Stamps series "2nd National Stamp Exhibition, Berlin"

At the special post office within the exhibition only one stamp could be purchased per admission ticket, and although the face value of this stamp is 1 Mark, these stamps were sold at the exhibition for 50pf. As from 1st April these stamps were also available from the philatelic counter at Berlin G.P.O. at normal face value. The exhibition was from 28th to 31st March 1940.

On 30th January 1937, Hitler commissioned the architect Albert Speer to give Berlin a new face, and bestowed on him the title "General Construction Inspector of Berlin". Part of this reconstruction consisted of four new ring roads to ease traffic in the city centre, and two new railway stations to replace the existing twelve stations. The first really representative building of the new Germany was the new Reich Chancellery, which was completed by Speer in only nine months.