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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