Poland 1942 – Nicolaus Copernicus
As with the Poland issue of 1940 showing the Copernicus memorial in Cracow, this
stamp was released while the country was under German occupation during World
War II. The words “Deutsches Reich Generalgouvernement” are engraved at the bottom but, unlike in 1940, there is no Nazi eagle. This
was the highest-value member of a set of five issued to mark the third
anniversary of Germany’s occupation of Poland; the other subjects were Veit Stoss, a German-born
sculptor who worked for some time in Poland; Hans Dürer, younger brother of Albrecht Dürer, an artist who also worked in Poland; Johann Schuch, an obscure landscape
gardener; and Joseph Elsner, a Polish composer. This same Copernicus design,
but coloured red, reappeared
the following year to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the astronomer’s birth.
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