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This WW2 Feldpost envelope that once contained secret correspondence is ** SOLD **

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ENVELOPE FOR SECRET WW2 FELDPOST CORRESPONDENCE

The envelope above once contained secret (Geheim) correspondence. It originated at Nachschub-Bataillon 627 and the recipient was the Korpsführer of Third Company who was instructed to open it personally (Persönlich zu öffnen).

On the back of this 4-7/8 x 6-1/8 inch envelope is a round Nazi eagle and swastika Dienststelle stamp with the Feldpost number 20050. Online we found that this number was assigned to the Staff of the 627 Supply Company.

The World War II German envelope was carefully opened along the top edge. It is empty and in very nice used condition, exactly as shown.

The original Feldpostkarte show above was sent from one member of the Wehrmacht to another on 2 July 1940.  A Truppenführer with Feldpostnummer 069003 sent greetings to a Soldat with Feldpostnummer 13733.  Poor condition exactly as shown above.

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VERY RARE DACHAU SS ECONOMIC AND ADMINISTRATION SCHOOL STUDENT ENVELOPE WITH LETTER POSTMARKED 1 MARCH 1943

This is a 100% original Third Reich Nazi envelope with its original letter sent by Feldpost by SS-Oberscharführer K. Daspelgruber from Dachau to the Proske family in Steyr, Gau Oberdonau in 1943.

The 35 mm round eagle and swastika stamp on the front of the light grey-blue envelope shows SS-Oberscharführer Daspelgruber was stationed at Dachau and was part of the Vorbereitungs-Lehrkompanie of the SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt (SS-WVHA or SS Main Economic and Administrative Office run by SS-Obergruppenführer Oswald Pohl) of the Waffen-SS. The SS-WVHA was a Nazi organization responsible for managing the finances, supply systems and business projects for the Allgemeine-SS.

The SS-WVHA had its own educational facility, the SS-Verwaltungsschule Dachau where future SS administrative leaders were trained. The school was on the grounds of the SS-Übungslager Dachau (SS Dachau Training Camp where future concentration camp guard personnel were also trained - shown right for reference) adjacent to Dachau Concentration Camp, and the administration of the school was housed in the SS-Totenkopf staff building.

A cursory look at the content of Speer's book Infiltration will give interested readers a good idea of what Oberscharführer Daspelgruber, the man whose correspondence we are selling, was doing in Dachau in the late winter of 1943.

The rare envelope measures 4-½ x 6-3/8 inches, and the neatly typed two-sided letter dated at Dachau on 28 February 1943 measures 5-¾ x 8-¼ inches. Daspelgruber wrote about the visit he and his wife made to Friedrichshafen to his father and his new wife before going on to Dachau. He wrote about the crowded train trip, air raid alarm upon arrival in Friedrichshafen, the awkward visit with his father, that he liked his father's new wife, etc. At the end of the letter he requests that somebody from the Proske family send the boot trees or stretchers that he had forgotten, and that he hoped to stay in Dachau until his next training assignment.

In Albert Speer's book Infiltration, published in English in 1981, he records that it was Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler who through SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt was determined to infiltrate the war economy with his own people and build an SS industrial conglomerate. Acting with Hitler's consent, Himmler intended to make the SS independent of state and party and to build an empire of companies within it to solve the great technological problems of the era.

We do not know what happened SS-Oberscharführer Daspelgruber, but the name is not particularly uncommon in some parts of Austria even today. Very rarely seen unique 74 year old SS material in very good used condition.

The rare 1943 SS-Feldpost sent from Dachau is ** SOLD **

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