The world keeps turning even without DWDD. Alertness, solidarity, togetherness, and hope are the keywords of the King's speech. Every day, all newspapers, including their supplements, fill their corona news. Corona experts in the media provide on all kinds of...
A surprise bag, or 'Wundertüte' as our eastern neighbors call it. It is a small, closed, rectangular paper bag in which a surprise is hidden. You could buy it or receive it for free with some product. You can...
A stamp that piqued my curiosity as early as 1951 was one featuring an image of a clock with the caption 'Freiheitsglocke Berlin'. At that time, the internet did not yet exist for the general public, and I was dependent on written sources. Our...
After the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany entered into force on May 23, 1949, the postal services of the Allied occupiers continued to operate pending the establishment of the Deutsche Bundespost on April 1, 1950. But...
The German Bundespost was put into operation on April 1, 1950. As a successor to the series of constructions issued by the British and American occupiers under the name Deutsche Post, the first values of the... were... on June 20, 1951.
On May 25, 2011, the blog discussed the border adjustment that took place following the annexation of a piece of German territory by the Netherlands as 'reparations'. One of the villages located in the 'acquired' area was Süsterseel. This agricultural...
When I first heard about the Berlin Wall as a child, I was deeply impressed. A wall, just like that, right in the middle of the city where you live. People who became brutal overnight...
During the Second World War, many buildings in the Netherlands were destroyed and the infrastructure damaged or rendered unusable. After the war, an attempt was therefore made to repair the damage by demanding compensation of 25 billion guilders from Germany....
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