Lot 1771
German Area, 1945-1947 Correspondence, 13 early postwar covers from West Germany to Istanbul, all franked with Numeral or A.M.G. definitives (two with mixed-issues usages), good variety of censor tapes and markings, all sent to Alexander Rustow (1885-1963), one of about 1,000 German intellectuals (mostly Jewish) who emigrated to Turkey in the early 1930s at the invitation of the recently formed Turkish Republic to help modernize the fledgling nation's universities, health care and legal systems, by doing so, many of these individuals were saved from the Holocaust, Rustow returned to Germany in 1947, where he was instrumental in shaping the economy of West Germany, generally Fine.
Estimate $250-300.
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