30th September 1930
Komotau
Commercial window envelope (no date) sent with provisional cancel from Komotau (Chomutov in the Czech Republic). The name of the business has been cut from the top of the envelope, however, they advertise themselves as representatives of the 'Association for chemical and metallurgical production'. Ref: 30.09.1938 - 15/31
Komotau
(Linked via 'Bochmann' in the index but not part of the Bochmann catalogue of 1952)
From Wikipedia:
By 1938 Chomutov had over 30,000 inhabitants. Part of the Reichsgau Sudetenland, it had a population comprising about 95% ethnic Germans. A very small Jewish population, (444 in 1930 – 1.3% of the total population), came under increasing pressure, and Chomutov was declared 'Judenrein' on 23rd September 1938 by the increasingly pro-Nazi administration. A week later, Chomutov and its surrounding districts were occupied by Nazi Germany as a result of the 1938 Munich Agreement. This broader, north-western border area of what is the modern-day Czech Republic was annexed by Germany and reorganized as the Reichsgau Sudetenland. After 1945, the previous population, German by a large majority, was expelled.
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