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1940 (Sep 14) Airmail envelope to H. Regeer, S.S. Beemsterdyk, Holland & Amerika Line, New York N.Y. bearing Queen Wilhelmina 3 x 15c tied Rotterdam cds & with Geoffnet /Obercommando der Wehrmacht / . . e . . ( Riemer E – 53) label tied by violet circular Gepruft /Eagle Swastika /Obercommando der Wehrmacht (Riemer E – 2a) hand stamp plus PC 90 Opened By /Examiner 5502 label & pencil manuscript “Detained in Liverpool” …….Regeer probably escaping from Nazi oppression would have been interned in an Alien Internment Camp probaby at Huyton … S.S. Beemsterdyk was mined on 26 January 1941 of the coast of Pembrokeshire.