This is a WWI German field post (Feldpost) card of Landwarowo (now Lentvaris, Lithuania) railway station sent in 1917 to Ritheim (now spelled Rietheim), Germany. There is also a censorship cachet of Mülhausen (now Mulhouse, France).
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Destination: RIXHEIM Alsace / im Elsass !
ReplyDeleteGreat blog !
Thank you so much!! There is indeed "/Els" on the bottom right on the card.
DeleteThis place became completely Lithuanian only in 1940, because between 1920 and 1939 it was under Poland.
ReplyDeleteI wrote about the change of the borders of Lithuania in this article , explaining that in the period 1939-1945 Lithuania became 1/5 larger, firstly thanks to Berlin and lately thanks to Moscow.
Yes, but the territory regained in 1940 was completely Lithuanian only for a very short time. Retaken by Soviet in 1941 then again taken by Germany in the same year. Moscow retakes it in 1944 and it wasn't completely Lithuanian until 1991. So I wouldn't say thanks Moscow.. nor Berlin.
ReplyDeleteI said "firstly thanks to Berlin" because in the first segment of World War II Lithuania was under the sphere of influence of Germany, as clearly written in the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, in the article 1 of Secret Additional Protocol.
ReplyDeleteLook at here the map and read here the text .
This difference, between the situation of Lithuania and Latvia/Estonia in the beginning of the war (look at here what happened instead at the eastern borders of Latvia and Estonia), also determined some ethnical damages that are continuing today too: in Estonia and Latvia had been sent a lot of Russians (who today are about 1 third of total populations), while Lithuania remained somehow safe from Russification in the Soviet age.
Yes! I agree with you! Lithuania escaped a major Russification.
ReplyDeleteThank You for Your comment in Estonianbloggers. Just to answer Your question, I am not a philatelist. I am just a lover of History and I think that envelopes and stamps - beyond of old newspapers, monuments and books - are the best witnesses of events.
ReplyDeleteYour marvellous blog is truly attractive. It is linked from my most popular blog here, down in the right column, among "Sõbrad / Amici / Friends" .
Among the things I have issued, look at the borderpoints of Lithuania here .
Besides, here Estonian Soviet stationery and here Estonian and German stamps + Russian postmark in Tallinn in 1918 .
Give a look also at http://estonianbloggers.blogspot.it/search/label/Arco%20Geodetico
and at the collections of all Estonian stamps ("Francobolli" or "Postmargid") in the links in the left, year after year from 1991 onwards.
All the best!