The Pleasure of Collecting.
A Ethnic view of Africa. The Richness and Beauty of African Culture and People.
100 years of German History told in Stamps, Letters and Postcards.
The Culture and the History of France in Stamps.
The Art in Stamps. Painting, Sculpture and Art Personalities in a Virtual Philatelic Museum.
Two new 10 centimes Postcards from German East Africa (Ruanda-Urundi territory under Belgian occupatin at Word War One).
After the First Reich (or Holy Roman Empire), from 962 to 1806, and the Second Reich, from 1871 to 1918, and mainly because the humiliation which led to the fall of Emperor Wilhelm II at the end of World War I and all the impositions that the German nation had to accept unconditionally, Adolf Hitler nurtured the dream of a Third Reich, which ends up imposing in 1933, after the rise to power of his National Socialist Party, which won the electoral supremacy during the political disorder that followed the economic crisis of 1929-1930, which creates instability and favour the emergence of extremism.
Founded in 1919, in the aftermath of the humiliating Treaty of Versailles of that year - by which Germany is obliged to pay war damages to the Allies, to reduce its military and abandon the colonies -, the Nazi Party of Hitler, after the failed uprising 1923, decides to gain power through legal means. However, the relative prosperity and stability that Germany knows between 1924 and 1929 gives poor results for the Nazis elections.
Anti-Semitism was another facet of this policy, by which Germany intended to "cleanse" the country. Thus, Hitler, in 1933, orders the expulsion of Jews from government positions. The persecution that moves them unreal outlines affects from 1935, with the abolition of citizenship rights and the flight of nearly 500 000 Jews from the country (where circulating properly identified by a yellow Star of David).
In March 1938, the Germans occupied Austria, attaching it to the Reich (Anschluss). That same year, they were able to occupy the Czech region, most of Germany, the Sudetenland, with the consent of England and France (Munich Agreements). What remained of Czechoslovakia is dismembered in the next year, with the German protectorate of Bohemia-Moravia tax.
On the first day of next month, however, the Germans forced the Polish border and march on Danzig, whose "corridor" wanted to join the conquering East Prussia, which triggers the Second World War (whose history is inseparable from the Hitler regime). The Third Reich was defeated and completely destroyed in the conflict, despite dominating scathingly until 1941 (Blitzkrieg).
Declaring war on several European powers, in turn, and then to USA, suffer tremendous setbacks on the Russian front: Nazi Germany is losing military strength (particularly with the Allied bombings of the country from 1943), being harassed for their borders and ending to surrender unconditionally in 1945, but after losing former territories and redefining its borders (Yalta and Potsdam agreements).
Johann Sebastian Bach born in Eisenach, Saxe-Eisenach, was a German composer,
organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works
for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the
Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity.
In Weimar, he had the opportunity to play and compose for the organ, and to
perform a varied repertoire of concert music with the duke's ensemble. A master
of contrapuntal technique, Bach's steady output of fugues (is a contrapuntal
composition in two or more voices, built on a subject or theme that is
introduced at the beginning and recurs frequently in the course of the
composition) began in Weimar. The largest single body of his fugal writing is
"Das wohltemperierte Clavier" (The well-tempered keyboard).
Apart from his brief tenures in Arnstadt and Mühlhausen, this was Bach's
first government position in a career that had mainly involved service to the
aristocracy. This final post, which he held for 27 years until his death,
brought him into contact with the political machinations of his employer, the
Leipzig Council.
The smaller Yacht issues all have exactly the same design with differences
only in the text. Because the size of the blank scrolls could not be altered,
significant changes to font size and structure were necessary to accommodate
colony names of varying length: German Southwest Africa stood out from other
issues for its tightly cramped letters, while Togo and Samoa required decorative
emblems to fill in the yawning blank spaces around their names.
