GERMAN SOUTH WEST AFRICA

German South West Africa was a German colony that issued German stamps with an overprint until they could issue their own. In 1920 the League of Nations gave the colony to the Union of South Africa. An example of a German South West Africa overprint and stamp is as follows:

Deutsch-Sudwest-Afrika
Or
Deutsch-Sudwestafrika
(Overprinted stamps of Germany.)
DEUTSCH-SUDWESTAFRIKA

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