Wind of change in German Post Office

Wind of change in German Post Office

When Sir Rowland Hill saw the first postage stamp, the Penny Black issued in the UK in 1840, it is unlikely that he could have envisaged the change in philately over the decades. For more than 100 years, most of the larger countries issued stamps on a limited basis with topics that were strictly relevant to that country. In the run up to the Second World War, Nazi Germany used its stamps as a… Source