Creating the 'New Europe' through Postal Services Setting Postal Standards during World War II

• Main Author: Proschmann, Sabrina (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Baden-Baden Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG 2022
• Series: Historische Dimensionen Europäischer Integration Band 33
• Subjects: HB, 1QFE; EPTU, European Postal and Telecommunications Union, European Postal Congress, Post, Reichspost, Telekommunikation, Zweiter Weltkrieg, Collaboration/Cooperation, Infrastructures, Second World War, Europe, Postal Services, New Europe
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This thesis analyses the European Postal and Telecommunications Union, founded in Vienna in October 1942 under the leadership of the Axis powers. Both technocratic internationalism and the propaganda term 'New Europe' found points of contact there. The German postal administration authorit...