Waffen-SS Feldpost Postcard from Commander of the Order Police Headquarters, Ukraine

Authors

Object ID

2014.1.301

Object Name

Postcard

Date

5-12-1941

Files

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Description

Front: Tan paper with pencil handwriting. Small pencil message on lefthand margin. Back: Left side continues pencil message. Black stamp in lower lefthand corner. Right side has address over printed green ink. Black stamp over right corner.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: The Order Police served under the SS and were often accompanying the Einsatzgruppen after the Wehrmacht invaded Poland in 1939, participating in mass murder of Jews and partisans in German-occupied territory of Ukraine and Soviet Union.

Dimensions

5 3/4 x 4 1/3"

Keywords

Feldpost, Befehlshaber, Ordnungspolizei, Ukraine

Subcollection

Bullets

Recommended Citation

"Waffen-SS Feldpost Postcard from Commander of the Order Police Headquarters, Ukraine" (1941). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2014.1.301.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/559