Croatian Souvenir Stamps - Croatian Legions

Authors

Object ID

2014.1.280

Object Name

Stamp, Postage

Date

1943

Files

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Description

Four stamps on serated off-white paper with blue text and decorations. Seal of Croatia above stamps and text in orange. Blue stamp with sailor, green stamp with airman, red stamp with soldier in action, grey stamp with soldier not in action. Each has different value.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Croatia (Croatian: Nezavisna Drzava Hrvatska, NDH) was a puppet state of Nazi Germany. The NDH was founded on 10 April 1941, after the invasion of Yugoslavia by the Axis powers. It was controlled by the governing fascist Ustasha movement and Ante Pavelic, which in turn were primarily under German influence. Its racial enemies were Jews, Serbs and Roma people, against whom large-scale genocide campaigns were conducted in places such as the Jasenovac and Stara Gradiska concentration camps.

Dimensions

3 1/2 x 4"

Keywords

Croatian Legions, Croatia, Stalingrad, Battle

Subcollection

Philatelic

Recommended Citation

"Croatian Souvenir Stamps - Croatian Legions" (1943). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2014.1.280.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/539