Showing posts with label Czechoslovakia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Czechoslovakia. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Germany - WWII 1938 Hitler Germany Map of the Sudetenland

Wir Danken Unserm Fuhrer
(We thank our leader)

The pre-paid stamp on the back reads: Deutsches Reich, 4 December 1938

unused propaganda postcard for Hitler's Germany

below is a view of the back of the postcard

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I read on the internet that Konrad Henlein is next to Hitler and this is for the German Anschluss and annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938.

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The Sudetenland is the German name to refer to those northern, southwest, and western areas of Czechoslovakia which were inhabited mostly by German speakers, specifically the border districts of Bohemia, Moravia, and those parts of Silesia located within Czechoslovakia.

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Konrad Ernst Eduard Henlein (6 May 1898 – 10 May 1945) was a leading Sudeten German politician in Czechoslovakia. Upon the German occupation he joined the Nazi Party and was appointed Reichsstatthalter (Imperial Lieutenant or Imperial Governor) of the Sudetenland in 1939.

Sunday, March 25, 2012

Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic)


Praha (Prague now in the Czech Republic)
Staromestske namesti a okoli (views around Old Town Square)
1979

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Old Town Square is a historic square in the Old Town quarter of Prague in the Czech Republic .

It features various architectural styles including the gothic Týn Church (bottom row left hand side) and baroque St. Nicholas Church (top row in the center). Among many churches, tourists may find the Astronomical Clock on this square (top row, right and left pictures).

The square's center is home to a statue of religious reformer Jan Hus, who for his beliefs was burned at the stake in Constance. The statue known as the Jan Hus Memorial was erected on July 6, 1915 to mark the 500th anniversary of his death. (bottom left picture in this postcard)