Purple 60 korunas postage stamp, image 'Meistersinger Prag 1871', 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). After the 1871 production of 'Die Meistersinger' (illustrated here) there came a long break for Wagner's music in Prague, until a big revival in Prague's German Theatres with the arrival in 1885 of the zealous Wagner expert and advocate Angelo Newmann. From a collection of German stamps bought in the UK in the early 1950s.
Size: 1245px × 1420px
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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