Blue 250 korunas postage stamp, with image of 'Siegfried Prag 1887', commemorating 130th birthday Richard Wagner, Bohemia, 1943
Between 16 March 1939 and 8 May 1945 the Third Reich issued over 100 stamps in the occupied territory of Bohemia and Moravia (the area of the modern Czech Republic). After Hitler's Birthday in April 1942 new stamps were issued with a large 'Deutsches Reich' inscription at the top and a small 'Bohmen und Mahren/Cechy a Morava' at the bottom, pointing to the country at this time passing from a sovereign Czech State to one of the states of Germany. In 1943 the Germans issued a series of stamps celebrating Richard Wagner's 130th Birthday (1813-1883). This stamp, in the series, commemorates a performance of the opera 'Siegfried' in 1887, after a big revival of Wagner's work in Prague's German Theatres with the arrival in Prague in 1885 of the zealous Wagner expert and advocate Angelo Newmann. This production may have been watched by the Czech composer, Antonin Dvorak, who, it is claimed, had a deep and lasting interest in Wagner's music. From a collection of German stamps bought in the UK in the early 1950s.
Size: 1608px × 1835px
Location: Third Reich, 1943 Richard Wagner Commemoration Stamp, Bohemia and Moravia (modern Czech Republic)
Photo credit: © robert harrison / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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