Germany & Colonies Philatelic Society
The year 2014 marked the 50th anniversary of the first year of operation of the Germany & Colonies Philatelic Society following the amalgamation of the Germany & Colonies Stamp Club (established 1947) and the Stockton German Study Group (1960).

The G&CPS celebrated its inaugural year in 1964 with the first Germania Posta philatelic exhibition held in Stockton.

Title: 1945 Postal History
Posted By: Benjamin R. Beede (brbeede@rci.rutgers.edu)
Posted On: 05/02/2009 at 02:31:36
Message: Yes, indeed, the Reichspost did its best to maintain service under highly adverse circumstances. For information about the Reichspost in the last year of World War II and the fate of mail in German postal channels at the end of World War II, I can immodestly recommend an English-language source, my From the Reichspost to Allied Occupation, published several years by Philabooks in Frankfurt/Main. It is out of print, but some of the philatelic libraries may have a copy. The most important facet of the book is the many Allied postal and censorship documents that are reproduced. Moreover, for the Reichspost story I checked a number of town and regional histories in addition to using postal regulations. The Saxony obliterations was one of my favor areas years ago, but I have done little with the field for a long time. The two-volume German-language work is a really fine study, but I would not ignore or discard the earlier one volume treatment that dealt with the Chemnitz only. Some of the illustrations in that book are not reproduced in the later two-volume treatment. You suggested that "covers . . . are not easy to find." There are a good many covers offered in German auctions, which frequently include whole sections of "Ueberroller" (a curious term) and Saxony overprints or obliterations. Benjamin R. Beede
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1945 Postal History Tony Burgess 14/08/2008 04:57:24
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