PARIS OFFICE (X)

OKW Transit Handstamp

India to Switzerland

Red Cross cover from SRINAGAR (Kashmir) to Geneva passed through Paris and received the German red circular A.x. handstamp.

A = Auslandsprufstelle - Foreign Censor Station

Also Indian OPENED BY EXAMINER censor label tied by 'DHC/454' handstamp on front and additional Indian lozange handstamp on reverse.

Airmail etiquette has been oblitereted by teo red bars indicating this travelled by surface even thought airmail rate had been paid.

Dated 12 November 1943.

BORDEAUX OFFICE (Y)

OKW Transit Handstamp

This is the only listed German TRANSIT handstamp of the Bordeaux Office used on a postcard from Amiens, France to Barcelona, Spain

Dated 13 January 1943.

NANCY OFFICE (N)

OKW Transit Handstamp

This is one of the scarcer censor office using the code "n" for identification. Reimer only listed 3 handstamps for this office.

Here is the only listed RSHA handstamp used on a Red Cross Message form.

Note the blue swipe of an invisible ink test with another test swipe to the left: a beige colouration.

Used Jaunary 1944.

Festung Lorient

This censor handstamp from Festung (Fortress) Lorient may be considered the last examining stamp of the war.

These censor handstamps always seem to be quite clean and it is questionable if they ever were actually forwarded.

Dated 29 Apr 1945