GERMAN REICH

GERMAN REICH / DEUTSCHES REICH.

Annexion of Styria, Carinthia and Carniola.
Mount Triglav, in Carniola (now Slovenia).
Last stamp in a set of 4, issued on 29.09.1941.
Face value: 25 + 15 German reichsfennig.
Printing: Photogravure.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 809.
- Scott No. B197.
- StampWorld No. 798.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 795.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 733.

Triglav, with an elevation of 2,863.65 m (9,395.2 ft), is the highest mountain in Slovenia and the highest peak in the Julian Alps. It was also the highest peak in Yugoslavia before Slovenian independence in 1991. It is the centerpiece of Triglav National Park, Slovenia's only national park, and the preeminent symbol of the Slovenian nation.

In April 1941, following the attack of the Axis powers on Yugoslavia and the consequent total occupation of its territory, the German Reich applied the old principle of international law of debellatio and completely annexed the northern half of Slovenia, which became integrated in the Reichsgau of Carinthia (Kärnten, in German); the south of present-day Slovenia came under Italian jurisdiction. The occupation lasted until the collapse of Nazism in May 1945.