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and has over a hundred members spread over all continents.
In nearly 35 years 65 revues and 68 handbooks have been published. Several of our members have
been awarded high distinctions during national and international exhibitions.
The goal of the ArGe GG is the study of the postal history and its inevitable historic links with the
German occupation of Poland in the years 1939 to 1945. More than 65 years after the end of WWII,
many dark spots concerning postal traffic, still remain.
Through close work with other study groups (ArGe), (E.g. ArGe Field-Post, ArGe Poland, ArGe Censored
Mail, ArGe Fiscal stamps, ArGe machine cancels, etc), and through corresponding with collectors mainly,
also in Poland, we manage to complete more and more the mosaic of the postal history of the General
Government. The postal regulations of the Reich Post Ministry (RPM), the official gazettes from the RPM
as well as from the Deutsche Post Osten, the field-post and other official regulations, are of course of great
help in this endeavour.
postal rate periods, not only for standard mail, but for field-post, censored mail, official mail, P.O.W.
mail, interned personnel mail, camp mail, international mail, and the different forms used by the Deutsche
Post Osten.
Stamp collectors on the other hand concentrate on the sheet-features and characteristics, the perforation,
plate flaws, errors, freaks and oddities.
Publications of the ArGe and the benevolent support of experts as Mr Hans-Hermann Paetow (AIEP), Mr Detlef
Pfeiffer (BPP) and Mr Michael Schweizer BPP (German Association of Philatelic Experts), have made it possible
to track and fight the increasing number of forgeries on the market, and thus avert great damage to collectors.
President: Michael Schweizer
Vice-President: Gottfried Schoch
Treasurer: Manfred Teckert