The top says "Unfallbekämpfung der Deutschen Reichspost", in english "German Reichs Posts fight againt accidents". Aound the Shield "Eigene Vorsicht- Bester Unfallschutz" = "Self Caution-Best Accident prefention". I would think they are a cinderellas for a campaign for accident prevention. I will see if I can find anything on some German web site.
" I would think they are a cinderellas for a campaign for accident prevention."
There are also a lot of postcards of this campaign.
accident prevention
the German Reichspost
We all have to work together
to prevent accidents
P54 DR Post No. 108 accident control
the German Reichspost
Do not give an excessive signal!
Sender :
Place of residence, also delivery or central post office
Street, house number, part of the building, city value or post locker number
Accident control by the German Reichspost
Every ray of light - one goal
therefore better darken
D.R. Post No. 380 Order No. 252
Use this card for your typesetting
Relatives and acquaintances
Accident control
the German Reichspost
Sport steals the body
and thereby protects him
also against accidents!
Backside of postcard above
Down here a very nice letter with on the back such a cinderella....
SPRING NICHT
IN SCHNELLEN LAUF
AUF STRASSENBAHN UND AUTO
AUF
which means :
DO NOT JUMP IN FAST RUN ON A TRAIN OR A CAR
Thank you OPA and Hockeynut for your information. It is always interesting to learn
something new.. I found this in a box lot along with a 50000 Mark note dated 1922. Which
show just how bad the inflation was in Germany that year.
Stamp collecting is such a catalyst for learning about history and other things..
".... 50000 Mark note dated 1922. ...."
By 1923 50,000 marks would not even pay for a postcard.
To fully understand how much this was, a German billion is not the same as an American billion. An American billion is 1,000 million, whereas a German billion is 1,000 times as much, in other words one million x one million = 1,000,000,000,000.
So this bill was 100,000,000,000,000 marks. Which of course is peanuts compared to the insane hyperinflation in Hungary in 1946 :-)
Here an article about the cost of a single bread in the hyperinflation in germany :
A Single Bread Costs 4.6 Million During Germany's Hyperinflation in 1923
The 1921-1924 hyperinflation happened mainly because of three things:
- the ongoing internal political instability in the country,
- the occupation of the Ruhr district by foreign troops,
- and when the Weimar (modern-day Germany) government printed too much banknotes to pay reparations after the 1923 French invasion.
Because the banknotes were not matched by Germany's production, their value fell.
In 1922, a loaf of bread cost 163 marks.
By September 1923, during hyperinflation, the price crawled up to 1,500,000 marks
and at the peak of hyperinflation, in November 1923, a loaf of bread costs
200,000,000,000 marks.
A german woman lights a fire with worthless banknotes.
German children are photographed launching a kite made of worthless banknotes
Can someone please tell me what these are. Thanks.
re: Need help to ID German booklet 1942
The top says "Unfallbekämpfung der Deutschen Reichspost", in english "German Reichs Posts fight againt accidents". Aound the Shield "Eigene Vorsicht- Bester Unfallschutz" = "Self Caution-Best Accident prefention". I would think they are a cinderellas for a campaign for accident prevention. I will see if I can find anything on some German web site.
re: Need help to ID German booklet 1942
" I would think they are a cinderellas for a campaign for accident prevention."
re: Need help to ID German booklet 1942
There are also a lot of postcards of this campaign.
accident prevention
the German Reichspost
We all have to work together
to prevent accidents
P54 DR Post No. 108 accident control
the German Reichspost
Do not give an excessive signal!
Sender :
Place of residence, also delivery or central post office
Street, house number, part of the building, city value or post locker number
Accident control by the German Reichspost
Every ray of light - one goal
therefore better darken
D.R. Post No. 380 Order No. 252
Use this card for your typesetting
Relatives and acquaintances
Accident control
the German Reichspost
Sport steals the body
and thereby protects him
also against accidents!
Backside of postcard above
re: Need help to ID German booklet 1942
Down here a very nice letter with on the back such a cinderella....
SPRING NICHT
IN SCHNELLEN LAUF
AUF STRASSENBAHN UND AUTO
AUF
which means :
DO NOT JUMP IN FAST RUN ON A TRAIN OR A CAR
re: Need help to ID German booklet 1942
Thank you OPA and Hockeynut for your information. It is always interesting to learn
something new.. I found this in a box lot along with a 50000 Mark note dated 1922. Which
show just how bad the inflation was in Germany that year.
Stamp collecting is such a catalyst for learning about history and other things..
re: Need help to ID German booklet 1942
".... 50000 Mark note dated 1922. ...."
By 1923 50,000 marks would not even pay for a postcard.
re: Need help to ID German booklet 1942
To fully understand how much this was, a German billion is not the same as an American billion. An American billion is 1,000 million, whereas a German billion is 1,000 times as much, in other words one million x one million = 1,000,000,000,000.
So this bill was 100,000,000,000,000 marks. Which of course is peanuts compared to the insane hyperinflation in Hungary in 1946 :-)
re: Need help to ID German booklet 1942
Here an article about the cost of a single bread in the hyperinflation in germany :
A Single Bread Costs 4.6 Million During Germany's Hyperinflation in 1923
The 1921-1924 hyperinflation happened mainly because of three things:
- the ongoing internal political instability in the country,
- the occupation of the Ruhr district by foreign troops,
- and when the Weimar (modern-day Germany) government printed too much banknotes to pay reparations after the 1923 French invasion.
Because the banknotes were not matched by Germany's production, their value fell.
In 1922, a loaf of bread cost 163 marks.
By September 1923, during hyperinflation, the price crawled up to 1,500,000 marks
and at the peak of hyperinflation, in November 1923, a loaf of bread costs
200,000,000,000 marks.
A german woman lights a fire with worthless banknotes.
German children are photographed launching a kite made of worthless banknotes