Lot
1410 
1938, 20¢ Presidential, used with 10¢ Prexie (815), tied by "Baltimore Md. Jun 24, 1942" duplex on legal-size airmail cover to Jewish Internee in Vichy French Detention Center in France at the 30¢ per ½ oz. airmail rate, censor tape at left, red crayon "P.S.A." marking indicated that addressee could not be found, "Retour A L'Envoyear" handstamp and returned to sender, Very Fine. Scott No. 825 Estimate $150 - 200.
Vichy French Detention Centers were existing camps that were indiscriminately filled with German anti-Nazis (Communists, German Jews, etc) in 1939. Following the 1940 defeat, and the 10 July 1940 vote of full powers installing the Vichy regime, these camps were filled with Jews, first with foreign Jews, then indifferently with foreign and French Jews. The Vichy government would progressively hand them up to the Gestapo, and they would all transit via the Drancy internment camp, which was the last stop before concentration camps in the Third Reich and in Eastern Europe and the extermination camps.
Realized: $130