The Allied Occupation of Germany 1918 - 1935
This web page contains links to the content of the exhibit pages for the exhibit
'The Allied Occupation of Germany 1918 - 1935' by Al Kugel.
On 11 November 1918, there was a great celebration as the First World War ended with the signing of the Armistice between Germany and the Allied Powers. The fighting had lasted for more than four years, involving dozens of countries and resulting in millions of casualties. In its aftermath, the old European imperial system of geopolitics collapsed, with the overthrow of the Austro-Hungarian, German, Russian and Turkish Empires and their replacement by a large contingent of smaller, weaker and more nationalistic entities. Partly as a result of the harsh terms imposed by the victors, the economies of the defeated powers (and some of the victors) proved fragile, inflation ran rampant and political power in a number of significant countries was subsequently seized by totalitarian regimes -- including the National Socialists in Germany. In the end, the 'war to end all wars' proved to be a dream, and a new and even bloodier conflict was to follow just 20 years later.
This exhibit was created by, and is the property of the late Al Kugel, and is being supplied by his heirs as a courtesy to the Military Postal History Society. (See the MPHS webpage) The Military Postal History Society (MPHS) is a non-profit organization for philatelists and stamp collectors interested in the collecting and studying of the postal aspects of all wars and military actions of all countries, including soldiers' campaign covers, naval mail, occupation and internment covers, patriotics, propaganda, V-mail, censorship and similar related material.
These exhibit page scans were made from black and white photocopies of the original exhibits.
The photocopy PDF files were re-scanned with the ocrmypdf program, which makes them fully text-searchable.
Those exhibits were created by Al Kugel many years ago, and are presented here for historical and research purposes. As far as the MPHS is aware, there are no color scans available of these older exhibit pages, nor for any of the illustrated postal history items.
This exhibit, created by the late Al Kugel, is made up of 10 frames, each frame containing 16 pages. Due to their size, each frame is available as a separate searchable PDF file. (See the PDF information page for additional help with this file format.)
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