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

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 authority used the...

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Main Author Proschmann, Sabrina
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Baden-Baden Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG 01.12.2022
SeriesHistorische Dimensionen Europäischer Integration
Subjects
Collaboration/Cooperation
EPTU
Europe
European Postal and Telecommunications Union
European Postal Congress
HB, 1QFE
Infrastructures
New Europe
Post
Postal Services
Reichspost
Second World War
Telekommunikation
Zweiter Weltkrieg
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Summary: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 authority used the union to extend Germany’s domestic postal system to intra-European postal services and to ensure German supremacy in the new postal Europe. After the war, a respective regional postal organisation was founded in both the Eastern and Western European blocs in the late 1950s. The content of the standardisation envisaged through this measure did not differ much in both blocs, but the way in which the standardisation was carried out did.
ISBN:9783748936626
3748936621
DOI:10.5771/9783748936626