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Figure 4. This cover with a cachet memorializing the meeting on the Elbe is canceled and dated the day after the meeting between Soviet and American troops actually occurred. telically contrived cover canceled April 26, and later embellished with a cachet commemorating the event and franked with a U.S. 3-cent Win the War stamp, Scott 905. The cover and commemoration on the cachet are dated April 26, 1945, one day after the event actually took place. Nevertheless, the event gradually faded from memory as postwar relations worsened and smiles faded between the two former Allies. The Soviets and their East German client state frequently commemorated the event for propaganda purposes, especially with philatelically inspired items such as the 1947 souvenir card shown in Figure 5. Figure 5. This 1947 3-mark Soviet Zone semipostal souvenir card marks the second anniversary of the meeting of Soviet and Western Allies on the Elbe River. Most money from sales of these cards went to fund postwar construction and resettlement aid. 20 AMERICAN PHILATELIST / JANUARY <strong>2019</strong>
The card contains three 1946 Numeral definitives from the first Allied joint issue; the 10-pfennig chocolate, 15pf light yellow green, and 45pfennig bright red, Scott 537, 541 and 550, respectively. Until 1948, these stamps were valid in the American, British, French and Soviet Occupation Zones. Torgau was in the Soviet Occupation Zone in Saxony, which was to become the German Democratic Republic. The 25 April 1947 commemorative cancel reads “TAG DER VEREINI- GUNG DER ALLIERTEN ARMEE” (Day of the Meeting of the Allied Armies). The card was sold for 3 marks, with 2mk30pf from each card going toward reconstruction and refugee assistance. Ten years after the historic meeting, Polowsky, along with nine other veterans of the 69th Infantry Division, went to Moscow for a reunion between American and Soviet soldiers who met up on the Elbe. The Figure 1 postcard was mailed by Polowsky during the reunion, which was held on May 9, 1955, in conjunction with a Soviet celebration of victory over Germany. The card was sent by airmail and is franked with a Soviet 1-ruble Spasski Tower definitive of 1948, Scott 1260, and a 25-kopek Aviator regular issue of 1949 from the Workers and Arms series, Scott 1345. The stamps pay the proper 1.25-ruble airmail postcard rate to the U.S. in effect from July 1953 to September 1, 1957. There is a magenta Moscow cancel dated 13/5/55 and a black Cyrillic auxiliary marking for foreign mail that translates as “International.” The card is also stamped with a private May 18 receipt marking. The message reads: Moscow May 12 th Dear Senator Johnson: Reunion with Soviet Elbe veterans was great success. Kindest Regards Joseph Polowsky Joe Polowsky was an idealist; he believed in the lasting nature of the good will expressed by both sides as they exchanged hugs and souvenirs on the banks of the Elbe on that clear spring day in 1945. Disgusted with the carnage they witnessed during the war, American and Soviet soldiers pledged an oath to do all they could to prevent a future war. Following his discharge from the army in 1946, Polowsky became a peace activist and worked diligently to uphold the promises made by the bright-eyed Allied troops who met up on the Elbe. Polowsky took the oath to heart. Every year he faithfully commemorated the anniversary of the Elbe meeting by holding a vigil on the Michigan Avenue Bridge in Chicago, much to the chagrin and embarrassment of some of his family members. He also traveled to the United Nations, and made several trips to the Soviet Union. He even met Soviet Prime Minister during Nikita Khrushchev’s 1959 visit to the United States. Polowsky later made another visit to the Soviet Union where he met Khrushchev yet a second time. Later he made trips to East Germany and met with that country’s leader, Walter Ulbricht. This was the height of the Cold War, so regardless of good intentions, threats of “the Red Menace” abounded and anti-Soviet feelings prevailed. Any peace activist who travelled to Russia was branded as a pawn of the Soviet Union. Traveling behind the Iron Curtain was not only difficult, but also dangerous; for an average American like Polowsky $ $ Scott 3188 Confederate StampS and poStal HiStory $ patriCia a. Kaufmann 10194 n. old State road • linColn, de 19960 Call: 302-422-2656 • fax: 302-424-1990 $ triSHKauf@ComCaSt.net $ profeSSional pHilateliSt SinCe 1973 life member: CSa, apS, aprl, uSpCS member: aSda, CCny, rpSl extenSive retail StoCK online $ www.trishkaufmann.com $ $ JANUARY <strong>2019</strong> / AMERICAN PHILATELIST 21
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