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1938 Birthday letter postmark - Roy Burton - 07-26-2026
Hi Everybody (Note first post on forum)
While at the 2026 York Stamp show in the UK on 17th July 2026, I stumbled across this letter envelope.
Would this be considered a type of first day cover due to the postmark ?
Adolf Hitler's 49th Birthday 1938 stamp Third Reich Germany
Below an except form an American newspaper The NEW York Times;-
LINK https://www.nytimes.com/1938/04/20/archives/reich-mobilized-to-honor-hitler-49th-birthday-fete-is-opened-with.html
BERLIN, April 19.-"Great Germany," which puts its new name in the same proud juxtaposition with Great Britain as Rome does its imperial title with the British Empire, has been mobilized to celebrate tomorrow the forty-ninth birthday of its creator, Adolf Hitler, with greater pomp and ceremony than ever marked the birthday celebration of either a German or an Austrian emperor.
The climax will be a parade before Hitler of some 9,500 men selected from thirty different army units representing all branches of both the German and the former Austrian armed forces down the famed Unter den Linden tomorrow noon. Included in the Austrian representation is, notably, the first battalion of the Fourteenth Infantry regiment of Linz, whose commander Major Ruckser, and other officers and men in the regiment were leaders in the secret "National Socialist Soldiers' Ring," which worked for the Anschluss in the Austrian army long before the Anschluss occurred.
On reading the above paragraph I was surprised by the support of parts of the Austrian Army in the Anschluss , I knew that the invasion went unopposed.
Kind Regards