Eastern Silesia (Exhibit)
This web page contains links to the content of the exhibit pages for the exhibit 'Eastern Silesia' by the late
Al Kugel.
With the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918, several successor states were created, including Czechoslovakia and Poland.
A conflict ensued between these two entities over the boundaries of three areas -- the Teschen District in the easternmost part of Austrian Silesia and the Zips and Arva Counties in what had been the northern fringe of Hungary. Military skirmishes between them caused the Allies to establish a Control Commission to for a temporary administration and a possible plebiscite to determine which country the inhabitants favored.
In the end, new boundaries drawn up at a ministerial conference in Spa, Belgium on 28 July 1920 were accepted by the two protagonists, making a plebiscite unnecessary. However, some locations were transferred from one country to the other as a result.
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.
This exhibit contains 16 pages, therefore, one frame.
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Single Frame of the Exhibit of Silesia
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