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Dear Mr Beede (or will Ben[jamin] do?),
Thanks for the words of encouragement.
I don’t think it would be very difficult for you to contribute something, given that you have a computer and know how to send e-mails. If you have a scanner you can save a scan-image to your hard disk and then attach it to an e-mail, taking care to keep it (or reduce it) to an acceptable size. If you don’t have a scanner but know someone local who does then they could scan it and send it to you as an e-mail attachment, from which you would copy it to your hard-disk and proceed as above.
Yes, covers to and from KZ guards aren’t that common [to probably less so than from], I guess because not everyone wanted after 1945 to advertise the fact that they or their relative had been such a person by selling on give-away evidence.
I don’t agree that my illustrated cover should have a unit cachet. It was sent from the sender’s home address in Hungary presumably while he was on furlough, not from the Fp address in Estland he wrote on the flap, so there was no-one to apply such a cachet. However it should, I think, have borne the mention ‘SS Feldpost’. After 27.5.42 such mail was allowed post-free to/from Hungary.
Regards, Philip
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