Operation Cornflakes - S3E16
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- Stamps played a key role in WW2 Missions in 1945. Operation Cornflakes was set in motion by the OSS as they sought new ways to distribute black propaganda. Learn more about a Hitler stamp that I pull from the box and witness a mission take place as we explore Operation Cornflakes.
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Books shown in video:
'European Stamp Issues of the Second World War - Images of Triumph, Deceit and Despair' - David Parker 2015
www.amazon.com/European-Stamp...
'European Stamp Issues and the First World War - Fall of Empires, Rise of Nations' - David Parker 2018
www.amazon.com/European-Stamp...
The American Philatelist 1971 February. Volume 85. No 2 - 'Allied Forgeries of the Postage Stamps of Nazi Germany' - Herbert A. Friedman.
Link to PsyWarrior article:
www.psywarrior.com/Cornflakes2...
View the stamps on Snupps: www.snupps.com/Exploring_Stam...
#ww2 #philately #hitler #stampcollecting
“Remember, as collectors, we are custodians of history. We obtain and preserve artefacts, these little pieces of paper. We are preserving history, real history and a reminder of the past.”
Graham, an absolute 5 stars again! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
:) Thanks for the 5 stars!
I have heard a lot about you now made myself to listen your blog and truly amazing work and explanation, I will dm you in Instagram with few questions
Flawless editing, exciting story, educational, and engaging.
Glad you found it engaging and exciting :D Thanks for watching.
so true
I have a extensive collection of Germany from 1933 to 1949. This includes Third Reich, General Government (Occupied Poland), Bohemia and Moravia under German Occupation and finally Germany under Allied occupation. I have found this collection extremely interesting.
I am definitely looking into the books you mentioned. I am usually not that interested in WW history, but this episode really kept my attention.
Glad it was able to keep your attention :) The books are really interesting and helpful, I highly recommend them.
Graham: I've watched all of your programs, a number of them several times, but I think OPERATION CORNFLAKES may be your best and perhaps the most important. In this program you said that philately is "the custodian of history" and one could argue that no subject or topic more accurately and profoundly illustrates this idea better than the stamps of WW!!.You get Five Gold Stars from me. Congratulations Mr. Beck.
Thank you James, this means a lot! Learning about this operation and reading about the various stamps issued by participating countries really got me to appreciate how philately has an important role in preserving this history. Thank you for the 5 Gold Stars, and thank you for watching the videos. :D
Great video!!! I've been collecting stamps for over 39 years since the age of twelve. So your philately videos are always worth looking FORWARD to and looking INTO!! Keep up the great work!! :) :)
Thank you, glad that you enjoy the videos. Hearing that from an experienced collector of 39 years means a lot!! Thanks for watching :D
Laughed out LOUD when I saw the toy train derailed after being "destroyed" en route. Brilliant communication and enjoyable. Stamps are pieces of historical evidence...I enjoy my hobby for how we can bridge past and present together. Another great video....gratitude goes your way for creating these for us.
😅 Glad you enjoyed the train scene, as you say we can totally bridge past and present together through philately, it is a wonderful hobby. Thanks for watching!!
Being a bit of a WWII History buff I found this incredibly interesting.
Awesome! Glad you found it interesting Phil, thanks for watching :)
You've earned a new subscriber and possibly convinced me to start collecting stamps. Good work.
Welcome to the channel Reilly, thank you for the view and comment. I hope you do consider starting a small (or large) collection at some point, it’s a rewarding and exciting hobby 🙂
Best episode yet! I'm always excited to see the alert for a new Exploring Stamps video.
Glad you enjoyed it Captain Z! As always thanks for watching :)
That intro is so awe inspiring,showing all the World War 2 stamps is also very amazing to see. You could say unofficially "The Great Stamp War"
as well that haunting music with the stamp is haunting
To your point, you can definitely put together a collection full of WW2 stamps at war. Basically stamps against stamps, 'the great stamp war'
Well done indeed! You put a lot into this one and it comes through brilliantly. I think I learned even more from this video than any of your others. Thank you!
Thanks Phil! I learned a lot myself. Glad you enjoyed it :)
Your best video yet. If you want to find the "fake fakes" E-Bay is full of them - the genuine articles are much harder to find and are quite expensive. It's not an area I collect so I find it difficult to justify the expense. But I do collect Poland and Russia and there are many fascinating areas to collect in most countries directly involved in WWII. They're considered to be Back of Book for these areas, this is sort of connected to Cinderella stamps that you have talked about. For example the Polish government went in exile and produced many stamps from these areas that would be part of any good Poland collection. You also had stamps from areas that were invaded by other countries. If Germany invaded a certain area they would issue special German occupation stamps to be used in this area by the citizens or the occupying forces. Also the area being occupied might issue their own stamps or the Government in exile might issue them for the people to use and smuggle them in or use them abroad as an act of defiance. It's a fascinating collecting area especially if you collect a country that invaded or was invaded. Maybe you might want to do a video on "occupation stamps". By the way, this also applies to WWI. Again a great video, thanks!
That is a fascinating area to collect, I will have to look into the Polish exile stamps... I find all history surrounding the world wars particularly interesting. Thank you for sharing Joseph and as always thank you for watching 🙂
Started collecting stamps recently and bumped into your channel. You are doing incredibly great job by bringing so much value into stamp collection hobby. Thanks for your hard work and keep it up :)) Cheers from Japan
Thank you very much 😊. I am glad that you are enjoying the channel, thanks for watching in Japan!
Dude! Your research and video clips and micro-world-history-thru-stamps, process is priceless!
:) Thank you!
Oh! And thank you for the book recommendations. Didn't know about them!!
Absolutely, I highly recommend the books!
Another great video! Thank you for doing this despite the touchy subject for alot of people. This is one of my areas to collect.
That means a lot, thank you Todd. It is a fascinating area to collect!
Excellent video; you tackled a very tough and sensitive subject, and handled it in a very professional way. I admire your work.
Thank you that means a lot! Glad you enjoyed it and thank you for watching 🙂
Another awesome show and I had never heard of operation cornflakes before that was very interesting. I have many WWII stamps from Germany and the countries that they occupied along with US and other European countries. I will have to check out that book you were talking about. keep up the good work cant wait for the next one!!!
This was bloody good. I kept putting this episode off, didn't think it would be of interest. WOW, I was wrong. This is better then watching cable TV.
You tell your stories with such enthusiasm, I love it! Great video!
:D Thank you! And thank you for watching the channel!
Thanks for posting. I've learned alot from your videos. I also repost them to our stamp collecting group on facebook called STAMPS OF THE WORLD.
Wow! This was an amazing video! Thank you! Can you make more WW2 stamps history videos? I'm a WW2 stamps collector and your videos are great to understand specific events and operations such as operation cornflakes.
Thank you Samuel, I LOVE learning about WWII through stamps, so I certainly will consider additional videos, thanks for watching :)
A suggestion along Samuels idea, would be to look at stamps issued in occupied territories in Europe during WWII. Maybe focusing on overprinted stamps. I have a huge interest in overprints. Bavaria following WWI had competing governments that both posted distinict overprints with the name of their respective governments. Must have been a tremendously confusing time.
One of your best videos yet!
Thank you James!
Great episode. I appreciated the archival footage of the burning train destroyed by the USAAF P-38s! ("I love the smell of burning plastic in the morning" - Lt. Col. Kilgore
LOL!! this cracked me up. I had to pull some serious strings to get this classified footage of a plastic train bombing... not sure if Kilgore would prefer burnt plastic to napalm... Glad you enjoyed the episode, thanks for watching James!!
This video deserves way more views, absolutely incredible!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching Captain 😀
As a collector of German stamps I really enjoyed this very interesting and entertaining episode. I had seen pictures of these "death mask" stamps, but never knew the history behind them, so thank you.
You are very welcome Jeff, glad you enjoyed it. :)
Very entertaining - I love the history around a single stamp, issue and series.
"Philatelist are exposed to all aspects of history". True and some of us don't often realise it. And you are doing a great job of making philatelists and all others realise that fact. I have heard about operation cornflakes before, but never so informational and wonderful.
Thank you Imtiaz!! I appreciate the support 😃
Great production value!! Really interesting info
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you :D
Excellent presentation and so informative. Thank you for this channel.
You are very welcome James. Thank you for watching :)
I was given my grandparents stamp collection years ago and recently found a few of these stamps set aside not in the collection but wrapped up in a little pocket between some card. I will have to dig them out and have another look.
Interesting, maybe you now have some of the real fakes!! Fingers crossed :)
@@ExploringStamps well my 10yr old was rather impressed by your video. He is hoping. lol Im just trying to put the stamps in order by countries. We really enjoy your videos 👍
That’s excellent!! I was collecting when I was 10 and organized by country, I tried to keep it alphabetized by pages as best I could. 😅
Amazing episode!!
Another great video Graham. Truly a gem!
Thank you Alex, glad you enjoyed it. :)
This is amazing not only did I enjoy the historical aspect but also the presentation, loved the puns🤣
😃 Glad you enjoyed it Eddie! Thank you for watching
A truly outstanding episode on so many levels and of particular interest to me because my father flew 33 missions over Germany during WWII. This episode brought a dimension of WWII history that most were unaware of.....I will be checking on the recommended books and articles. Just wondering if you visited the Churchill museum and underground bunker while you were in London at any time?
I have visited the museum and bunker!! It is interesting to hear about your father flying all those WW2 missions, I find all aspects of the war and the people involved incredibly fascinating. Glad you enjoyed the video Gary, thanks as always for watching :)
Great video! I have many of those stamps and wondered about them.
Simply brilliant, thank you for this episode!
Thanks for watching Peter 🙂
This is still here in 2020? Great video. Countdown until someone's feelings are hurt and you tube does away with it.
You're making a great job! Thank you and Congratulations.
Thank you Enrico, glad you are enjoying the videos 🙂
So good! Great editing
Thank you Dan, and thanks for watching! :)
This video is a delicious breakfast even though I just watch it tonight. Always on top this Graham !!! Mike
Lol!! Thanks Mike :)
Informative as usual!!
Glad you found it interesting, thank you for watching :)
Thank you...For your Report n information. Cause i own a couples
Of WWll German Stamps....Every
Day We Learn Something New in
Life....
Deep history lesson and brilliant effects - you must have your own TV series!
I will have to audition for one, lol thanks for watching Pedro.
Fascinating story, energetically and imaginatively presented. Thank you for sharing your knowledge
Interesting educational and entertaining as usual. Thanks.
Thanks Laura, glad you found it interesting and I always appreciate your viewership :)
Ordered the WW1 book, thanks for the suggestion!
Great! It has loads of high quality color photographs showing various stamp issues and covers, you will enjoy it :)
Immense effort has gone into this video
Stamps are history books In themselves superb video wow wow wow !!!!
Another great video. Lovely
:-) Tricky idea by the Allies!
Again a film with very interesting historic information!
The look on Hitlers face in this stamp is as if a dead serious stranger wondered up to him, cornered him into a long random conversation accusing him of something super weird.
Hitlers facial rebottle says he felt it necessary to seriously deny everything categorically.
Operation Cornflakes is for Stamps collector and Operation Bernhard for banknotes collector:)
WOW fantastic, I've never heard of operation cornflakes until now!
Until I started researching this, I thought it was just a small operation where a few stamps were made... this really blew me away once I learned more.
extremely compelling and informative. thank you.
Can you make a video on how tk read the postmarks on the stamps and postal stationery
I look forward to creating a video about postmarks and discussing how to read them very soon. Thanks for watching and contributing Dhruv :)
How do you decide which stamps to remove, which ones to cut off, and which ones to keep the full envelope.
Excellent presentation. Ive never appreciated CTOs until I began collecting Niger Coast QV material. Oftimes remainders of an issue would be cancelled enmass and sold to philatelic dealers. These usually have a SOTN circular cancel and a date indicating late usage.
I have looked up the website and have also called no answers so far.. Is there anyway ypu could help me in finding out if my stamps are worth anything?
I had no idea about this operation. I have to read up more about it and Das Neue Deutschland, thank you!!
Yes definitely look into the OSS and 'DND'... I spent hours reading up about the effort, the membership card that was added to DND is something I wanted to discuss in this video but just didnt have time, you will find it interesting! Thanks for watching Markus!
"Without a physical address left to deliver the mail to, much of it was discarded. Another oversight was simply the fact that when people received mail from an unknown source they would usually destroy it, especially if the letters contained allied propaganda, either out of loyalty or fear of punishment."
An excerpt from the operation cornflakes wiki page.
Amazing love your videos
Great videoas usual, if only you could make them more often(ps. I know how demanding it is to make video of such quality)
Thank you :) I would love to make them more often! Glad you liked the video.
Simply amazing video!!! For WW2 and spy stamps collectors! Well done Graham
Wow thank you Alessio, and thank you for watching :D
Once more great job!!! Many thanks, Stefanos Athens, Greece
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching in Athens :D
Great video as always, how do you find the full cancelation marks from a date as it is something I want to start looking in to
myself.
Thank you Mark, I use very basic approaches to get the postmarks (sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t). Check out my video about postmarks and cancellations, towards the end I share my methods to getting it. 👍
I'm curious how you determined the town from just that postmark fragment. Did you have the whole piece to read the full mark, or is there some reference of all German cancellations of that era you compared it to?
KNWIII I usually download a list of municipalities or post offices and run the sequence of identified letters against it. Whatever name(s) consist of the letter sequence I then verify that a post office was around at the time. I can’t remember if there was any additional step I did with this particular one, but I show a few of these steps briefly in the video about postmarks and cancellations.
OUTstanding episode!
Such a horrific period in history must never be forgotten. We must remember and learn from the past.
I actually felt guilty about collecting these kinds of stamps. But it’s solely for the history of that time. Such a dark and terrible era which must never be repeated.
Thanks a lot for this video, I really like German stamps, from the pre-Empire States to nowdays they totally explain the complex history of this country. I totally agree with you on the role of philately in keeping history and also the bad of it. I can see it clearly also connected to fascism here in Italy, where stamps of that period really explain how was the propaganda at that time. Therefore, I strongly think that often stamps are even better than an history book, because they are really the physical prove that something happened.
I couldn't say it better than that... 'Often stamps are even better than a history book' Indeed they are! They are actual proof of ideas, sentiments, actions, beliefs, everything from a particular place and time. Whether it is good or bad, it is important to our history and that we preserve it. Thank you for sharing Stefano!
Thank you for the book. Just ordered the book.
You are very welcome, it is an excellent book!
Graham, I am looking to find these "Hitler's stamps" My stamp shop does Israel and Germany. I asked him if he had a "suite" of Hitler. He told me that they are very expansive. Do you know where I could get these stamps, but the cheaper ones? Thank you for your answer.
Hi David. I was able to buy the OSS fakes from a philatelist friend who was selling his three. I am not sure where to find them for purchase, I see some on eBay, but like mine I cannot tell if they are "Fake Fakes" :/ The regular Hitler stamps are all over eBay and other online dealers.
Graham, thanks for your answer. I appreciate it. Thanks a lot. I will look look for them when I have the time. I Right now I don't, but thanks for the answer. Until our next meet on youtube/
Great Video. Thanks!
Thank you 😊
Haha! I absolutely love your videos. When I decided to go through my stamps, I thought that maybe I could make a bit of money, but now I'm in love with the history and want to buy more. I only have 2 stamps with Hitler, "the red one in your left pile, and a red Deutsches Reich. I have a bunch of President Hlindenburg, in different colors.
Should I remove the stamp if it's still on the torn envelope ♥
I'd never heard of Operation Cornflakes before (yay philately!), but it triggered another random connection for me. Are you familiar with John Harvey Kellogg's (yup, the cereal magnate in Battle Creek, Michigan) strong ties to the eugenics movement of the early 20th century? Many commonalities with the purity Hitler was seeking. Makes me wonder if the naming of this operation had anything to do with helping salvage Kellogg's brand reputation...
Great video! I'm new to stamp collecting, who do you like more for buying stamps online. Mystic stamps or eBay?
Thank you, glad you like the video! I have purchased from both, but I tend to mainly get stamps from eBay as I find a variety of good deals from time to time. I also purchase from hipstamp and stamps.org
If the exposed skull stamps were printed by the OSS, but with intended use in Germany, would you store them under American or German stamps in a collection?
Ah! That’s a really tough question . 😅
I vote Germany.
where did you sell the skull stamp?
I found your site a few months ago and have been watching all your previous videos. I came across this one which I found very interesting as I have a Hitler cornflake stamp, probably a fake of a fake. But what I wanted to ask you is whether you have ever come across any Saxony Blackings. These were the Hitler definitives with his head obliterated by for use in the Soviet Zone immediately after the end of WW2.
Graham, very interesting episode. Thanks a lot. David
Thanks for watching David, glad you found it interesting :)
From the title I thought it would be about stamps inside cereal boxes, but this was amazing ! The black propaganda and the bombers and bags of conterfeit mail!
Nice story and information, thank you.
You are very welcome, thank you for watching Basheer!
This doesn't always detract from value as the printings were very limited to begin with. Values tend to mimic the M stamp. Some have the OG or remnants thereof.
Very professional video
Thank you Glenn 🙂
Awesome stuff! Can you do an episode on Latvian stamps?
Would love to, I know of a couple fascinating stories of Latvia's stamp history that I would love to explore. Thanks for watching :)
@@ExploringStamps Awesome! Would absolutely love an episode about my homeland. Keep up the good work!
Well presented Graham, I found the propaganda discussion particularly interesting!
Thank you Erica! I had no idea about the 3 types of propaganda until I began researching this.
Awesome :-)
Thank you 😊
When I started collecting in 1976, I was given a cigar box of Nazi and Berlin stamps. I thought they were cool, but my interest was in space and the bicentennial stamps. When I returned to stamp collecting I just crudely sorted them and placed them in glassines. Maybe they are worth getting out and exploring. Thanks for another great episode.
I think they are definitely worth taking another look at and exploring, you never know what interesting aspect to the war you may come across. Thank you for watching as always Robert :D
I just purchased a bunch of those stamps for history purpose who knows if they are real or fake, but I find them fascinating and I also found your video outstanding.
It could be interesting, what happened to those Hitler Stamps directly after the end of the war.
They where used the first time, but overprinted, either with black Inc or with the word 'Verderber', I think it is spoiler in English.
Another stamp,
Another topic about history!
:) I'm learning so much!
Outstanding history lesson.
Thank you 😊
In the Pacific theater, it was a flight of P-38s which ambushed and shot down the plane carrying Admiral Yamamoto.
Thank you Stephen, your comment sent me on a 25 minute reading session learning about Admiral Yamamoto and his career, final flight, the P-38 mission, his death...etc From what I understand, the P-38s were mainly used in the Pacific as they were built for their long range. Very interesting!
@@ExploringStamps
I appreciate the Thank you. There is also a very good documentary about the ambush of Yamamoto on CZcams. I am not sure of the exact title, but I'm sure a search request would be able to find it and others. And you're correct, the long range capability is definitely why they were used.
Another interesting aspect of this story is the fact that the Americans had broken the Japanese code, and thus knew the date and time Yamamoto would be traveling on an inspection tour. It was decided that it was worth the effort to go after him, even if that meant the possibility of Japan realizing that their code had been broken. Obviously the risk was worth taking, since they did shoot down Yamamoto, and the Japanese were non the wiser.
Funny, in Baa Baa Blacksheep, supposedly about the Pacific Theatre, it was Mustang that shot him down. Thanks for the correction.
@@barrydrees3617 Thanks for the "Thanks", Barry. The Mustang in its own right was perhaps the best fighter in the war, and undoubtedly saved hundreds, probably thousands, of lives protecting bomber crews. A lot is owed to them.
There is lots of stamps which are very interesting from GG occupied territories- they very important.
Very interesting. I wondered about those "fake" Hitler stamps.
Those look like a pair of vintage Sears binoculars!
I hope nobody got hurt in that train crash. Every stamp tells a story.
Every stamp does indeed tell a story!... and I think all the plastic train people made it out okay.
BRILLIANT. Really well done and SO incredibly informative.
Just two minor comments on this video:
First, you give credit that the Russians were advancing from the east on Germany, but you do not give credit to the US who were bogged down and fighting in the Ardennes. It was the US fighting in the Ardennes not the Allies.
Secondly, the "OSS" crest (spear in oval) you show while talking about the OSS is actually the US military crest for the U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM), not an OSS or CIA crest.
One should not believe they are the center of their universe. Stamps are very interesting to collect because they have a lot of information in a small file.😉
Who charges a royalty on their own stamp?
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