The listing, 4 Mint = Hitler Deutsches Reich WW2 Nazi Germany Stamps 1941-1945 (**Bidder Bonus**) has ended.
**( If bids go over 2,000 i will send the second highest bidder 2 mint hitler stamps. so technically there will be 2 winners. it will be up to that person to contact me with their shipping info within 48 hours of auction close, to claim their gift stamps. winner will also receive a bonus )***
4 hitler Stamps That didn't get blown up during World War II
These are Real Hitler Deutsches Reich Nazi Stamps.
they have an interesting History and played a role In how world war II was fought and won. these are the type of Stamps that the OSS(CIA) forged in operation cornflake.
"These stamps were key part of a high level clandestine plan to undermine the morale of the average German citizen. The Allies felt that if many German people started receiving Anti-Nazi propaganda in their morning mail delivered punctually at breakfast time by the mailman, they would feel that their "German Empire" was falling apart from within."
How were these propaganda forgeries used?
The OSS decided that the best way to smuggle the mail into the regular German postal system was to bomb mail trains. In addition to bombs to possibly destroying the trains, they dropped sacks of mail containing Anti-Nazi propaganda. During the confusion of cleaning up the wreck, the false mail sacks were mixed with the damaged German mail. The OSS re-created all aspects of the German Postal system from real business return addresses to many thousands of names and addresses pulled from the telephone directories. They even replicated the mail bags, postal markings and every other detail of the postal system. Every letter was franked with a 12pf stamp or two 6pf stamps. On opening the letter, they would find it filled with anti-Nazi propaganda including the 12pf "Futsches Reich" stamp.
***These are not the forgeries these are real hitler era german stamps. i just wanted to give you some interesting backround info on these.***
hgitner.com/oss-forgeries.html
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