Wir sind frei!

Wir sind frei! with a swastika was overprinted on Czech stamps by formerly Czech towns to commemorate the annexation of the Sudetenland to Germany on 1 October 1938. There are genuine and bogus overprints, with the Michel catalog reporting genuine overprints for Asch, Karlsbad, Konstantinsbad, Niklasdorf, Reichenberg-Maffersdorf, and Rumberg. They were replaced with German stamps on 19 October.



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