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Originally Posted by finnbow
I have quite a collection of WWI, Depression era, and WWII German stamps that I collected when I lived there as a kid ('60-'64). As Rob mentions, I have numerous stamps overprinted with phenomenal denominations of hundreds of millions marks. I also have large numbers of the Hitler head profile stamps, both from within the German Reich as well as overprinted for use in conquered lands (Ukraine, for example).
I haven't had these out for a look in well over 10 years. I may need to take another peak. BTW, the town I lived in as a kid (Käfertal on the outskirts of Mannheim) still had all sorts of bombed out buildings and there numerous old pillboxes and bunkers in the farmers fields on the edge of town. We use to crawl through them, playing war. There were also a significant number of fighter planes stuck nose down in some of the fields that hadn't yet been removed throughout Germany and the Benelux countries.
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I can take a quick look through my Scott catalog and see if there is the possibility of some rare ones. Some printings of the occupation Brandenburg Gate stamps are pricey.
My Dutch friends tell me of planes surfacing in the polders, the water content of that ground is quite high. The turn over the dog tags and remains if the pilot was unable to eject.