mean he stole them. American soldiers entered private homes and stole photo albums, and other things. Jewelry and other things were also looted. This stolen property, like your grandfather's, can often be found at auctions today.

@paulorchard7960 Жыл бұрын

Thats a shame!😢

@aka99 Жыл бұрын

It is, but typically human behavior of his stepmom, just wanted to make money. No sense for history. Hopefully the stamps are in a place worshipping them.

@stingray2134 Жыл бұрын

@@aka99 She, I believe was probably overwhelmed by the amount of his stamp collection. She said she asked if anyone wanted his stamps. I just don’t remember that??

@stsk7 Жыл бұрын

@@aka99 worshipping?

@Nakai_the_Wanderer Жыл бұрын

One of the pictures in the video shows a "Fenseh-Sprechstelle" (TV-intercom), which is a very interesting piece of German history. It was the first German network for video telephony, allowing such communication between several post offices in some big cities in Germany. Due to the war, this network was not expanded as much as it was planned, but it is still interesting to imagine how far the technology had come before the war wiped out many of these civilian technological advances.

@grumblesa10 Жыл бұрын

They were on the brink of bringing TV to the population when the war began.

@RVail623 Жыл бұрын

German for "television set" is: "Fernsehgerät", which literally translates in English as: "far see device".

@faithlesshound5621 Жыл бұрын

@@RVail623 It's striking how German scientists and engineers did NOT have the rest of the West's penchant for making up new words from Latin and Greek roots. There was a minor movement in England to replicate what the Germans had done, but it had little support. That's "Anglish." E.G. "farspeech" instead of "telephone," and "folkwain" instead of "omnibus." The German equivalent would be "Volkswagen."

@krollpeter Жыл бұрын

Exactly! It is striking to see more and more of how far they had become already before WW2. Hitler wanted to be the leader of the leading race - what an idiot. He could have been the leader of the no. 1 technological advanced country, so it seems.

@kbanghart Жыл бұрын

@@faithlesshound5621 great point, I'm curious about that.

@EVILDR235 Жыл бұрын

My good friend in California has a house that was orginally built for housing WW2 Navel personel and their familes. After WW2 the houses were sold for $1.00 U.S. , but had to be moved from their present location. The man who owned the house before my friend and had it moved about four miles to where it is now. When my friend bought the house in the late 1970's , he went about remodeling it. In one of the walls he found a WW2 era letter that was sent home by a G.I. to his family and it had a couple of dozen Hitler / Nazi stamps in it.

@kbanghart Жыл бұрын

Where was this? I'm in CA.

@EVILDR235 Жыл бұрын

@@kbanghart The house now is in American Canyon half way between Napa and Vallejo. The house in question came from Shipyard Acres. I remember Shipyard Acres in the 1960's. At that time all that was left was concrete pads where houses use to be and streets. It was a favorite place for people to race go karts.

@Andy-ScotsIrish-TheGAEL. Жыл бұрын

That's cool man. Thanks for sharing 👍 I discovered a collection in the 🇬🇧 Working at a wasteyard/recycling yard. I guess this particular waste was from a old people home or someone's home who passed on, Huge stamps collection book of many nations, but the one that stood out was obviously Germany and the Hitler stamps. I couldn't see it be destroyed and gone forever, being into history and all I swooped that to one side, took it home, it sat in my cupboard in it's original filthy state, from being in a pile on the floor until I waa on the conveyor belt and seen it.

@davidbarr9343 Жыл бұрын

As a young lad in the sixties I had several of these stamps in my collection. They were widely available from stamp vendors in the UK. Excellent video as usual from Dr Felton.

@dajjukunrama5695 Жыл бұрын

Varför skriver du på globalistisk English? Varför?

@zippolighter4903 11 ай бұрын

@@dajjukunrama5695wut

@davidbarr9343 11 ай бұрын

@@dajjukunrama5695 I am Scottish/ British, therefore I write in English. Stupid question! Even from a turnip.😂

@morriskaller3549 5 ай бұрын

@@dajjukunrama5695tror du kommenterat på fel video grabben

@mattbarbarich3295 Жыл бұрын

The most common overprints which I've seen and have in my collections is with the verticle black bars, especially used in Austria. Never seen any of those with the black circles , thanks for showing those Dr Felton. It's sad that so many people give up collecting stamps when they reach their late teens, it's a treasure trove of history and social information.

@CoronadoBruin Жыл бұрын

I'm sure others have posted earlier the translation of the 6 Dm stamp but here it is: Blood and tears his seed (moment), his work (action) was but iniquity (misdeed) (Blut und tränen seine Saat, sein Wirken war nur Missetat).

@FormallyknownasE100 Жыл бұрын

So I know my Granny’s stepfather become the British sector postmaster immediately after the war in Berlin from 45 to 46/47 we believe. My Grandfather was an avid stamp collector and after his death around 15 years ago we discovered mint condition sheets in several large boxes (think a few boxes of printer paper) of both over stamped and non-over stamped Hitler faced stamps. When these were sold at auction they apparently crashed the market somewhat 😂

@philipthomey7884 Жыл бұрын

The price dropped because the market was flooded. No longer a rarity but still collectable . I had a wonderful collection too and it was stolen.

@suzyqualcast6269 Жыл бұрын

@@philipthomey7884 I had Hitler red stamps. and reichmarks/pfennigs, ¿?, brass and alys. Most vanished after I was divorced and lost hand to all.

@MyRegardsToTheDodo Жыл бұрын

Around 15 years ago the market pretty much crashed because stamp collecting is basically dying as a hobby. There are no new stamp collectors comming along and the old collectors are dying out, eventually the hobby will be a thing of the past.

@wayneantoniazzi2706 Жыл бұрын

Now THAT was a bit of a shocker! I wasn't surprised at the the video concerning German Army engineer, signals, and MP units being kept intact for a time after the war but I never thought about postage stamps! Thanks Doctor Felton, thanks to you I learn something new darn near every day!

@PSMCR69 Жыл бұрын

Next video probably will be on Hitler's antique fingerprint

@wayneantoniazzi2706 Жыл бұрын

@@PSMCR69 I heard his mustasche is in a military museum in Moscow.

@MyRegardsToTheDodo Жыл бұрын

@@wayneantoniazzi2706 His skull or atleast parts of it actually is in Moscow (that was confirmed).

@MyRegardsToTheDodo Жыл бұрын

Well, Nazi German banknotes and coins were still valid until the currency reform of 1948. There were coins with lower denominations minted without the Nazi symbols (the old coins were still valid, though), but as far as I know there were no new bank notes until the D-Mark was released in 1948, so the old notes were still used for around three years. You couldn't really buy anything with them, but they were still official currency. And they didn't have Hitler's image on them, but quite a lot of Nazi symbols (for example, there was a 5 Reichsmark note glorifying the Hitlerjugend). Oh, and the Soviets actually kept three concentration camps up and running until 1950, partially with the same inmates the Nazis had placed there. There was one inmate who died under the Soviets after being put into the camp by the Nazis. That fact was left out by the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) when they turned these camps into museums.

@DonnaChamberson 5 ай бұрын

Jesus teaches us something new every day! In this case, he taught us about Hitler.

@TerribleShmeltingAccident Жыл бұрын

I haven’t been this early since I was married

@yellowjackboots2624 Жыл бұрын

Get up Early, go down a Longstreet, over two Hills, in the Lee of a Stonewall.

@carltonleboss Жыл бұрын

Bruhhh

@bele2.041 Жыл бұрын

I think you mean premature.

@1949bug Жыл бұрын

Haha 😂 bloody brilliant 👌

@panathatube Жыл бұрын

You came soon

@sidewinder666666 Жыл бұрын

A very good example of "post-war pragmatism". Great job researching the variants which occupied countries had to use as well.

@Lanwarder Жыл бұрын

Honestly, even before you mentioned it my thought was "They should have made sure to deface the stamps". Another great Mark Felton video. as always. Thanks for the content.

@TheSmsawyer Жыл бұрын

I remember coming across stamps like these and Il Duche stamps in gift shops in places like Lichtenstein and San Marino. They couldn't have been original prints. You ask them why they are selling reprints of fascist stamps and their general answer is something along the lines of, "They sell."

@wildbikerbill6530 Жыл бұрын

"A fool and his money are soon parted"

@mr.wallace1074 Жыл бұрын

I have several of these stamps with "Ukraine" superimposed on them. Your video had me dig up my old collection from years ago. Another "set of seven" (unmarked) containing different denominations in unused condition cost 25 US cents back in the early 1970's. This collection survived a house fire twenty years ago, although the album did suffer from minor water damage.

@jamesbednar8625 Жыл бұрын

Good video!!! As a kid growing up during the 1960s-1970s I was an avid stamp collector. Can remember going to the local hobby shop and buying a bag of used international stamps every now and then. You were almost certainly going to get at least 4 of these stamps in each bag, regardless of denomination. My collection, which I still have, was almost complete. Also, after being stationed in West Germany while in US Army during the 1980s, I would visit German stamp shops and these stamps in mint condition as well - have at least 1 complete set. Can also remember the Germans being a bit "reluctant" to sell WWII era stamps to a scrawny/snot-nosed American for whatever reason they had, but purchase some I did. THANKS!! for the memories.

@nematolvajkergetok5104 Жыл бұрын

There were two more examples of the Third Reich formally surviving itself. One was in Austria, the other in Hungary, and the latter is pretty hilarious. In Austria, employment record booklets (Arbeitsbuch) issued in the Nazi era remained in use until their users retired or lost them for some reason. These booklets were retained by employers, and only handed back to the employees if they left their position. Adorned by a swastika and a Nazi eagle, they were still pretty common in the 1960s. In Hungary, a small city square, today called "Kodály körönd", used to be "Hitler square" for a short period of time in 1944-1945. Of course, it was promptly given back its old name, "Körönd" after the war, and some decades later it was renamed again in honor of the great musical composer, Zoltán Kodály. However, it was still marked as "Hitler tér" on the city utility map for many decades. A lady at the Budapest Water Works had the job of updating the map every year, and marking changes in the network. This, in practice, meant copying and redrawing the entire map over and over again. Since there were never any changes here, she just copied everything, including the name. Nobody even noticed it until she retired in the early 1990s. It's quite remarkable that even during the 1950s, it never crossed her mind that she may end up in a reeducation camp for this...

@Benjey657 Жыл бұрын

I think drivers licenses from the Wehrmacht could be used in Germany until very recently I think. Heard some baffled police officers seeing some 90 year olds driving with that.

@AA-ke5cu Жыл бұрын

Nazi's die hard; millions of their spawn survive scattered all over the globe.

@hippiesaboteur2556 Жыл бұрын

I can just imagine the initial reaction and look on the polizei's face when first realizing what it was they were looking at, and I'm sure said officer had to be in just utter dismay & disbelief, and furthermore probably decided to just give the old timer a warning & let him go. I mean 90+/- years old or not, I don't think I'd wanna screw with some geriatric German vet with the Reich-issued credentials to prove it

@metapolitikgedanken612 Жыл бұрын

On the other hand. Why be uptight about it?

@kbanghart Жыл бұрын

Very cool story about the employee in Hungary, but I'm curious, do we know why she always kept the same name? Maybe she was advised to by someone else?

@NasimNowshad Жыл бұрын

It is 8:30 am in the morning on a weekend holiday in Dhaka Bangladesh. I have just watched this video of yours, Mark and feel delighted. I have been collecting stamps now for more than 44 years. This particular video of yours have made me extraordinarily happy and it's a nice start to the weekend holiday 💗🙏🏾

@evilchaosboy Жыл бұрын

That is how I was first introduced to Hitler. As a young lad I saw my Mom's stamp collection and, of course, wanted my own stamp collection. She had an old empty collecting book and took me to the book store and the stamp collecting section. (I don't know if they still have these, but at the time you could buy an envelope of used stamps torn off the corners mail.) They were perfect for a beginner because you received a ton and they were from like _EVERYWHERE_ . So, as I was sticking stamps into my book, one day, my Pops happened by and was complimenting me on my collection. I had just stuck in a new one when he told me that man on that stamp was a BAD MAN...VERY BAD. I'm sure he told me his name, but that was all. It was enough though to, many years later, to begin a "thirst for knowledge" that has never stopped since about _"THE BAD MAN"_ . Thanks for a swell show, sir.

@Drew-bc7zj 11 ай бұрын

LOL You remind me of the Pakistani on Seinfeld who was angry at Jerry. "BAD MAN. VERY BAD." (wags finger)

@MikehMike01 5 ай бұрын

Propaganda is very effective

@emilianozamora399 5 ай бұрын

@@MikehMike01says you. Worships a man who ended his own life 80 years ago

@chuckymcchuckface8768 Жыл бұрын

Once this notification popped up on my phone, I couldn't get the kids to sleep quick enough to get watching it! Thanks Dr Felton.

@censured-again Жыл бұрын

Denazification was supposed to be all-encompassing. I found an eagle on a building in Berchtesgaden in 2015. I was amazed it was still there considering the area and being so close to where the Berghof's remains are. The eagle had a hakenkreuz inside the wreath beneath the eagle.

@rickglorie Жыл бұрын

That region still has fond memories I guess.

@AtheistOrphan Жыл бұрын

Featured at 1:48. Mark has done a video about that very subject, and there are NONE with the original symbol still intact.

@censured-again Жыл бұрын

@AtheistOrphan That may be true. There is nothing to mark or indicate the origin of the former Little Reich Chancellery in Bischofwiesen.

@scottkrafft6830 6 ай бұрын

@@AtheistOrphan That's not true. Digital Cosmonaut found some abandoned buildings with them. They were in the Soviet zone.

@EdMcF1 Жыл бұрын

Imagine the shock outside the country of getting a letter from Germany in late 1945 with one of those stamps still on it.

@pokerofaces Жыл бұрын

You think it's click bait but then you remember it's a Mark Felton video!

@shugo541 Жыл бұрын

I wonder if Hitler referred to them as “mein stampfs”

@Potato_1108 Жыл бұрын

Lol

@muminahzahid541 5 ай бұрын

@@Potato_1108😂😂😂😂

@BDESal 4 ай бұрын

Hahahaha

@joshrabatin Жыл бұрын

Thank You Dr. Felton! every time I see Your documentaries pop up it's like seeing the next episode of one of My favorite series 😎

@Pixxelshim Жыл бұрын

Your work is so appreciated!!

@jonamshapouri1518 Жыл бұрын

I’m all about that bass

@ayushranjan3861 Жыл бұрын

where is that from

@DonaldJTrump47 Жыл бұрын

No treble

@lydiaramento-tipon4772 Жыл бұрын

Your postings are always a welcome addition to the cache of knowledge !!,

@edsherman2092 Жыл бұрын

Very well done Mark! I am an avid stamp collector and found this video quite informative. Great job, hope you do more documentaries like this one that include postage stamps.

@kingofsnakes1000 Жыл бұрын

This channel and Dr. Felton taught me that no matter how much we may think we may know about a subject, we should never stop studying. Also cannot wait for the day Dr. Felton makes a video on the batons of the Third Reich's Field Marshals and Grand Admirals.

@Alaskancrabpuffs21 Жыл бұрын

As a stamp collector I've amassed quite of few of these stamps. They are quite common

@TheWeatherbuff Жыл бұрын

Thank you, Mark! Your vids are excellent and I always look forward to them. Plus, your theme music gets stuck in my head... and I'm in media, which means it's effective! Cheers, Sir! 😊

@2uksteve Жыл бұрын

Another very useful addition to your collection of valuable insights. Just one correction; "tränen" translates to "tears" and not "trauma".

@r2gelfand Жыл бұрын

Wow, der Fuhrer still had a role to play in post war Germany. I never knew. In fact, I have many of those stamps and now I can pretty much tell when they were used, during the war or after the war. Very informative and interesting video.

@patrikpass2962 6 ай бұрын

3:40 weird. I thought it was the allies who reduced Berlin to rubble.

@richardwainwright507 6 ай бұрын

Really defending Hitler huh

@patrikpass2962 6 ай бұрын

@@richardwainwright507 Nope. Just stating facts. The documentaries reasoning would mean that its the US fault that someone else did 9/11. Wait...

@richardwainwright507 6 ай бұрын

@@patrikpass2962 You realize Hitler started the war by annexing Poland right? Berlin would be in one peace if he didnt attack an ally of Britain. Your analogy doesn’t work.

@metallicasnake Жыл бұрын

Really enjoy every one of your videos, Dr. Felton. Thank you for making history so easy to enjoy and learn from.

@robescalante6352 Жыл бұрын

Wow - I never thought of this - excellent Dr. Felton!

@TheMarslMcFly Жыл бұрын

This is something I actually never thought about, and as a German I learned **a ton** about WW2 and the time after in school. I'm honestly a bit surprised the Allies didn't just destroy the stamps and instead use their own stamps from the UK/US/France and Russia. You'd think it shouldn't be to hard to bring them to Germany, even with so much destroyed.

@Weeboslav Жыл бұрын

I used to have a post stamp with hitler and mussollini on it(my father got it from his German friend and it was used if I remember correctly). It was one of thousand post stamps my father had collected from many countries. Unfortunately,my brother sold them all to get drug money. On other hand,I still have a coin from 1940 with mussolini's face on it that I found on the street some 20 years ago

@fluttzkrieg4392 Жыл бұрын

Drugs are a poison that damages not only the user, but every person they know as well.

@ivanmihaelmatkovic2464 Жыл бұрын

I know the stamp you speak of, it was issued in 1941, I believe. It's red and used the offset technique. It had the Reichsadler and the Fascio on it with the images of Hitler and Mussolini and the saying "Zwei Völker - ein Kampf" (Two peoples, one struggle). I believe a mint not hinged stamp is 8€ catalogue value.

@censured-again Жыл бұрын

@ivanmihaelmatkovic2464 I have two of these used. One is still on the addressed envelope.

@redgydewulf3087 Жыл бұрын

Mussolini's face was never on official italian coins. Although the reverse of the 20 centesimi 1940 may bear some resemblance. But as that same face of the 20 centesimi was reutilized on the 5 Lire after the war, that must definitively not have been Mussilini's.

@MyRegardsToTheDodo Жыл бұрын

@@censured-again The envelope is probably worth more than the stamp. There are people who collect mail from that time.

@cat_city2009 Жыл бұрын

I could imagine Allied soldiers sending mail home from Germany with Hitler stamps as a joke.

@maizie9454 Жыл бұрын

I so appreciate your varied and detailed subject matter. thank you. history is much more than dates and names.

@rhoetusochten4211 Жыл бұрын

I used to have some of those. Bought them in a class auction from my social studies teacher. I might have been the only person willing to make an offer. To me, the historical value was worth the odd looks I received.

@christiancolson Жыл бұрын

Again another well-researched historical talk by Mark. Keep up the good work. 😊

@CS-rh2ce Жыл бұрын

Great video Mark! Love your channel so much, you always have informative videos!

@fuferito Жыл бұрын

05:18 The Czekoslovak Hussite chalice is just one example of the longevity of symbols.

@daystatesniper01 Жыл бұрын

Another very interesting nugget of history Mark ,thank you .

@ryanreedgibson Жыл бұрын

I always get excited when I see a Mark video in my feed.

@fjdkfdfjdf33 Жыл бұрын

Your best delivery yet!

@DJ_Pigg Жыл бұрын

So that's why my dad (1936-1999) had a few sheet of these stamps in his collection! Interesting video, I hadn't thought about them having to be used post-war

@fluffysquishball Жыл бұрын

Top tier video as usual Mark; what would we do without you?

@MotownWes Жыл бұрын

A strange bit of history I had never heard of before. Thanks for the enlightenment Mark.

@Hollows1997 Жыл бұрын

Another question answered that I hadn’t even considered before. As always, thank you Dr Felton!

@infantinofan Жыл бұрын

I lived in West Germany in 1959-1960 when 10-11 years old and managed to get several Hitler head and other Nazi era stamps for my collection from local stamp collectors. Still have them 60 years later.

@ajsilva1973 Жыл бұрын

I've learned so much from watching your videos. Thank you!

@vp5633 Жыл бұрын

No, thank you for watching! My pleasure 😊

@sealove79able Жыл бұрын

A great very interesting video and topic Mr.Felton as always. Now there is no need to mention the war we are all friends now... . Have a good one. Can you make a video about the post WWII Czechoslovakia?

@scottanddebranelson8419 Жыл бұрын

dude how old are you really? how in the world do you even THINK of this stuff? jokes aside, you are a rare breed sir and i for one greatly appreciate not only you as person but as a link to a part of our history that MUST not be forgotten (though i fear it is) the sacrifices made to fight evil such as this can never be understated. and you help to keep that from happening. thank you very much for that.

@doberski6855 Жыл бұрын

Fascinating as usual Dr. Felton. Am surprised to learn that the Allied planners didn't have something preplanned for the issue. Having the British, Canadian or U.S. postal services prepare and print batches of generic stamps that could be used. Or even put the French or postal services of other liberated European nations to the task.

@Ironman1o1 Жыл бұрын

In fairness to the allies, this sort of nation rebuilding was the first of its kind. I bet simply no one thought of it when "How do we beat hitler" and not "What to do with Germany" was top on the mind.

@TheColonialGamer131 Жыл бұрын

His a Dr?

@fintonmainz7845 Жыл бұрын

Not their job. The Germans claimed that the Nazis were a dictatorship with little support. It was up to the Germans to prove themselves. They failed.

@edwardscott3262 Жыл бұрын

@@Ironman1o1 It was really minor oversight. They are just stamps after all. The allies did make big plans for rebuilding some completely unneeded. They commissioned armored tractors out of fear farmers wouldn't want to harvest their crops and such. It turned out they had the opposite problem and farmers didn't necessarily want to wait for a war to pass to do their job. Lamborghini started out making farm equipment like tractors out of spare military parts.

@genericpersonx333 Жыл бұрын

Mind, the Allies had limits to their resources and diverting thousands of tons of paper to start replacing Germans stamps while there was a war ongoing with the Empire of Japan was not desirable. Especially when one considers that it looked like defeating Japan would require the bloody reduction of the Japanese home islands one village at a time. The Allies were keen to exploit the fact that Germany was still a relatively wealthy nation despite the damage. Germans had paper, machines, and more. All the Allies really needed to do was organize the Germans to start using German resources for German needs again. This would let the Allies focus their shipping on those resources that Germans couldn't supply for themselves adequately, like food and medicine. Thus, most of the "aid" shipped to Germany after the surrender was in the form of food and agricultural equipment to get German farms running again so Germans didn't starve and could focus on rebuilding themselves under Allied supervision.

@65sneaky Жыл бұрын

Just when you think youve covered most of WW2, you pop up with this little gem. Thank you for all the great work. I'd be interested to see a video of how the Propaganda used by Gorbals translated in how the world was manipulated over the last 3 years. Contentious I know, but the play book seems damn near the same.

@jonathanljohnson Жыл бұрын

Have no fear, millions of people fought in that war, in some capacity or other, all over the world; most of these could make an interesting synopsis, at very least!

@Ass_of_Amalek Жыл бұрын

goebbels-->apply standard english mispronounciation-->spell out mispronounciation-->gorbals 🤦

@Slippindisc Жыл бұрын

If you think that the propaganda machine we currently live under is the brain child of “GoRbals”, and only just started noticing it in the last 3 years, you really are as dim a bulb as your spelling would imply. At least go back to the Frankfurt School, if you’d like to have an idea of where we are and who brought us here. After that, find yourself some interviews of Yuri Bezmenov. Keep thinking until you understand.

@Rosnoseros Жыл бұрын

That's silly Goebbels and Hitler are on record praising western propaganda.

@censured-again Жыл бұрын

@@PSMCR69NO, it will be a sample of his used toilet paper.

@christopherm5428 Жыл бұрын

Thanks mr Felton for another interesting video. I to have some of these stamps in my collection.

@leonardcroft1467 Жыл бұрын

Thank You Dr. Felton Always Enjoy Your Videos

@BroccoliRocks Жыл бұрын

I remember seeing something a few years ago where a building where a swastika was removed after the war still had the "footprint" of one due to surrounding dirt on the building. Contemporary times and power washers enabled it to be washed away.

@stanwhalley3083 Жыл бұрын

Another valuable segment of history, little know to most post WWII children. Thank you sir.

@davemcddd Жыл бұрын

Dr. Mark uncovers yet another historical fact that I was totally unaware of.

@eze8970 Жыл бұрын

TY, unusual, informative & interesting! 🙏🙏

@Caligulashorse1453 Жыл бұрын

My dad has a massive stamp collection I’m not super huge into stamp collecting but it’s kinda cool to know some of the history within his collection

@jakethetool698 Жыл бұрын

Although each of these videos is captivating, I’d love to hear one, about the Sullivan brothers. My mom has an original poster, showing the five brothers, displayed in her home. Looking at it, has always stirred some emotion.

@jimsharp5044 Жыл бұрын

Something I didn’t know. Never to old to learn. Thanks Mr Mark!!

@barrydysert2974 Жыл бұрын

Thank You Dr Felton for this fabulous foray into philately! 🙏

@tttyuhbbb9823 Жыл бұрын

That was brilliant, Dr. Mark!

@anonymousanonymous7250 Жыл бұрын

I found some old German postage stamps in our family attic, as my mother would collect postage stamps as a child; the shock was quite something.

@ronhuppert2410 Жыл бұрын

A shout out from Dr. Felton, I’m honored. I feel like I knelt and Dr. Felton tapped my shoulder with a sword!

@nazo3499 Жыл бұрын

Greetings, Mark Felton. Huge fan of the channel and of your great literacy and research about the matters of discussion, been binging it for a couple of days already. Loved recently the Denmark saved by the Canadians one, which could have altered events greatly in the second half of the century and, as a segue to that, I wonder if you could make a video about how Bonn came to be the capital of the West Germany government. I would have expected it to be either Hamburg, Münich or some other city in the Rhein. Although the first one could be explained due to it being mostly destroyed because of the 1943 Allied air bombings and the second held too much significance to the old nazi regime and would have brought much criticism internationally. If not, appreciate any comments to bring light on the matter. Keep up the great work!

@dongilleo9743 Жыл бұрын

I am wondering if anything similar happened with German currency notes and coins. I imagine there still had to be some medium of exchange besides just barter and trade. I know eventually there was money created for the western zones of occupation, but it would have taken some time. How would you pay for stamps in the immediate post war era except with war time money?

@korbell1089 Жыл бұрын

Not sure if it was intentional or not but by flooding the stamp collecting market with those insured that even today they aren't worth much.😅😅

@honeysucklecat Жыл бұрын

You do great work, thanks!

@DenariHD Жыл бұрын

Another absolute banger of a video from mark.

@michaelporzio7384 Жыл бұрын

Excellent Hollywood movie about post war Germany, the Billy Wilder comedy "A Foreign Affair" starring Marlene Dietrich. Wilder had first hand experience in post-war Germany and there were some humorous aspects (such as this) to the Denazification process. Thanks Dr. Felton.

@sjTHEfirst Жыл бұрын

Wow, that is messed up. Did something similar happen in Japan? You would think the Allies would have been prepared for this, and had stamps already made

@AL-yk9on 7 ай бұрын

Amazing information . Appreciate your videos

@skar9142 Жыл бұрын

Compliments to the chanell for the excellent quality of sound

@oesypum Жыл бұрын

The cessation of the postal services, and their gradual reinstatement is a vast subject, and deserving of its own mini series. Not mentioned is the post that was overrun by the allied advance, much was destroyed, but some was delivered after the cessation of hostilities. It is known as Überroller Post, there is no simple one word translation. The subject needs to be broasched in relation to the various Allied Zones, as there is little commonality between them. Many of the larger conurbations produced their own labells (stamps), particularly in the Soviet Zone, but not exclusively. Stamps for the Western areas of occupation had been printed prior to war's end, the AMPOST issues first issued in Aachen in 'March 1945, their use followed behind the Allied advance, however even when the guns fell silent, some areas in the Weatern Zones could not be readily accessed due to damaged infrastructure, roads rail, and bridges. The German post Office vehicle fleet was almost non existent, many of the vehiclles having been pressed into military service n the latter months of the war. A task for which they were never suitable, let alone designed. There are several Philatelic Study Groups that focus on the Postal History of Germany in the immediate aftermath. Again they are chiefly tied to one of the Zones.

@rickglorie Жыл бұрын

Uberroller is roll over I think

@oesypum Жыл бұрын

@@rickglorie Überroller describes mail posted in one period (i.e during hostilities), and is delivered in another (peacetime), now find one word that explains both circumstances. Note it is spelt with Ü not U

@rickglorie Жыл бұрын

@@oesypum that would be rollover then. In IT the word is used for a fluent migration to a new environment or new version of software. It's not on the scale of a regime change though. German has a tendency to write überroller without a space, in english they don't. Thank you for your excellent explanation.

@shesh2265 Жыл бұрын

5:10 you phrased this strangely, I think non german speakers will not understand that Österreich = Austria, and not some "word"

@rennoc6478 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for the clarification

@troychristman5662 Жыл бұрын

Great video! I have a sheet of these I inherited from my grandfather, who was a WW2 vet (in the pacific theater) and a lifelong stamp collector. This explains their prominence!

@debrakleid5752 Жыл бұрын

I’m amazed at the content for these videos. I learned a lot about WW2 and thought I knew quite a bit and then I see more of your videos that amaze me with the content that you have come up with. Thanks for another video that is well done!

@aka99 Жыл бұрын

i am pretty sure there is a ton of information abpout ww2 what we can learn.

@victorbeauvois Жыл бұрын

Always very interesting and full of history and facts

@theguyof360 7 ай бұрын

Its disgusting what they did to Germany.

@herbivorethecarnivore8447 6 ай бұрын

It's disgusting what Germany did.

@theguyof360 6 ай бұрын

@@herbivorethecarnivore8447 lol, no it isn't

@KoopstaKlicca 5 ай бұрын

@@theguyof360you don't think systematic genocide is disgusting?

@theguyof360 4 ай бұрын

@@KoopstaKlicca That's what's happening to Germany right now...

@KoopstaKlicca 4 ай бұрын

@@theguyof360 aren't we talking about WW2?

@transitmallproductions1063 4 ай бұрын

I came onto KZfaq for a specific reason, and I had to stop what I was doing to watch this

@Reaper08 Жыл бұрын

This channel and TIK History are the only history channels I need.

@ianmasters8344 Жыл бұрын

I was given a stamp album many years ago by a family friend. It contains amongst others 19 Hitler stamps of varying values from low to high. There were also some from the pre- Hitler era of hyperinflation with face values of 1,5,20 and 100 overprints although I am not sure what the currency unit was.

@obikenobi3157 Жыл бұрын

Could be "mark" too. There are even overprints with millions

@XalphYT Жыл бұрын

Is the denomination shown? *RM* would be for Reichsmark and *Pf* would be for Pfennig.