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LastDodo number
9792291
Area
Picture stamps
Title
Duits Nieuw Guinea
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Perforation
Theme
Year
1921
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In 1921, Dr. Heinrich Schnee (the former governor of German East Africa), founded the Reichkolonialbund, an organization dedicated to pursuing the recovery of the colonial empire that Germany had lost as a result of the Treaty of Versailles. as part of the campaign, the organization issued propanda labels for the following lost colonies: Marshall Islands, Samoa, Mariana Islands, Togo, Kiaochow, German New Guinea (pictured above), Caroline Islands, Cameroon, German Southwest Africa and German East Africa.

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