Postal History of the Spanish Civil War and the Second Republic

Postal Stamps, Labels, Envelopes, Postcards, and whatever else that can give us an excellent opportunity to examine the conflict through contemporary items in the participant's daily lives. I am not a partisan of either side of the conflict, but just a curious neophyte.

Sunday, February 24, 2019

Business Must Go On

I don’t have much to say about this post card that I picked up a while ago-except to say, that I am somewhat shocked that in the midst of a conflict with the Nationalists whom of course were supported by the Germans there would be correspondence between the Nazi German capital and Republican Barcelona.
I think this is an inter library loan card mailed on March 25th, 1937 from Berlin (Bibliothek Der Sternwarte Berlin-Babelsberg) to the Academic Library of Science and Arts in Barcelona. The bibliothek was the Berlin Observatory’s library.

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