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Postcard Berlin Kaiser Wilhelm Church Ruins Chrome 1958 US Army Postmark
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Chrome · 1958

Postcard Berlin Kaiser Wilhelm Church Ruins Chrome 1958 US Army Postmark

Berlin, Germany (West Berlin)1958ChromeFair-Good

The bombed-out spire of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church rises against a vivid Cold War–era Berlin sky — its shattered neo-Romanesque tower deliberately preserved as a war memorial amid the busy traffic of the Tauentzienstraße, neon shop signs and mid-1950s automobiles streaming past on both sides. This chrome-era card, postmarked through the U.S. Army Postal Service on May 12, 1958 (APO 742), was sent by someone named Mila to a William at 880 N.E. 113th Street, Miami 38, Florida — written in Czech or Slovak, the message references friends, greetings from Berlin, and mentions the sender is unable to visit someone on a particular street. The 7-cent U.S. Air Mail stamp and the U.S. Army postmark together speak to the thousands of American military personnel and their families stationed in occupied West Berlin during the tense early Cold War years, sending news home across the Atlantic.

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PC-02114 · Hans Andres Verlag, Berlin
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