freedom - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 1961 - 1.50 Shilling

The brand image shows a sacrificial bowl with rising flames. Below the shell is a chain whose middle link is blown up. In a speech to the Republic celebration on 12 November 1929 Anton Wildgans described the Austrian man and his fate. Among other things, he said: "In these heartlands, which alone form today's Austria, the streets crossed each other from the rising to the downfall, from noon to midnight, when the legions' ore step was heard on them, as well as the battle songs of the Teutons. Huns, Avars, and Turks had landed on them, pounding on the bastion of the West with savage, murderous weapons, and again and again, on the blood-soaked ground where these roads intersected each other, not just his own fate but also here the dice fell over the fate of the entire world part down to our days, until the Carpathian fights of the World War, in which Austria, already devastated, pouring out of a thousand wounds, did its duty for the last time For centuries, the Austrian has become accustomed to the immediate experience of very large ones History, whose bloody bill he has countless times paid ... "These words probably best describe the symbolic meaning of this special postage stamp, which was dedicated to the memory of all Austrians who had spent their lives for the freedom of Austria.