14th March 1945
Überroller Mail
FURTHER RESEARCH REQUIRED. Überroller mail. Correspondence written and dated on 3rd March 1945 with cancellation from Wiesengründ (Sudetengau) to an address in Wiesbaden. Franked with 4 & 8 Pf Hitler head definitive stamps that appear to have passed through the domestic German postal system but with further transmission ceasing and the processing of the mail resuming with the British occupation making this 'Uberroller mail'- 'overtaken' mail (postal matter accepted by the Third Reich German or German occupied postal authorities and delivered by the Allied Occupation Forces after the German surrender). The cover has been opened and resealed with 'MIL. CEN.-CIVIL MAILS' tape by British military censors, with hand-stamp '13239' censor to lower left corner. As with other covers of this type the applied Hitler stamps remained un-obliterated. Ref: 14.03.1945
The dates of the Allied occupation of towns and cities in Germany (October 1944 onwards) are recorded on the appropriate page as found under 'Village, Town and City names' in the index. These help identify überroller-post items.
Further überroller-post correspondence will be displayed on these pages.
'MILITARY CENSORSHIP CIVIL MAILS'
Hand-stamp identification (American Zone)
Number/ large or small numerals/ location of office
10000 - 10160/ Large/ Eßlingen
10101 - 10400/ Large/ Offenbach (partly Überroller Munich)
10401 - 10600/ Large/ Lücke (partly Überroller Munich)
10601 - 10800/ Large/ Munich
10801 - 10900/ Large/ Eßlingen
10901 - 10999/ Large/ Offenbach
11000 - 11299/ Small/ Munich
11300 - 11899/ Small/ Lücke (partly Offenbach)
11900 - 11999/ Small/ Berlin
12000 - 12400/ Small/ Offenbach (partly Bremen)
12401 - 12450/ Small/ Eßlingen
12451 - 12499/ Small/ Offenbach
12500 - 12999/ Small/ Lücke
13000 - 13299/ Small/ Munich (partly Nuremberg)
13300 - 13799/ Small/ Offenbach (partly Bremen, Überroller Munich)
13329: 14.03.1945
13800 - 14299/ Small/ Lücke
14300 - 14499/ Small/ Eßlingen (partly Nuremberg)
14500 - 14799/ Small/ Munich
14800 - 14999/ Small/ Lücke
15000 - 15750/ Small/ Eßlingen
Source: Meschenmoser, 1984
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