Hitler's Image Used in Postwar Germany

Though almost every element of Nazi Germany was banned after the surrender, Hitler's image continued to be used after May 1945, and continued in service under Allied approval into 1946. The reason was because of extreme need and practicality.
Thanks to subscriber Ron Huppert for suggesting this fascinating topic.
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[@wetwillyis_1881]

My Great-Grandmother had a huge stamp collection, and when we found it, we were amazed to find so many Hitler stamps.

[@valdomero738]

I'd buy some.

[@valdomero738]

They are probably worth little fortune seach.

[@y_ffordd]

@@valdomero738you can still buy them at German flew markets for cheap

[@treystephens6166]

@@valdomero738 I want a flag.

[@chrisbelvedere6653]

Sounds like your grandmother was a very smart lady.

[@jonathanljohnson]

I went through a stamp collecting phase as a boy and thought it very odd that there were so many stamps available with the picture of Hitler on them; now I understand why!

[@shellman5844]

Yes. Collecting stamps as a kid I had quite a few Hitler stamps. The stamp market was flooded with them and they were quite cheap to buy.

[@solushyperborea]

because he was the greatest man to ever live maybe XDD

[@Chevdriver]

@@shellman5844 you can still get nos ones fairly cheap

[@-danR]

Mark Felton has just doubled the value of undefaced Shickelgrüber stamps.

[@francisdec1615]

I still have some stamps with Hitler on them.

[@InCountry6970]

In 1984 I visited a friend living in Munich and he had an old stamp collection. I asked if they were still valid and he said no. I decided to test this and mailed a post card to a buddy of mine in CA and used the correct denomination of a red colored stamp with a picture of Hitler and Mussolini in profile on the stamp. My friend received the post card and the stamp had the correct post mark stamp approval. My German friend said that the post card must have passed through the hands of an old German postal worked and he approved it and sent it on. I still have it today. Pretty remarkable

[@howardsimpson489]

Perhaps it was a precursor AI cancelling machine and not very bright.

[@MyRegardsToTheDodo]

@@howardsimpson489 In 1984 those were done manually, I guess the post official in the German office didn't care or it slipped by and once it was in the system it got transported to it's destination, and once it left Germany nobody actually knew how a German stamp looked. Especially in the 1980s they were a mess anyways, you had atleast three different German stamps, those issued in West Germany, those issued in East Germany and those issued in West Berlin (which was a special district with it's own stamps, due to it being basically an enclave under allied/West German control).

[@the_Googie]

Thats an interesting story. Im suprised they didn't receive a letter from any officials, the police, etc. Since a deliberate use of a Hitler stamp might trigger an investigation from the Verfassungsschutz (constitutional watch)

[@robs5688]

Funny, but yeah, it was obviously either a result of a mistake, or some postal worker's idea of a joke. Also, it was just a postcard. Try it with a first class letter and it probably won't go through.

[@AudieHolland]

I remember when I was a child, the bi-weekly magazine we received via school, Taptoe, featured an article where they had sent various mail with fantasy stamps that they created themselves. One was a postcard/ansichtkaart with writing on both sides (no image) and drawn stamps on both sides, although the delivery addresses varied on each side. All mail was sent via the Dutch postage system and everything arrived at its destination. The aforementioned postcard was received by the person on the first address. Although it was already stamped (on one side), that person mailed it again and the postcard was delivered to the address on the other side of the card. The Dutch mail did not stamp it a second time though. The article started with a disclaimer: don't try this yourself.

[@maxjoechl5663]

4:55 The 'poem' on the stamp reads: _"Blood and tears his seeds - his works were but misdeeds"_ (I tried to stay as literal as possible while preserving the rhyme)

[@geigertec5921]

There is an especially rare "Scratch N' Sniff" Hitler stamp produced exclusively in Bavaria for the year 1938. You scratch it and it evokes a smell of edelweiss. A holographic Hitler stamp from 1940 is a little more common, when viewed from different sides the image of Hitler sticks its tounge out. These stamps were made in part due to the Hitler-Youth recruitment efforts, in addition to the Nazi-Party trading card game, where children would recieve various Nazi-party official's images on trading cards that also listed their rank and past achievements. The rarest trading card was Scheubner-Richter, of which only one was produced and said to have been in the posession of Hitler.

[@johncox2865]

Would have thought it smelled BROWN.

[@RemnantCult]

I almost believed you for a second!

[@il_principe]

Hahaha good one

[@anglishbookcraft1516]

They also came out with a Dr Goebbels hungry hungry hippo game. Where Goebbels eats cyanide pills

[@geigertec5921]

Also a variant of the board game Clue where you have to determine who burned down the reichstag. It's heavily implied throughout the game that it was the Jewish Communist in the parlor with the candle stick.

[@jangelbrich7056]

Some small details: Hitler did not appear on stamps before 1937, 4 years after his taking power. And even after that, his image was rather rare on a few non-definitive stamps, e.g. to celebrate his birthday. Only in August 1941, the definitive series shown here came out, when the war was already waging since 2 years.

[@kbanghart]

I'm sure no stamps were considered until Hitler had his official "headshots" or Nazi glamour shots or whatever they called their official photographs LOL. Hitler with all the different poses and outfits.

[@stingray2134]

My Dad was a big stamp collector. He was drafted very late in the war and by the time he finished training the war had ended. He was assigned to brining German POWs back to Germany from the US. When he was over there he bought many Hitler stamps in uncut sheet form. I remember him showing me two books of just German WWII era stamps that he had brought back with him. When he passed in 2001, my Stepmom so,d his entire collection. I just wanted those two books.

[@tobilinooo]

He "bought"...LoL...you mean he stole them. American soldiers entered private homes and stole photo albums, and other things. Jewelry and other things were also looted. This stolen property, like your grandfather's, can often be found at auctions today.

[@paulorchard7960]

Thats a shame!😢

[@aka99]

It is, but typically human behavior of his stepmom, just wanted to make money. No sense for history. Hopefully the stamps are in a place worshipping them.

[@stingray2134]

@@aka99 She, I believe was probably overwhelmed by the amount of his stamp collection. She said she asked if anyone wanted his stamps. I just don’t remember that??

[@stsk7]

@@aka99 worshipping?

[@EVILDR235]

My good friend in California has a house that was orginally built for housing WW2 Navel personel and their familes. After WW2 the houses were sold for $1.00 U.S. , but had to be moved from their present location. The man who owned the house before my friend and had it moved about four miles to where it is now. When my friend bought the house in the late 1970's , he went about remodeling it. In one of the walls he found a WW2 era letter that was sent home by a G.I. to his family and it had a couple of dozen Hitler / Nazi stamps in it.

[@kbanghart]

Where was this? I'm in CA.

[@EVILDR235]

@@kbanghart The house now is in American Canyon half way between Napa and Vallejo. The house in question came from Shipyard Acres. I remember Shipyard Acres in the 1960's. At that time all that was left was concrete pads where houses use to be and streets. It was a favorite place for people to race go karts.

[@Andy-ScotsIrish-TheGAEL.]

That's cool man. Thanks for sharing 👍 I discovered a collection in the 🇬🇧 Working at a wasteyard/recycling yard. I guess this particular waste was from a old people home or someone's home who passed on, Huge stamps collection book of many nations, but the one that stood out was obviously Germany and the Hitler stamps. I couldn't see it be destroyed and gone forever, being into history and all I swooped that to one side, took it home, it sat in my cupboard in it's original filthy state, from being in a pile on the floor until I waa on the conveyor belt and seen it.

[@shutup2751]

it's eerie and strange how something as simple as a stamp used one day to send a simple card or letter to someone then represents a bygone era the next day

[@zackkilgore528]

A little ominous isn’t it? Heck imagine how it’s completely plausible how something ubiquitous today would become a collector’s item tomorrow

[@DaveSCameron]

Very much so yes, last September when Queen Elizabeth II died it was a real What Now moment that I never saw coming. Best wishes 🙏 🇬🇧

[@zackkilgore528]

@@DaveSCameron start collecting her coins

[@Vingul]

@@DaveSCameron aye, none of us thought the queen would ever die.

[@DaveSCameron]

@@Vingul Strange as that sounds correct. 👍

[@royboy9361]

Always making time for a Mark Felton video, it’s time well spent. IMO.

[@janefrost1856]

I agree, you know what you're going to get, and most of them are not too long, so I can watch them during my break

[@samlandau372]

I concur fully!

[@MikeHunt-zh6lt]

You can remove the imo and replace it with objectively

[@ryecreeks]

Roy Boy: Ditto, sir! 👍👍

[@crosstiewalker803]

I'll bet herr drumpf would've tried to get his orange face on US Postage stamps, and he would've expected a cut from every stamp sold.

[@martingrzanna2005]

The stamp with "Blut und Tränen seine Saat, sein Wirken war nur Missetat" means "blood and tears were his seed, his doing was nothing but misdeed"

[@faithlesshound5621]

That rhymes! Does it have a literary origin?

[@martingrzanna2005]

@@faithlesshound5621 sorry dont know

[@Canleaf08]

It is up to this generation, not to repeat the same error again, to bring people like H to power.

[@Nakai_the_Wanderer]

One of the pictures in the video shows a "Fenseh-Sprechstelle" (TV-intercom), which is a very interesting piece of German history. It was the first German network for video telephony, allowing such communication between several post offices in some big cities in Germany. Due to the war, this network was not expanded as much as it was planned, but it is still interesting to imagine how far the technology had come before the war wiped out many of these civilian technological advances.

[@grumblesa10]

They were on the brink of bringing TV to the population when the war began.

[@RVail623]

German for "television set" is: "Fernsehgerät", which literally translates in English as: "far see device".

[@faithlesshound5621]

@@RVail623 It's striking how German scientists and engineers did NOT have the rest of the West's penchant for making up new words from Latin and Greek roots. There was a minor movement in England to replicate what the Germans had done, but it had little support. That's "Anglish." E.G. "farspeech" instead of "telephone," and "folkwain" instead of "omnibus." The German equivalent would be "Volkswagen."

[@krollpeter]

Exactly! It is striking to see more and more of how far they had become already before WW2. Hitler wanted to be the leader of the leading race - what an idiot. He could have been the leader of the no. 1 technological advanced country, so it seems.

[@kbanghart]

​@@faithlesshound5621 great point, I'm curious about that.

[@davidbarr9343]

As a young lad in the sixties I had several of these stamps in my collection. They were widely available from stamp vendors in the UK. Excellent video as usual from Dr Felton.

[@dajjukunrama5695]

Varför skriver du på globalistisk English? Varför?

[@zippolighter4903]

@@dajjukunrama5695wut

[@davidbarr9343]

@@dajjukunrama5695 I am Scottish/ British, therefore I write in English. Stupid question! Even from a turnip.😂

[@morriskaller3549]

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[@TheSmsawyer]

I remember coming across stamps like these and Il Duche stamps in gift shops in places like Lichtenstein and San Marino. They couldn't have been original prints. You ask them why they are selling reprints of fascist stamps and their general answer is something along the lines of, "They sell."

[@wildbikerbill6530]

"A fool and his money are soon parted"

[@FormallyknownasE100]

So I know my Granny’s stepfather become the British sector postmaster immediately after the war in Berlin from 45 to 46/47 we believe. My Grandfather was an avid stamp collector and after his death around 15 years ago we discovered mint condition sheets in several large boxes (think a few boxes of printer paper) of both over stamped and non-over stamped Hitler faced stamps. When these were sold at auction they apparently crashed the market somewhat 😂

[@philipthomey7884]

The price dropped because the market was flooded. No longer a rarity but still collectable . I had a wonderful collection too and it was stolen.

[@suzyqualcast6269]

@@philipthomey7884 I had Hitler red stamps. and reichmarks/pfennigs, ¿?, brass and alys. Most vanished after I was divorced and lost hand to all.

[@MyRegardsToTheDodo]

Around 15 years ago the market pretty much crashed because stamp collecting is basically dying as a hobby. There are no new stamp collectors comming along and the old collectors are dying out, eventually the hobby will be a thing of the past.

[@mattbarbarich3295]

The most common overprints which I've seen and have in my collections is with the verticle black bars, especially used in Austria. Never seen any of those with the black circles , thanks for showing those Dr Felton. It's sad that so many people give up collecting stamps when they reach their late teens, it's a treasure trove of history and social information.

[@TerribleShmeltingAccident]

I haven’t been this early since I was married

[@yellowjackboots2624]

Get up Early, go down a Longstreet, over two Hills, in the Lee of a Stonewall.

[@carltonleboss]

Bruhhh

[@bele2.041]

I think you mean premature.

[@1949bug]

Haha 😂 bloody brilliant 👌

[@panathatube]

You came soon

[@evilchaosboy]

That is how I was first introduced to Hitler. As a young lad I saw my Mom's stamp collection and, of course, wanted my own stamp collection. She had an old empty collecting book and took me to the book store and the stamp collecting section. (I don't know if they still have these, but at the time you could buy an envelope of used stamps torn off the corners mail.) They were perfect for a beginner because you received a ton and they were from like _EVERYWHERE_ . So, as I was sticking stamps into my book, one day, my Pops happened by and was complimenting me on my collection. I had just stuck in a new one when he told me that man on that stamp was a BAD MAN...VERY BAD. I'm sure he told me his name, but that was all. It was enough though to, many years later, to begin a "thirst for knowledge" that has never stopped since about _"THE BAD MAN"_ . Thanks for a swell show, sir.

[@Drew-bc7zj]

LOL You remind me of the Pakistani on Seinfeld who was angry at Jerry. "BAD MAN. VERY BAD." (wags finger)

[@MikehMike01]

Propaganda is very effective

[@emilianozamora399]

@@MikehMike01says you. Worships a man who ended his own life 80 years ago

[@edsherman2092]

Very well done Mark! I am an avid stamp collector and found this video quite informative. Great job, hope you do more documentaries like this one that include postage stamps.

[@Lanwarder]

Honestly, even before you mentioned it my thought was "They should have made sure to deface the stamps". Another great Mark Felton video. as always. Thanks for the content.

[@wayneantoniazzi2706]

Now THAT was a bit of a shocker! I wasn't surprised at the the video concerning German Army engineer, signals, and MP units being kept intact for a time after the war but I never thought about postage stamps! Thanks Doctor Felton, thanks to you I learn something new darn near every day!

[@PSMCR69]

Next video probably will be on Hitler's antique fingerprint

[@wayneantoniazzi2706]

@@PSMCR69 I heard his mustasche is in a military museum in Moscow.

[@MyRegardsToTheDodo]

@@wayneantoniazzi2706 His skull or atleast parts of it actually is in Moscow (that was confirmed).

[@MyRegardsToTheDodo]

Well, Nazi German banknotes and coins were still valid until the currency reform of 1948. There were coins with lower denominations minted without the Nazi symbols (the old coins were still valid, though), but as far as I know there were no new bank notes until the D-Mark was released in 1948, so the old notes were still used for around three years. You couldn't really buy anything with them, but they were still official currency. And they didn't have Hitler's image on them, but quite a lot of Nazi symbols (for example, there was a 5 Reichsmark note glorifying the Hitlerjugend). Oh, and the Soviets actually kept three concentration camps up and running until 1950, partially with the same inmates the Nazis had placed there. There was one inmate who died under the Soviets after being put into the camp by the Nazis. That fact was left out by the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) when they turned these camps into museums.

[@DonnaChamberson]

Jesus teaches us something new every day! In this case, he taught us about Hitler.

[@Weeboslav]

I used to have a post stamp with hitler and mussollini on it(my father got it from his German friend and it was used if I remember correctly). It was one of thousand post stamps my father had collected from many countries. Unfortunately,my brother sold them all to get drug money. On other hand,I still have a coin from 1940 with mussolini's face on it that I found on the street some 20 years ago

[@fluttzkrieg4392]

Drugs are a poison that damages not only the user, but every person they know as well.

[@ivanmihaelmatkovic2464]

I know the stamp you speak of, it was issued in 1941, I believe. It's red and used the offset technique. It had the Reichsadler and the Fascio on it with the images of Hitler and Mussolini and the saying "Zwei Völker - ein Kampf" (Two peoples, one struggle). I believe a mint not hinged stamp is 8€ catalogue value.

[@censured-again]

​@ivanmihaelmatkovic2464 I have two of these used. One is still on the addressed envelope.

[@redgydewulf3087]

Mussolini's face was never on official italian coins. Although the reverse of the 20 centesimi 1940 may bear some resemblance. But as that same face of the 20 centesimi was reutilized on the 5 Lire after the war, that must definitively not have been Mussilini's.

[@MyRegardsToTheDodo]

@@censured-again The envelope is probably worth more than the stamp. There are people who collect mail from that time.

[@CoronadoBruin]

I'm sure others have posted earlier the translation of the 6 Dm stamp but here it is: Blood and tears his seed (moment), his work (action) was but iniquity (misdeed) (Blut und tränen seine Saat, sein Wirken war nur Missetat).

[@lydiaramento-tipon4772]

Your postings are always a welcome addition to the cache of knowledge !!,

[@sidewinder666666]

A very good example of "post-war pragmatism". Great job researching the variants which occupied countries had to use as well.

[@NasimNowshad]

It is 8:30 am in the morning on a weekend holiday in Dhaka Bangladesh. I have just watched this video of yours, Mark and feel delighted. I have been collecting stamps now for more than 44 years. This particular video of yours have made me extraordinarily happy and it's a nice start to the weekend holiday 💗🙏🏾

[@metallicasnake]

Really enjoy every one of your videos, Dr. Felton. Thank you for making history so easy to enjoy and learn from.

[@TheWeatherbuff]

Thank you, Mark! Your vids are excellent and I always look forward to them. Plus, your theme music gets stuck in my head... and I'm in media, which means it's effective! Cheers, Sir! 😊

[@shugo541]

I wonder if Hitler referred to them as “mein stampfs”

[@Potato_1108]

Lol

[@muminahzahid541]

​@@Potato_1108😂😂😂😂

[@BDESal]

Hahahaha

[@mr.wallace1074]

I have several of these stamps with "Ukraine" superimposed on them. Your video had me dig up my old collection from years ago. Another "set of seven" (unmarked) containing different denominations in unused condition cost 25 US cents back in the early 1970's. This collection survived a house fire twenty years ago, although the album did suffer from minor water damage.

[@nematolvajkergetok5104]

There were two more examples of the Third Reich formally surviving itself. One was in Austria, the other in Hungary, and the latter is pretty hilarious. In Austria, employment record booklets (Arbeitsbuch) issued in the Nazi era remained in use until their users retired or lost them for some reason. These booklets were retained by employers, and only handed back to the employees if they left their position. Adorned by a swastika and a Nazi eagle, they were still pretty common in the 1960s. In Hungary, a small city square, today called "Kodály körönd", used to be "Hitler square" for a short period of time in 1944-1945. Of course, it was promptly given back its old name, "Körönd" after the war, and some decades later it was renamed again in honor of the great musical composer, Zoltán Kodály. However, it was still marked as "Hitler tér" on the city utility map for many decades. A lady at the Budapest Water Works had the job of updating the map every year, and marking changes in the network. This, in practice, meant copying and redrawing the entire map over and over again. Since there were never any changes here, she just copied everything, including the name. Nobody even noticed it until she retired in the early 1990s. It's quite remarkable that even during the 1950s, it never crossed her mind that she may end up in a reeducation camp for this...

[@Benjey657]

I think drivers licenses from the Wehrmacht could be used in Germany until very recently I think. Heard some baffled police officers seeing some 90 year olds driving with that.

[@AA-ke5cu]

Nazi's die hard; millions of their spawn survive scattered all over the globe.

[@hippiesaboteur2556]

I can just imagine the initial reaction and look on the polizei's face when first realizing what it was they were looking at, and I'm sure said officer had to be in just utter dismay & disbelief, and furthermore probably decided to just give the old timer a warning & let him go. I mean 90+/- years old or not, I don't think I'd wanna screw with some geriatric German vet with the Reich-issued credentials to prove it

[@metapolitikgedanken612]

On the other hand. Why be uptight about it?

[@kbanghart]

Very cool story about the employee in Hungary, but I'm curious, do we know why she always kept the same name? Maybe she was advised to by someone else?

[@censured-again]

Denazification was supposed to be all-encompassing. I found an eagle on a building in Berchtesgaden in 2015. I was amazed it was still there considering the area and being so close to where the Berghof's remains are. The eagle had a hakenkreuz inside the wreath beneath the eagle.

[@rickglorie]

That region still has fond memories I guess.

[@AtheistOrphan]

Featured at 1:48. Mark has done a video about that very subject, and there are NONE with the original symbol still intact.

[@censured-again]

​@AtheistOrphan That may be true. There is nothing to mark or indicate the origin of the former Little Reich Chancellery in Bischofwiesen.

[@scottkrafft6830]

@@AtheistOrphan That's not true. Digital Cosmonaut found some abandoned buildings with them. They were in the Soviet zone.

[@joshrabatin]

Thank You Dr. Felton! every time I see Your documentaries pop up it's like seeing the next episode of one of My favorite series 😎

[@jamesbednar8625]

Good video!!! As a kid growing up during the 1960s-1970s I was an avid stamp collector. Can remember going to the local hobby shop and buying a bag of used international stamps every now and then. You were almost certainly going to get at least 4 of these stamps in each bag, regardless of denomination. My collection, which I still have, was almost complete. Also, after being stationed in West Germany while in US Army during the 1980s, I would visit German stamp shops and these stamps in mint condition as well - have at least 1 complete set. Can also remember the Germans being a bit "reluctant" to sell WWII era stamps to a scrawny/snot-nosed American for whatever reason they had, but purchase some I did. THANKS!! for the memories.

[@christiancolson]

Again another well-researched historical talk by Mark. Keep up the good work. 😊

[@CS-rh2ce]

Great video Mark! Love your channel so much, you always have informative videos!

[@Pixxelshim]

Your work is so appreciated!!

[@r2gelfand]

Wow, der Fuhrer still had a role to play in post war Germany. I never knew. In fact, I have many of those stamps and now I can pretty much tell when they were used, during the war or after the war. Very informative and interesting video.

[@robescalante6352]

Wow - I never thought of this - excellent Dr. Felton!

[@patrikpass2962]

3:40 weird. I thought it was the allies who reduced Berlin to rubble.

[@richardwainwright507]

Really defending Hitler huh

[@patrikpass2962]

@@richardwainwright507 Nope. Just stating facts. The documentaries reasoning would mean that its the US fault that someone else did 9/11. Wait...

[@richardwainwright507]

@@patrikpass2962 You realize Hitler started the war by annexing Poland right? Berlin would be in one peace if he didnt attack an ally of Britain. Your analogy doesn’t work.

[@chuckymcchuckface8768]

Once this notification popped up on my phone, I couldn't get the kids to sleep quick enough to get watching it! Thanks Dr Felton.

[@sealove79able]

A great very interesting video and topic Mr.Felton as always. Now there is no need to mention the war we are all friends now... . Have a good one. Can you make a video about the post WWII Czechoslovakia?

[@2uksteve]

Another very useful addition to your collection of valuable insights. Just one correction; "tränen" translates to "tears" and not "trauma".

[@maizie9454]

I so appreciate your varied and detailed subject matter. thank you. history is much more than dates and names.

[@DJ_Pigg]

So that's why my dad (1936-1999) had a few sheet of these stamps in his collection! Interesting video, I hadn't thought about them having to be used post-war

[@nazo3499]

Greetings, Mark Felton. Huge fan of the channel and of your great literacy and research about the matters of discussion, been binging it for a couple of days already. Loved recently the Denmark saved by the Canadians one, which could have altered events greatly in the second half of the century and, as a segue to that, I wonder if you could make a video about how Bonn came to be the capital of the West Germany government. I would have expected it to be either Hamburg, Münich or some other city in the Rhein. Although the first one could be explained due to it being mostly destroyed because of the 1943 Allied air bombings and the second held too much significance to the old nazi regime and would have brought much criticism internationally. If not, appreciate any comments to bring light on the matter. Keep up the great work!

[@fluffysquishball]

Top tier video as usual Mark; what would we do without you?

[@daystatesniper01]

Another very interesting nugget of history Mark ,thank you .

[@TheMarslMcFly]

This is something I actually never thought about, and as a German I learned **a ton** about WW2 and the time after in school. I'm honestly a bit surprised the Allies didn't just destroy the stamps and instead use their own stamps from the UK/US/France and Russia. You'd think it shouldn't be to hard to bring them to Germany, even with so much destroyed.

[@fjdkfdfjdf33]

Your best delivery yet!

[@doberski6855]

Fascinating as usual Dr. Felton. Am surprised to learn that the Allied planners didn't have something preplanned for the issue. Having the British, Canadian or U.S. postal services prepare and print batches of generic stamps that could be used. Or even put the French or postal services of other liberated European nations to the task.

[@Ironman1o1]

In fairness to the allies, this sort of nation rebuilding was the first of its kind. I bet simply no one thought of it when "How do we beat hitler" and not "What to do with Germany" was top on the mind.

[@TheColonialGamer131]

His a Dr?

[@fintonmainz7845]

Not their job. The Germans claimed that the Nazis were a dictatorship with little support. It was up to the Germans to prove themselves. They failed.

[@edwardscott3262]

​@@Ironman1o1 It was really minor oversight. They are just stamps after all. The allies did make big plans for rebuilding some completely unneeded. They commissioned armored tractors out of fear farmers wouldn't want to harvest their crops and such. It turned out they had the opposite problem and farmers didn't necessarily want to wait for a war to pass to do their job. Lamborghini started out making farm equipment like tractors out of spare military parts.

[@genericpersonx333]

Mind, the Allies had limits to their resources and diverting thousands of tons of paper to start replacing Germans stamps while there was a war ongoing with the Empire of Japan was not desirable. Especially when one considers that it looked like defeating Japan would require the bloody reduction of the Japanese home islands one village at a time. The Allies were keen to exploit the fact that Germany was still a relatively wealthy nation despite the damage. Germans had paper, machines, and more. All the Allies really needed to do was organize the Germans to start using German resources for German needs again. This would let the Allies focus their shipping on those resources that Germans couldn't supply for themselves adequately, like food and medicine. Thus, most of the "aid" shipped to Germany after the surrender was in the form of food and agricultural equipment to get German farms running again so Germans didn't starve and could focus on rebuilding themselves under Allied supervision.

[@jonamshapouri1518]

I’m all about that bass

[@ayushranjan3861]

where is that from

[@DonaldJTrump47]

No treble

[@kingofsnakes1000]

This channel and Dr. Felton taught me that no matter how much we may think we may know about a subject, we should never stop studying. Also cannot wait for the day Dr. Felton makes a video on the batons of the Third Reich's Field Marshals and Grand Admirals.

[@leonardcroft1467]

Thank You Dr. Felton Always Enjoy Your Videos

[@MotownWes]

A strange bit of history I had never heard of before. Thanks for the enlightenment Mark.

[@rhoetusochten4211]

I used to have some of those. Bought them in a class auction from my social studies teacher. I might have been the only person willing to make an offer. To me, the historical value was worth the odd looks I received.

[@Alaskancrabpuffs21]

As a stamp collector I've amassed quite of few of these stamps. They are quite common

[@Hollows1997]

Another question answered that I hadn’t even considered before. As always, thank you Dr Felton!

[@ryanreedgibson]

I always get excited when I see a Mark video in my feed.

[@ajsilva1973]

I've learned so much from watching your videos. Thank you!

[@vp5633]

No, thank you for watching! My pleasure 😊

[@fuferito]

05:18 The Czekoslovak Hussite chalice is just one example of the longevity of symbols.

[@christopherm5428]

Thanks mr Felton for another interesting video. I to have some of these stamps in my collection.

[@stanwhalley3083]

Another valuable segment of history, little know to most post WWII children. Thank you sir.

[@BroccoliRocks]

I remember seeing something a few years ago where a building where a swastika was removed after the war still had the "footprint" of one due to surrounding dirt on the building. Contemporary times and power washers enabled it to be washed away.

[@pokerofaces]

You think it's click bait but then you remember it's a Mark Felton video!

[@AL-yk9on]

Amazing information . Appreciate your videos

[@debrakleid5752]

I’m amazed at the content for these videos. I learned a lot about WW2 and thought I knew quite a bit and then I see more of your videos that amaze me with the content that you have come up with. Thanks for another video that is well done!

[@aka99]

i am pretty sure there is a ton of information abpout ww2 what we can learn.

[@65sneaky]

Just when you think youve covered most of WW2, you pop up with this little gem. Thank you for all the great work. I'd be interested to see a video of how the Propaganda used by Gorbals translated in how the world was manipulated over the last 3 years. Contentious I know, but the play book seems damn near the same.

[@jonathanljohnson]

Have no fear, millions of people fought in that war, in some capacity or other, all over the world; most of these could make an interesting synopsis, at very least!

[@Ass_of_Amalek]

goebbels-->apply standard english mispronounciation-->spell out mispronounciation-->gorbals 🤦

[@Slippindisc]

If you think that the propaganda machine we currently live under is the brain child of “GoRbals”, and only just started noticing it in the last 3 years, you really are as dim a bulb as your spelling would imply. At least go back to the Frankfurt School, if you’d like to have an idea of where we are and who brought us here. After that, find yourself some interviews of Yuri Bezmenov. Keep thinking until you understand.

[@Rosnoseros]

That's silly Goebbels and Hitler are on record praising western propaganda.

[@censured-again]

​@@PSMCR69NO, it will be a sample of his used toilet paper.

[@EdMcF1]

Imagine the shock outside the country of getting a letter from Germany in late 1945 with one of those stamps still on it.

[@troychristman5662]

Great video! I have a sheet of these I inherited from my grandfather, who was a WW2 vet (in the pacific theater) and a lifelong stamp collector. This explains their prominence!

[@Caligulashorse1453]

My dad has a massive stamp collection I’m not super huge into stamp collecting but it’s kinda cool to know some of the history within his collection

[@infantinofan]

I lived in West Germany in 1959-1960 when 10-11 years old and managed to get several Hitler head and other Nazi era stamps for my collection from local stamp collectors. Still have them 60 years later.

[@korbell1089]

Not sure if it was intentional or not but by flooding the stamp collecting market with those insured that even today they aren't worth much.😅😅

[@honeysucklecat]

You do great work, thanks!

[@eze8970]

TY, unusual, informative & interesting! 🙏🙏

[@tttyuhbbb9823]

That was brilliant, Dr. Mark!

[@oesypum]

The cessation of the postal services, and their gradual reinstatement is a vast subject, and deserving of its own mini series. Not mentioned is the post that was overrun by the allied advance, much was destroyed, but some was delivered after the cessation of hostilities. It is known as Überroller Post, there is no simple one word translation. The subject needs to be broasched in relation to the various Allied Zones, as there is little commonality between them. Many of the larger conurbations produced their own labells (stamps), particularly in the Soviet Zone, but not exclusively. Stamps for the Western areas of occupation had been printed prior to war's end, the AMPOST issues first issued in Aachen in 'March 1945, their use followed behind the Allied advance, however even when the guns fell silent, some areas in the Weatern Zones could not be readily accessed due to damaged infrastructure, roads rail, and bridges. The German post Office vehicle fleet was almost non existent, many of the vehiclles having been pressed into military service n the latter months of the war. A task for which they were never suitable, let alone designed. There are several Philatelic Study Groups that focus on the Postal History of Germany in the immediate aftermath. Again they are chiefly tied to one of the Zones.

[@rickglorie]

Uberroller is roll over I think

[@oesypum]

@@rickglorie Überroller describes mail posted in one period (i.e during hostilities), and is delivered in another (peacetime), now find one word that explains both circumstances. Note it is spelt with Ü not U

[@rickglorie]

@@oesypum that would be rollover then. In IT the word is used for a fluent migration to a new environment or new version of software. It's not on the scale of a regime change though. German has a tendency to write überroller without a space, in english they don't. Thank you for your excellent explanation.

[@DenariHD]

Another absolute banger of a video from mark.

[@jimsharp5044]

Something I didn’t know. Never to old to learn. Thanks Mr Mark!!

[@ianmasters8344]

I was given a stamp album many years ago by a family friend. It contains amongst others 19 Hitler stamps of varying values from low to high. There were also some from the pre- Hitler era of hyperinflation with face values of 1,5,20 and 100 overprints although I am not sure what the currency unit was.

[@obikenobi3157]

Could be "mark" too. There are even overprints with millions

[@XalphYT]

Is the denomination shown? *RM* would be for Reichsmark and *Pf* would be for Pfennig.

[@jakethetool698]

Although each of these videos is captivating, I’d love to hear one, about the Sullivan brothers. My mom has an original poster, showing the five brothers, displayed in her home. Looking at it, has always stirred some emotion.

[@barrydysert2974]

Thank You Dr Felton for this fabulous foray into philately! 🙏

[@johnrudy9404]

Good one Dr Felton. You are a font of knowledge.

[@michaelporzio7384]

Excellent Hollywood movie about post war Germany, the Billy Wilder comedy "A Foreign Affair" starring Marlene Dietrich. Wilder had first hand experience in post-war Germany and there were some humorous aspects (such as this) to the Denazification process. Thanks Dr. Felton.

[@dongilleo9743]

I am wondering if anything similar happened with German currency notes and coins. I imagine there still had to be some medium of exchange besides just barter and trade. I know eventually there was money created for the western zones of occupation, but it would have taken some time. How would you pay for stamps in the immediate post war era except with war time money?

[@skar9142]

Compliments to the chanell for the excellent quality of sound

[@mindriot69]

Great video, Mark. You always have such interesting subjects in your videos. WWII has been talked about and retold many a time but you still are passing knowledge on to this 60 year old guy. I always feel like I learn something from you. ✌🏽

[@scottanddebranelson8419]

dude how old are you really? how in the world do you even THINK of this stuff? jokes aside, you are a rare breed sir and i for one greatly appreciate not only you as person but as a link to a part of our history that MUST not be forgotten (though i fear it is) the sacrifices made to fight evil such as this can never be understated. and you help to keep that from happening. thank you very much for that.

[@paulbriere4872]

Again, my day comes to a stop when a new video from Dr. Felton appears. Thank you so much for your amazing work!

[@anonymousanonymous7250]

I found some old German postage stamps in our family attic, as my mother would collect postage stamps as a child; the shock was quite something.

[@davemcddd]

Dr. Mark uncovers yet another historical fact that I was totally unaware of.

[@texas_germanic7073]

I got a complete stamp collection of those ...some of those canceled ones are valuable depends on the type of cancelation

[@victorbeauvois]

Always very interesting and full of history and facts

[@mattbrown7816]

At the 3:12 mark I would swear that was John Cleese doing a sketch

[@Reaper08]

This channel and TIK History are the only history channels I need.

[@liam5382]

Your videos are so interesting. Thanks

[@GEDonly]

The NS Museum in Munich was absolutely amazing. The detail and timeline of how everything happened is kept and open to all. The library in the basement is also a great place to understand the history from various perspectives during that time. I can not recommend it enough for those who want to understand how such a destructive and manipulative force could prosper.

[@mediocreman6323]

0:55 - considering that the Nazis celebrated book burnings, this scene can be seen as a very strange way of poetic (sic) justice. 1:26 - you are correct about the difficulty in erasing the regime's ideology from the minds of the people. My own dear grandmother, who was a little girl during the Nazi era _and ¼ Jewish_ maintained for her entire life that Hitler was a good man and not to blame for anything evil that had happened. Again, she was ¼ Jewish, and my great aunts told me that, when they were kids, vaccines got tested on them. 1:36 - wrong, you can still find swastikas outside of museums, but they are very likely incredibly rare. I once worked in a very old building in the inner city, which had wrought-iron staircase railings (re)built during the Nazi era with ornamental swastikas in its pattern. But since this was a privately owned building, the ornamental pattern is not very striking and the wrought iron could not be replaced without basically destroying the entire staircase, the owners decided to leave it in place. I no longer have access to this building, so I cannot send you pictures, but I guess I might have found the only remainder of that kind in the country. 5:14 - yes, in Austria, the word “Österreich” (“Austria”) was printed over it, which has special significance, since the native word for Austria was forbidden in the German Reich, Österreich was to be called “Ostmark” (“eastern mark”), and even using the word Österreich could get you a visit by the Gestapo. Greetings from Vienna.

[@chrisbelvedere6653]

But do you know what books they were actually burning?

[@mediocreman6323]

@@chrisbelvedere6653 - they burned books by _a lot_ of people, in Austria, kids learn about that in school, actually. You might google for “nazi book burnings” to find out more, it is all well documented.

[@philipthomey7884]

Greetings from Newfoundland

[@Occident.]

They burned books that promoted Degeneracy and sick unnatural lifestyles. They done a good job. Unfortunately now we need another book burning.

[@faithlesshound5621]

I didn't know that Hitler went as far as banning the name "Österreich." That was military-grade self-hate, on a par with clearing out his grandmother's home village to use it for army exercises.

[@cat_city2009]

I could imagine Allied soldiers sending mail home from Germany with Hitler stamps as a joke.

[@Blarg]

Super interesting topic. Thank you Mark