COVER N. 584 - FRANCE 

Postmark:  1945 - 2025 Libération des Camps 1er jour 38 Fontaine La Poste 25.04.2025

Posted on  the  25th April; Received on the 8th May 2025

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Fitting that a cover like this one should knock on my door on VE day in Europe, after having been mailed on the 25th April (ANZAC day; Anniversario della liberazione in Italy and Dia da Liberdade, in my own country).

Particularly fitting, now that fascism 2.0 is slowly spreading like an ink blotch on wet paper.... 

Particularly fitting, now that a huge Camp de Mort is being kept and enforced live on TV, under the eyes of the world, to the total indifference of the same world.... children, women, men, young, old...no need for gas chambers here.... there are means just as effective and just as or even more cruel, for they prolong the suffering of the condemned, whose only sin is having been born: bombing; deprivation... of shelter, food, water, medical supplies....

Particularly fitting when terrorism is fought with terrorism!

Particularly fitting when unjustified aggression and invasion is again dotting fields of Europe not with poppies but with rows of white crosses...

Particularly fitting when Universities are persecuted, books are once again censored, Science is questioned...

Un grand Merci, Eric. Lest we forget!

In July 1944, Soviet troops found and liberated the first of the many Death Camps that the Nazi regime had installed throughout occupied Europe: Majdanek, in Poland.

It would take the allies almost one year to liberate all the Camps of Infamy, the last, on the 8th May 1945, would be Teresienstadt, in Czecoslovakia, famous for the "rich cultural life" prisoners had access to and participated in, as a Nazi cover up for the day to day atrocities and the appalling living conditions they had to endure.

Celebrating the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Fields of Death, les Camps de Mort, La Poste issued on 25APR2025 the stamp on the cover, illustrated with a self-explanatory image of a fence and the legend "1945 Libération des Camps 2025".

Lest we Forget!