7.1915 K.u.K. Feldpost to Landwehr Inf.Rgt. No.23. Zara

 03.VII.1915 feldpost card mailed from Teplitz Schonau(today in Czech republic) to "Dukaressa" b. Karlstadt Kroatien, this is misspelled "Duga Resa", near Karlovac, Croatia. Adressed to an NCO of II.Ersatz komp. (2.training company), Landwehr Infanterie(infantry) Regiment 23.Zara. 23.Landwehr.inf.rgt. Zara recruited in northern Dalmatia, soldiers were mostly Croats. Text is in German.

Very interesting is the front side of the card, this in an obituary for Italy.  On the Pentecost 23.V.1915 Italy betrayed its former allies and declared war on Austro-Hungary , this is all noted in the text (to translate text in the picture use google translate). Italy was promised large parts of Croatia (Istria,Dalmatia) to join war on Entente side.

4.1943 Waffen SS to Vrbanja, Croatia

 

19.04.1943 letter from SS-Truppenübungsplatz “Debica”/“Heidelager” to Vrbanja ,Croatia. There are following cancels: feldpost cancel 19.04.1943, cancel Waffen SS/ SS Rekr. Depot Debica, AS- SS censor cancel and arrival cancel Vrbanja 10.05.1943. Text is in Croatian an SS-man a Croatian volksdeutsche named Plaff is writing to his wife. He notes that his unit is moving soon to France.  Waffen SS training grounds Debica were on 15.03.1943 renamed Heidelager, hence the old name is in cancel. On the back cover adress is Pustkovo, Distrikt Krakau, G.G (Generalgouvernement). Pustkow is a village near Debica which is a city in Poland, near Krakow.

Gorski zdrugovi Domobranstva - Mountain brigades of NDH

I posted a new article about Mountain brigades - Gorski zdrugovi (click!) or use link at Articles in English at the top right of the page. 

 Here i will post some photos of mail from Gorski zdrugovi:

28.06.1943 I.battalion II. Gorski zdrug

12.08.1944 cancel in green colour : Stožer 9.gorske pukovnije (Headquarters of 9th mountain regiment) 2.Gorski zdrug

12.06.1942 3.Gorska pješačka pukovnija(Mountain infantry regiment), III.Gorski zdrug

10.1944 I.bojna II.Gorskog zdruga, written in old numeration, it should be I.bojna 2.Gorskog zdruga. (I.battalion 2.Mountain brigade)

11.06.1943 2.satnija II.bojne V. Gorskog zdruga (2,company,II.battalion, V. Mountain brigade),official mail with unit cancels.

13.02.1943 Osnutak doknadne bojne II.Gorski zdrug Požega (replacement battalion II.Mountain brigade)

 

4.1943 - Zemun, Croatia to Regia Scuola Tecnica di Polizia, Roma, Italia

 21.04.1943 Easter card from  a member of Zapovjedničtvo redarstvene straže in  Zemun, Croatia (Headquarters of police guards) to tenente (Lieutenant) in Regia Scuola Tecnica di Polizia in Roma, Italy. (Police academy in Rome). 

Members of Croatian military(domobranstvo), gendarmerie(oružništvo) and police(redarstvo) were trained in Reich and Italy as well. Huge part of those men were trained in Germany , therfore mail from and to Italian military and police schools is very rare.

When Italy surrendered in 9.1943  there were 125 Croatian police and gendarmerie members training in Rome, this card is most likely from a former pupil of this police academy in Rome.

04.1916 K.u.K Maschinengewehr Abt.Inf.Rgt 53 to Croatia

 06.04.1916 KuK feldpost card from Maschinengewehr Abteilung No.5, I.batallion, 53.Infantry regiment to Novi Slankamen , Syrmia , Slavonia. At the time Novi Slankamen was inhabited mostly by Croats and this card is written in Croatian. Inf.regiment 53. von Dankl was common army unit that recruited mostly around Zagreb but Croats from other areas were also included in the unit. Mailed via Fp.71 that served XI. corps on the Russian front, sender writtes that he is looking at domes of Černovica(Czernowitz,Bukowina).

2.1944. Waffen SS to Zemun Croatia

 25.02.1944 Fp.59922 to Zemun Croatia (Semlin,Kroatien). Fp.59922 was used by Sammellager II der Waffen-SS Kroatien, later by  SS-Sammellager Agram(Zagreb) and Esseg(Osijek). This letter is from SS-Sammellager Agram(Zagreb). Text is in German , sender was Croatian Volksdeutsche, and probably member of SS division Prinz Eugen(see text). Feldpost and units cancel with Fp.59922 are present as well sa SS censor cancel AS in green

About blog - 20 000 visits and 2 interesting NDH covers

This blog started on 17.08.2019,  3 years later on 24.08.2022 the blog reached 10.000 visits. 

Today 21.03.2024 we reached 20.000 visits. Thanks to everyone who has visited this blog.

I'm posting today two interesting items,  though not a feldpost.

26.06.1942  card from Sarajevo to Bystricem pod Hostynem , Protektorat Morava, today Czech republic. Wehrmacht censorship.

Intersting is rare purple cancel in Croatian: "Čuvajte se pjegavca - Čistoća čuva život" or "Beware of typhus - Cleanness(hygiene) saves life"

01.04.1942 letter from Zagreb to Belgrade, Serbia. During WWII there was no postal service beetween Croatia and Serbia, written contact with people on the other side was possible through the International Red Cross. This letter has red cancel "Croatian Red Cross, main office Zagreb", at the back is the Wehrmacht censorship tape. There are contents in the cover but censor (green)numbers on the cover and paper are not the same, therefore the contents are not from this letter.

2.1944 Panzerarmee Nachrichten Regiment 2 to Ogulin, Croatia.

 

19.02.1944 letter from Fp.38558 or 8.Kompanie Panzer Armee Nachrichten Regiment 2 to Ogulin Croatia. Panzerarmee-Nachrichten-Regiment 2 served with 2. Panzer-armee in Croatia during its stay  8.1943-2.12.1944. This letter was mailed via Fp.59819 - Feldkommandantur 1036 , see purple cancel at the front. Feldkommandantur 1036 was under the command of German Plenipotentiary General in NDH and this feldkommandatur was stationed in Karlovac and had  additional Platz-Kommandanturs  in Sisak and Bihać. Letter has contents written in German.

6.1943 - II.gorski zdrug in Konjic to Ivankovo, Slavonia

 28.06.1943 card from 2.sat, I.bojna, II.gorski zdrug (2.company, 1.battalion, 2.mountain brigade)in Konjic, in north Herzegovina to Ivankovo near Vinkovci in Slavonia, Croatia. Text is in Croatian a lieutenant writes to his mother a midwife(primalja) in Ivankovo. Message is interesting, he thanks for a suitecase he recived, notes that a soap is missing as a soldier that carried it was 'visited' by partisans who took it. He states that it is good(luck) that this soldier made it back to the unit. 

On the 07.06.1943 restructuring of Mountain brigades was started under German supervision, the units in this cards adress are named under old organisation. 

3.1915 K.u.K Marinefeldpost, SMS Helgoland to Samobor

 

01.03.1915 K.u.K Marinefeldpost card from SMS Helgoland to Samobor, Croatia. Photograph was used as a card, text is in Croatian. Sender notes that photo isn't good because light was low in "verstatte"(local usage of german:werkstatt, in english-workshop). Ships postal cancel Helgoland and ships censors cancel Zensuriert present. This censor cancel was used only in 2-3.1915. Helgoland was a cruiser with crew of 340 men.

10.1944 - 13. Marine Ersatz Abteilung to Varaždin Croatia

22.10.1944 letter from Croatian sailor training with 13. Marine Ersatz Abteilung in Dreschvitz on Rügen island to Varaždin Croatia. Briefstempel reads 13.Marine Ersatz Abteilung, Saßnitz which is also located on Rügen island in the Baltic sea. Censored by Wehrmacht censors, this letter arrived more then a month later, arrival cancel Varaždin 04.12.1944. Its a folding feldpost sheet with 1944 calendar at the back, such covers mailed to Croatia are very rare. Text is in Croatian, sender writes that it is safe where he is now, that he is learning German in school and attends (Kriegsmarine) courses.

3.1944 - Posadni sat Osijek to Našice

 

18.03.1944 letter from Posadni sat (Garisson company) Osijek stationed in Tvrđa, Osijek to Markovac near Našice with contents. Text is in Croatian, it is a letter to a girlfriend. Regular postal charge 3,5 kuna was paid in a single stamp, arrival cancel Našice 25.03.1944. This letter traveled 7 days a road distance of 54km, today by car a 50 min. drive.  Censored in Osijek , nice square cancel Cenzura br.17 in red. Osijek censor office usually used red ink for cancels unlike others in Croatia.

K.u.K Marine 1914/15 SMS Sebenico to Fiume, Croatia

 

K.uK Marinefeldpost - undated cover mailed from SMS Sebenico to Fiume(Rijeka) Croatia. SMS Sebenico was a Zara class torpedo-criuser commissioned in 1882 with crew of 13 officers and 135 sailors. The ship served as a training ship with the naval artillery school from 1903 to May 1915. From the beginning of WW I  it was used as  a guardship in Šibenik port and later in Novigrad. In 1918 it was assigned to the torpedo school and served there until the end of World War I. This cover with note Feldpost is from WW I era, probably from 1914 or early 1915 before Marinefeldpost in Pola was estsbilshed. Naval mail from before WW I wasn't marked as feldpost and the postage was always paid.