Royal Mail has been accused of trying to airbrush the two world wars after postcards from the 1940s were banned for being offensive to Germans.The light-hearted cartoon images feature Hitler, Hermann Goering and The Kaiser as part of a special edition of collector's stamps to mark tongue-in-cheek postcard manufacturer Bamforth's 140th birthday.
But Bamforth's Managing Director (MD) has slammed the decision to ban seven out of ten images from the collection. He said: 'The official at the Royal Mail's offices in Edinburgh said: "You can't have this one either - it's anti-Germanic".
'I said "Of course, it's anti-Germanic. There was a bloody war on". Are we supposed to airbrush out two world wars as well?' Read More
