Real photo postcard of the Rathausplatz in St. Pölten, Lower Austria, seen through a stone archway — the baroque plague column and the twin-towered Franciscan church rising at the center of the square, automobiles and pedestrians along the edges. The caption names it the "Adolf Hitler Platz," the designation given to the square after Austria's annexation into the German Reich in March 1938 (the Anschluss), when the Nazis renamed the main squares of major Austrian cities; St. Pölten was simultaneously elevated to capital of the newly renamed Niederdonau (Lower Danube) region. The square reverted to Rathausplatz in 1945. This card was posted from Böheimkirchen during the war, addressed to a soldier named Leopold at a military unit in Vienna — a family member or friend keeping in touch across the short distance that had become, in wartime, a different world.

• Caption: St. Pölten, N.D. Ausblick auf den Adolf Hitler Platz
• Postmark: Böheimkirchen, February 12 (c.1941)
• Status: Posted