International memorials and memorials

First day cover

From 1963 onwards, at least one special stamp was issued annually by the German Post Office of the GDR under the name International Memorials and Memorials . Almost all of these stamps were issued in the months of August, September and October of the year of issue and thus close to September 1st, the date of the attack on Poland by the National Socialist German Reich . In 1990 , the year of German reunification , there was no longer any new motif; the stamp issues of this year showed rather apolitical motives.

The motifs shown often represent memorials against the atrocities of World War II . The value grades of the stamps regularly corresponded to the postage for international postcards and letters in non-socialist countries, so that the GDR's self- image as an anti-fascist state with postal means, especially in this area of ​​international mail should be documented.

List of issues and motives

Legend

• Image: An edited image of the brand mentioned. The ratio of the size of the stamps to each other is shown approximately to scale in this article.
• Description: A brief description of the motif and / or the reason for the issue. In the case of issued series or blocks , the descriptions that belong together are indented with a marker.
• Value: The face value of the individual stamp in pfennigs . A "+" means that it is an additional stamp (= postage value + donation).
• Issue Date: The date this stamp was first sold.
• Edition: As far as known, the number of this edition offered for sale is given here.
• Design: As far as is known, it is stated here who designed this brand.
• Mi.-No .: This stamp is listed in the Michel catalog under the corresponding number.

image	description	value	Issue date	Edition	draft	Mi. -No.
	Monument with a bowl of flames, Treblinka Treblinka extermination camp	20th	20th August 1963	8,000,000	Horst Weiss	975
	Monument in the Leningrad Memorial ( Saint Petersburg ) Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery	25th	August 12, 1964	2,500,000	Horst Weiss	1048
	Putten Memorial ( Netherlands ) Case putti	25th	October 19, 1965	3,000,000	Horst Weiss	1141
	Oradour-sur-Glane memorial , ruins of the village, French national colors Oradour massacre	25th	September 9, 1966	7,000,000	Horst Weiss	1206
	Figures of the Kragujevac Memorial ( Serbia ) Kraljevo and Kragujevac massacres	25th	20th September 1967	4,000,000	Horst Weiss	1311
	Fort de Breendonk memorial , ( Belgium ) Breendonk reception camp	25th	October 10, 1968	4,500,000	Horst Weiss	1410
	Figure group of the Copenhagen memorial , Ryvangen Holger Danske (resistance group)	25th	October 28, 1969	3,500,000	Manfred Gottschall and Joachim Rieß	1512
	Mother home , sculpture of the Soviet memorial in Berlin-Treptow Soviet Memorial (Treptower Park)	25th	2nd September 1970	3,500,000	Hans Detlefsen	1604
	Wiltz Memorial , Luxembourg National strike monument	25th	5th October 1971	4,000,000	Hans Detlefsen	1705
	Monument to the joint struggle of Polish soldiers and German anti-fascists, Berlin Volkspark Friedrichshain	25th	October 24, 1972	4,000,000	Burst	1798
	Memorial in the Langenstein-Zwieberge memorial Langenstein-Zwieberge concentration camp	25th	18th September 1973	4,000,000	Hans Detlefsen	1878
	Memorial in the Ardeatine Caves near Rome Massacre in the Ardeatine Caves	35	September 24, 1974	3,000,000	Hans Detlefsen	1981
	National monument commemorating the heroes of the Resistance at Châteaubriant , France 27 hostages shot	35	September 24, 1974	3,500,000	Hans Detlefsen	1982
	Figure by Fritz Cremer , memorial in Vienna Central cemetery Vienna	35	October 14, 1975	3,500,000	Lothar Grünewald	2093
	Group of figures in the Budapest Memorial	35	5th October 1976	4,500,000	Lothar Grünewald	2169
	Soviet memorial Berlin-Schönholz Soviet Memorial (Schönholzer Heide)	35	20th September 1977	3,500,000	Joachim Riess	2262
	Memorial of the GDR: O Germany pale mother in the Mauthausen memorial , Austria by Fritz Cremer O Germany pale mother ( Bertolt Brecht )	35	5th September 1978	3,500,000	Lothar Grünewald	2356
	Group of figures in the Mittelbau-Dora memorial near Nordhausen Dora concentration camp	35	August 28, 1979	3,500,000	Hans Detlefsen	2451
	Memorial in the Majdanek Memorial ( Poland ) Majdanek concentration camp	35	August 26, 1980	3,500,000	Joachim Riess	2538
	Memorial for the anti-fascist resistance fighters, Saßnitz Historical monuments in Sassnitz	35	September 8, 1981	3,500,000	Hans Detlefsen	2639
	Auschwitz - Birkenau memorial Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum	35	September 7, 1982	4,000,000	Hans Detlefsen	2735
	Monument " Mother Homeland " on Mamayev Hill near Volgograd Probably 30,000 dead in the battle for this hill	35	4th October 1983	4,000,000	Manfred Gottschall	2830
	Resistance fighters in the memorial in the Georg-Schumann-Bau of the TU Dresden Münchner Platz memorial in Dresden	35	September 18, 1984	4,000,000	Hans Detlefsen	2897
	Cenotaph in the Memorial of the Liberation on the Seelower Heights ( Brandenburg ) Seelower Heights Memorial	35	April 16, 1985	4,000,000	Hilmar Zill	2939
	25 years of Sachsenhausen memorial Group of figures in front of a stele in the memorial in Sachsenhausen concentration camp	35	September 23, 1986	4,000,000	Hans Detlefsen	3051
	Sculpture in the Budapest Memorial	35	September 8, 1987	3,500,000	Manfred Gottschall	3122
	Monument to the European resistance movement against fascism in Como , by Gianni Colombo	35	September 13, 1988	3,500,000	Hans Detlefsen	3196
	30 years of Buchenwald memorial and memorial Memorial on the Ettersberg near Weimar by Fritz Cremer	10	September 13, 1988	8,000,000	Hans Detlefsen	3197
	30 years of the Ravensbrück memorial Fritz Cremer : Ravensbrück group of mothers	35	5th September 1989	3,500,000	Joachim Riess	3274

literature

• Michel catalog Germany 1999/2000. Schwaneberger Verlag, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-87858-028-2 .
• LIPSIA color catalog GDR 1983. transpress VEB publishing house for traffic, Berlin, VLN 162-925 / 197/83, SV 9197.

See also

• List of memorials for the victims of National Socialism

Web links

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