Five hundred years ago, it was possible too. A German noble family originating from Italy that established a postal route between the then Netherlands and Austria. It was the von Thurn und Taxis family who, for two centuries, maintained a city palace...
From the time when I still collected stamps of the German Democratic Republic, I remember the commotion surrounding an issue that was exciting at the time. It was the issue of two stamps on July 20, 1956, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the death...
As a nine-year-old boy who had just started collecting stamps (my father had been collecting for much longer), I received several series of stamps for my birthday that had been issued in 1951 by the German Democratic Republic. The series had been purchased...
After the Second World War, Germany was occupied by the Allies. The eastern part was occupied by Russian troops of what later became the German Democratic Republic. For the purposes of the postal service, the country was divided into districts (Ober Post Direktion)...
Chemnitz, located in the German state of Saxony, was, after Leipzig and Dresden, the largest city in the former German Democratic Republic. From May 10, 1953, to May 31, 1990, the city's name was changed to Karl-Marx-Stadt. The...
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...
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