PRISONER OF WAR - GERMAN CAMPS - CHRISTMAS MAILS: 28 Dec. 1940 PPC from a Czech inmate in Buchenwald Concentration Camp sending "Good wishes" to an addressee in Bohemia; 1942 Christmas & New Year card drawn by POW, KV Wood, in Auschwitz and sent by Private Harris to his wife in London with camp hs, etc. plus another 1942 Christmas greetings illus. camp, barbed wire, tower, etc. also from harris to his wife with fine violet Feldpost 27340 A triangle hs. (3 items) Cross Reference: GERMANY, MILITARY - P.O.W. MAIL (Image)

PRISONER OF WAR - ILLUSTRATED CARDS SENT FROM P.O.W.s: 1941-44 with 22 Nov. 1941 PC Biberach Oflag to Godalming illus. with Santa going over the wire next to German sentry tower "I really AM Father Christmas"; Dec. 1941 PC illustrated with a sailing ship with Christmas greetings from Stalag XB, Marlag to Ashtead, Surrey; 7 Dec. 1942 colour PC with verse sent from Bombardier Mathieson, OFLAG IIIC, to his wife in Argyll; 1941 colour illus. PC with verse from Bdr Holmes, Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf to Harrogate; 5 Nov. 1944 colour PC of alpine chalet from Sgt Dexter Stalag XVIIIA Linz to his wife in Kings Lynn; 10 Dec. 1942 PC of a snow scene with pencilled "A MERRY XMAS" from Cpl Hixon OFLAG IIIC Lubben to Leeds, etc. Fine selection of cards. (15 items) Cross Reference: MILITARY - P.O.W. MAIL, GERMANY (Image)

PRISONER OF WAR - BALANCE OF THE P.O.W. MAILS INC. COLDITZ 1941-46 with 19 Dec. 1942 fold out letter env. (minor faults and slight trimmed at left) Oflag IVC (Colditz) to Steyning Sussex with both red and blue Oflag IV C censor hs "allowed to send back two Christmas cards..", etc.; Nov. 1944 fold out letter env. from Canadian priest Robert Barsalow, Marlag & Milag Nord Camp to a nun in Paisley; 23 Dec. 1946 Air Mail Letter Card RMS Rangitata (enroute Suez) to Campden Glos. "arriving Suez Christmas night ... then Naples to land our Italian POW.."; 14 Dec. 1944 fold out letter env. Camp L Ramsay, Isle of Man to Germany endorsed "Special Xmas letter Written in German Internee Mail" with camp ds & 17 April 1945 Hamburg cds; 1941 blue printed PC "NOEL 1941 -SALON DU PRISONNIER" from Vincennes to Stalag VIF Bocholt, Munster, etc. (11 items) Cross Reference: MILITARY - P.O.W. MAIL, GERMANY, FRANCE (Image)