- Document ID: 138770659
- Document Collection: 7-2-1-5_Briefe von Zwangsarbeitern und Zwangsarbeiterinnen
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I have looked into literature and according to Horst Landsmann, it should be a censorship stamp for ABP (Auslandsbriefprüfstelle) Paris. It seems to be special case, as it was not responsible for checking the post of forced labourers from Soviet Union
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I’ve found another card of this type:
Document ID: 138753370
It also has the „A.x.“ censorship stamp. Different sender, but same address/P.O. box (Postfach) number.
Maybe all postcards from the forced laborer camp in Saint-Malo, France went through the ABP Paris?
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Thanks! Yes, it does look this way. Exciting 
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Were these Ukrainians forcded by OT to work in St. Malo?
„[…] in June 1940 […] German forces occupied Saint-Malo and turned the resort into one of five Brittany ports Adolf Hitler designated as festungen, or fortresses, intended to thwart any Allied invasion. Beginning in July 1942, thousands of conscripts from forced-labor camps were detailed to Organisation Todt, the Nazi engineering and construction operation, and made to work night and day building concrete bastions, implanting them with heavy guns linked by telephone to coordinate enfilading fire.[…]“ (source)