58th AUCTION - Day 4

Schweiz - Besonderheiten: Huge group with the balance of correspondence of a Swi

Schweiz - Besonderheiten

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Huge group with the balance of correspondence of a Swiss volunteer in the Wehrmacht. These are all covers and/or letters going home to Switzerland (Most/all to Zurich) There are 16 covers , and 15 of these have contents. In addition there is a written but uncancelled (presumably inserted) postcard, and there are 15 additional letters; in total, a huge amount of written documentation from a member of Marine-Artillerie-Abteilung 240. This artillery unit was stationed on the English Channel by Wimereux. It was destroyed by the Allies during the Normandy invasion in September of 1944. Some of the letters give the location as 'Kanalkueste' (Channel Coast) and one of the locations has been excised by a censor. The covers are all censored, as volunteer feldpost should be -- many multiple times, as are many of the contents. The Swiss, being nominally neutral, were not allowed to join the German army. However, approximately 1000 of them did so, according to the Michel feldpost handbook. Such feldpost is such very scarce.

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Erhaltung: Brief
For this lot an additional 7% for Import Expenses (Taxes) will be charged.