This is a card sent in 1942 from Ruß/Russ (now Rusnė, Lithuania) to Recklinghausen in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Rusnė/Ruß is an old picturesque small town with a population of 2000 located on an island called Rusnė Island/Rusnės Sala in the delta formed by the Nemunas/Memel river. The postmark states "Ostpr." (Ostpreußen) to differentiate from another town also called Russ/Ruß in Alsace, France which was at that time, part of Germany.
This East-Prussian "RUSS" didn't become "RUSSIAN"... :-)
ReplyDeletehahaha... This joke would be difficult to understand without knowing Lithuanian history :)
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