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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 |
