LOT # 30415. Money order a sum of 41 rub. 96 kop. From: (Russia / Poland), Vilenskoy gubern. on 12.07.1904, To: Lodz (Russia / Poland), arr. 14.07.1904
Glubokoe (belor. Hlybokae, Pol. Głębokie) - a town in Belarus, the administrative center of Glubokskogo Vitebsk region (first-town Vilnius province of Poland, as well as the Republic of Poland, and later - Disna county Vilnius province).
Lodz (Polish Łódź, literally - "boat", "boat" is read as "¡uch") - the third largest city in Poland. Located in the heart of the country, 120 km south-west of Warsaw and is the center of the Polish textile and electronic industries. Founded in the XIII century, the status of the city from 1423.
LOT # 30417. Money order a sum of 25 rub. 00 kop. From: Prozoroki (Russia / Belarus) Vilenskoy guberni. on 25.06.1904, To: Yuhov (Russia ), arr. 02.07.1904
Village Prozoroki. Belar. - Prazarok³, Country - Belarus, Vitebsk region, Glubokskiy reg.
Yuhnov, Yukhnovskii county - an administrative unit within the governorship of Smolensk, Smolensk and Kaluga provinces that existed in 1775-1927, respectively. Center - Yukhnov. Smolensk province - an administrative unit within the Russian Empire and the RSFSR, which existed until 1929.
LÎÒ #30438. Reichskommissariat Ostland. Parcel card from - 18.08.1942 Riga, To: ...................... arriv.- 22.08.1942
Riga (Latvian: Rīga, pronounced [riːɡa]( listen)) is the capital and largest city of Latvia, a major industrial, commercial, cultural and financial centre of the Baltics[citation needed], and an important seaport, situated on the mouth of the Daugava. With 706,413 inhabitants (2010)[3] it is the largest city of the Baltic states. Riga's territory covers 307.17 km2 (118.60 sq mi) and lies between 1 and 10 metres (3.3 and 33 ft) above sea level,[5] on a flat and sandy plain.[5]
Reichskommissariat Ostland (i.e., Reich Commissariat of the Eastern Land) was the German name for the Nazi civil administration of part of the territories of Eastern Europe occupied by Nazi Germany during World War II. Ostland was the name given to the German-occupied territories of the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania), part of the eastern parts of pre-war Poland, and western parts of Belarus. The political organization for this territory - after an initial period of military occupation - was that of a German civil administration, nominally under the authority of the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories (Reichsministerium für die besetzten Ostgebiete) led by Nazi ideologist Alfred Rosenberg.
The main political objective, which the ministry laid out in the framework of National Socialist policies for the east established by Adolf Hitler, were the complete annihilation of the Jewish population and the settlement of ethnic Germans along with the expulsion or Germanization of parts of the native population - not only in the Reichskommissariat Ostland but also in the other German-occupied Soviet territories. Through the use of Einsatzgruppen A and B over a million Jews were killed in the Reichskommissariat Ostland.[1] The Germanization policies would, built on the foundations of the Generalplan Ost, later be carried through by a series of special edicts and guiding principles for the general settlement plans for the Ostland.[2]
Throughout 1943 and 1944, the Red Army gradually recaptured most of the territory in their advance on Germany, but Wehrmacht forces held out in the Courland pocket. With the end of the war in Europe and the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, the Reichskommissariat ceased to exist completely.
Ostland should not be confused with Ober Ost, which had a similar role as Ostland as an occupation authority for Baltic territories by the German Empire in World War I.
LÎÒ #30443. Reichskommissariat Ukraine. Regist. cover from Zhitomir (Ukraine) - 29.12.41 to Dresaen (Germany) arv. 03.01.42.
The Reichskommissariat Ukraine (Reich Commissariat of Ukraine; Ukrainian: Ðàéõñêîì³ñàð³àò Óêðà¿íà) was the civil administration of much of German-occupied Ukraine (which included adjacent areas of modern Belarus and pre-war Poland) during World War II. Between September 1941 and March 1944, the Reichskommissariat was administered by Reichskommissar Erich Koch as a colony. The administration's tasks included the pacification of the region and the exploitation, for German benefit, of its resources and people. Adolf Hitler issued a Fuehrer Decree defining the administration of the newly-occupied Eastern territories on 17 July 1941[1].
Before the German invasion, Ukraine was a constituent republic of the USSR, inhabited by Ukrainians with Russian, Polish, Jewish, Belorussian, German, Roma and Crimean Tatar minorities. It was a key subject of Nazi planning for the post-war expansion of the German state and civilization.
LÎÒ #30445. Generalgouvernoment. Galicia. Regist. cover from Lemberg today Lwow (Ukraine) - 04.12.41 to Berlin (Germany) arv. 06.12.41
The General Government (German: Generalgouvernement, Polish: Generalne Gubernatorstwo) was a part of the territories of Poland under Nazi German rule during World War II that were a separate region of the Greater German Reich (Großdeutsches Reich).[1] After Operation Barbarossa in August 1941, the former Polish voivodeships (districts) of Eastern Galicia (with a majority of Ukrainians) were added to the General Government by a decree issued by Adolf Hitler.
According to section III of the Fourth Hague Convention (1907), accepted by Germany, all of these acts were illegal from their inception, in terms of international and civil law.[3] The area was not a puppet state and had no goal of collaborating with Poles throughout the war, regardless of their political orientation. The Nazi authorities made a determined effort to avoid even mentioning the name "Poland" in government correspondence. The only exception to this were the German-backed banknotes and coins (called 'zloty' and 'grosz') printed in 1940 where that word was used for propaganda purposes. The government and administration of the General Government was composed entirely of Germans, with the intent that the area was eventually to become a German province. The only locals remaining were to be those of German descent.
LÎÒ #30444. Reichskommissariat Ukraine. Regist. cover from Volodymyr- Volynsky (Ukraine) - 06.6.42 to Leipzig (Germany) arv. 11.6.42.
The Reichskommissariat Ukraine (Reich Commissariat of Ukraine; Ukrainian: Ðàéõñêîì³ñàð³àò Óêðà¿íà) was the civil administration of much of German-occupied Ukraine (which included adjacent areas of modern Belarus and pre-war Poland) during World War II. Between September 1941 and March 1944, the Reichskommissariat was administered by Reichskommissar Erich Koch as a colony. The administration's tasks included the pacification of the region and the exploitation, for German benefit, of its resources and people. Adolf Hitler issued a Fuehrer Decree defining the administration of the newly-occupied Eastern territories on 17 July 1941[1].
Before the German invasion, Ukraine was a constituent republic of the USSR, inhabited by Ukrainians with Russian, Polish, Jewish, Belorussian, German, Roma and Crimean Tatar minorities. It was a key subject of Nazi planning for the post-war expansion of the German state and civilization.
