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The Postcard

An Oilette Series postcard that was published by Raphael Tuck & Sons, Art Publishers to Their Majesties the King and Queen. The artwork was by HOS.

The card was posted in Cromer using a ½d. stamp on Friday the 20th. September 1907. There is another version of this card on the photostream that was posted in Torquay on the 9th. October 1908; to see it, please search for the tag 34FSH35

The card was sent to:

Master Kenneth Hardie
c/o Mrs. Hindley,
Sightcliffe,
Shepherds Hill,
Highgate,
London N.

The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:

"Do ya see these
little people fishing
in the sea?
I am so glad your
cough is better.
Love from Mother."

Nicolaus von Below

So what else happened on the day that Kenneth's mother posted the card?

Well, the 20th. September 1907 marked the birth of Nicolaus von Below.

Georg Ludwig Heinrich Nicolaus von Below was an officer in the German Luftwaffe, and an adjutant to Adolf Hitler.

-- Nicolaus von Below - the Early Years

Below was born on the estate of Jargelin near Anklam, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire. He was a member of the German aristocracy.

He trained as a pilot in 1929 at the Deutsche Verkehrsfliegerschule (DVS—German Air Transport School).

From 1929 to 1933 he served with the Reichsheer 12th. Infantry Regiment. Below then joined the German Air Force, and served with Jagdgeschwader 132 "Richthofen."

Below was awarded a Pilot/Observer Badge in Gold with Diamonds and a Wound Badge.

-- Below and Adolf Hitler

Below became Adolf Hitler's Air Force (Luftwaffe) military adjutant in 1937. Below's task was to be the link between Hitler and the air force leadership.

Hitler generally disliked and was suspicious of soldiers with aristocratic backgrounds. This was particularly true as the tide of World War II turned against Germany. However Below, with the rank of colonel, was one of the few members of Hitler's entourage to continually serve in a close capacity for so many years.

During the time between Christmas and the New Year of 1944, Hitler told Below:

"I know the war is lost, the
enemy's superiority is far
too great."

However Hitler, still dwelling on the 20th. July plot to kill him, placed the blame on traitors. He told Below:

"We will never surrender, we
may go down, but we will take
a world with us."

-- Below in Berlin in 1945

Adolf Hitler, presiding over a rapidly disintegrating Third Reich, retreated to his Führerbunker in Berlin on the 16th. January 1945. As his long serving Luftwaffe adjutant, Below traveled with Hitler back to Berlin.

Early on, Hitler continued to utilize the undamaged wing of the Reich Chancellery, where he held afternoon military conferences in his large study. However, that practice ended, and all military briefing conferences were moved down into the Führerbunker.

By April 1945, it was clear to the German military leadership and some Nazi Party leaders that the Battle for Berlin would be the final battle of the war.

On the 12th. April 1945, Below was a guest of Albert Speer to see the last performance of the Berlin Philharmonic before the city was captured by the Red Army. He later wrote:

"The concert took us
back to another world."

On the 15th. April 1945, Eva Braun was moved into the room next to the room which Hitler occupied in the Führerbunker. Below wrote the following of her:

"She was charming and obliging,
and showed no weakness right
up to the last moment."

By the 27th. April, Below was part of a very small group which were present for the military briefings. General Krebs was the only senior military officer still present, and Reich propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, who had moved into the bunker complex with his family, was also now present.

On the 29th. April, after the wedding of Hitler and Braun, Below was a witness to the last will and testament of Adolf Hitler. He did not sign the Political Testament, but added his signature to the Private Testament of the document.

Thereafter, Below asked Hitler if he could leave the Führerbunker and attempt to make it out of Berlin to the west. Hitler granted him permission to leave.

On the 30th. April, Below left Berlin carrying a letter from Hitler to Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel explaining the recent events of betrayal and extolling the sacrifices of the German people.

-- Below After WWII

Below was arrested by the British in 1946 and held until 1948. After the war, Below wrote a memoir of his experiences as an adjutant to Hitler from 1937 to 1945, 'Als Hitlers Adjutant 1937 –45' (1980), subsequently translated as 'At Hitler's Side' (2001).

Below died at the age of 75 on the 24th. July 1983 in Detmold, West Germany.

The particular color of the ice made me think of giant mint cough drops. Very strong ones.

Medical infographic of cold and flu symptoms illustration

Wir haben dieses Jahr Hustensaft statt Granatäpfel und Melonen.
Das Wetter ist auch extra greislig.
Das wird nix dolles.
Aber wir wünschen allen Shabe Yalda Mobarak!

Medicamentos de outros tempos | medicines from other times | médicaments d'autrefois |

In:
Gazeta dos Caminhos de Ferro 1954, N.º 1606

Magazine link:
hemerotecadigital.cm-lisboa.pt/OBRAS/GazetaCF/GazetaCF_VI...

Page link:
hemerotecadigital.cm-lisboa.pt/OBRAS/GazetaCF/1954/N1606/...

Edited in Prisma app with Color

It’s a fun picture of a post in the Market Square in Hitchin. In the background and man is just exhaling his vape into the Hitchin air. Cough! Cough!

A sneezing Soraya.
In Mill Acre Paddock at Staple Fitzpaine, Taunton Deane in Somerset.

I pulled this jew's harp out of a drawer and decided to try to play it. I managed to inhale a speck of something off it and spent the next 10 minutes coughing.