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Title

Feldpost Postcard from SS Organization Managing Resettlement of Ethnic Germans

Authors

Object ID

2012.1.283

Object Name

Postcard, Picture

Date

8-17-1940

Files

Description

Front: Black and white photograph of a busy street with a trolly and doubledecker bus.Back: Message handwritten in pencil and addressed to Marie Jenner.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Feldpost card with hand stamp from Volkdeutsche Mittelstelle Ausseldung Galizien, the Ethnic Germans' Welfare Office in Galicia, Poland. This postcard includes a hand stamp from this SS Organization responsible for the resettlement of Volkdeutsch (ethnic Germans) in occupied territories and also involved in the confiscation of Jewish properties.

Dimensions

3 1/2 x 5 1/4"

Keywords

Bus, Trolley, Berlin, Reich Seal, Galicia, Poland, Volkdeutsch, Confiscation, Property confiscation, Marie Jenner

Subcollection

1939-1941: Concentration:Ghettos, Einsatzgruppen (Mobile Killing Squads); WWII in Europe

Recommended Citation

"Feldpost Postcard from SS Organization Managing Resettlement of Ethnic Germans" (1940). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2012.1.283.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/964