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This is a Free State Danzig stamped postal card with a German Invasion Day postmark (addressee is unknown, reverse is blank with no message)
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POSTAGE STAMP: Danzig - Scott# C42 / 10 pfennig / Air Mail
Topic - "Freie Stadt Danzig - Airplane - Scarlet Red / Issued 1938-39
POSTMARK: There are two postmarks dated 1 Sept. 1939 / DANZIG
"Der Fuhrer Hat Uns Befreit" - (The Leader Has Freed Us)
One is cancelling the stamp, the other is seperate - Purple ink
CARD PRINTED BY: W.F. Burau, Danzig-Langfuhr - Nr. 3004 - 3F9X
** The German invasion of Poland began on 1 September 1939, one week after the signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. On 8 October, after an initial period of military administration, Germany directly annexed western Poland and the former Free City of Danzig. ** Source - wikipedia
