{"id":223,"date":"2016-01-23T20:31:20","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T01:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/?page_id=223"},"modified":"2016-02-08T13:18:08","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T18:18:08","slug":"politics-1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/exhibit\/politics\/politics-1\/","title":{"rendered":"..."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Regimes can change more quickly than stamps.<\/strong> After World War I, the new Republic of German-Austria (1918-1919), overprinted its name on the stamps of the former Austro-Hungarian empire. Its successor, the Republic of Austria (1919-1934) developed a series of Art Nouveau-style stamps. After the forced incorporation of Austria into Nazi Germany in 1938, Austria used the stamps of the Third Reich. After the war, the occupying Allies overprinted <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">these German <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reich stamps to obliterate the inscription <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cDeutsches Reich\u201d and obscure the image of Hitler. In November of 1945, the Second Republic of Austria issued a set of new post-war stamp designs featuring bucolic sites across the nation.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_367\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-367\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx019md.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-367\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx019md-259x300.jpg\" alt=\"StampEx019md\" width=\"635\" height=\"1335\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-367\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Republic of German-Austria<\/strong>, 1918 \u00a0 | \u00a0 Overprinted postage stamp \u00a0 | \u00a0 <em>George S. Champlin Memorial Stamp Collection<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_368\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-368\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx020md.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-368\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx020md-256x300.jpg\" alt=\"StampEx020md\" width=\"635\" height=\"1485\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-368\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>First Republic of Austria<\/strong>, 1922 \u00a0 | \u00a0 <em>George S. Champlin Memorial Stamp Collection<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_369\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-369\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx021_2md.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-369\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx021_2md-254x300.jpg\" alt=\"StampEx021_2md\" width=\"635\" height=\"1442\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-369\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>German Reich<\/strong>, 1945 \u00a0 | \u00a0 Variation of overprinted occupation issues \u00a0 | \u00a0 <em>Robert T. Galkin Collection<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_370\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-370\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx022_1md.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-370\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx022_1md-253x300.jpg\" alt=\"StampEx022_1md\" width=\"635\" height=\"1359\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-370\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>German Reich<\/strong>, 1945 \u00a0 | \u00a0 Variation of overprinted occupation issues \u00a0 | \u00a0 <em>Robert T. Galkin Collection<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_371\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-371\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx023_1md.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-371\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx023_1md-244x300.jpg\" alt=\"StampEx023_1md\" width=\"635\" height=\"1366\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-371\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Second Republic of Austria<\/strong>, 1945 \u00a0 | \u00a0 Design\u00a0from the first national issue \u00a0 | \u00a0 <em>Robert T. Galkin Collection<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_366\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-366\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx023_2md.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-366\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx023_2md-250x300.jpg\" alt=\"StampEx023_2md\" width=\"635\" height=\"787\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-366\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Second Republic of Austria<\/strong>, 1945 \u00a0 | \u00a0 Design\u00a0from the first national issue \u00a0 | \u00a0 <em>Robert T. Galkin Collection<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regimes can change more quickly than stamps. After World War I, the new Republic of German-Austria (1918-1919), overprinted its name on the stamps of the former Austro-Hungarian empire. Its successor, the Republic of Austria (1919-1934) developed a series of Art Nouveau-style stamps. After the forced incorporation of Austria into Nazi Germany in 1938, Austria used <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/exhibit\/politics\/politics-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  &#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":52,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-223","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/223\/revisions\/1015"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}