D5XF 1948 Germany

A nicely designed card but obviously an unlicensed operator; a genuine D5 would have been French Occupation Forces, but this is an ordinary German. New callsign indicated at bottom right, but unfortunately has been torn off.

German Amateur radio history (12)
by Leo H. Jung, DH4IAB
1945-1947 Only winners will operate
The unconditional surrender of 7 and 9 May, 1945,signed in Reims (France) and Berlin Karlhorst, marked the end of the German Reich. Even before the war, in 1943 in Tehran (Iran) and at Yalta in February 1945 (Soviet Union) the heads of state of USA, USSR and Britain, decided to split up Germany in allied occupation zones (details and exact borders at the Potsdam Conference, July-August 1945) each one with it’s own telecommunications .
Among the western occupation troops there were many American, British, and French radio amateurs and soon they were issued licence permits. They took Germany’s D as prefix and operated from 1946 until 1. 1. 1949, when, according to the Conference of Atlantic City, D was replaced by DL. Amateur radio was not permitted for members of the Red Army in the Soviet zone. The Allied occupation callsign for military were.
D2AA et seq. British occupation forces,
D4AAA et seq. American occupation forces (three Characters in the suffix)
and D5AA et seq. French Occupation forces.

German amateurs started to operate – despite the ban - as early as Autumn 1945 in the zones.
Most courageous was a small Group from the Stuttgart area, with foreign-sounding fantasy callsigns: e.g. I1AW (Gerd Grözinger later DL1CS); EK3I (Kurt Schips, DL1DA); OE7KL (Robert Wahl DL1DC); EK2ND (Günter Naughty, DL1CP) and others. Soon they ventured to use the old Reichspräfix D. They met every Saturday as “ Saturday night club (s.a.c.)” founded on 26.4.1946.
>From 1945: D1AA - D6AA = West Berlin and Western zones
As of May 1946: 4AAX ff (last letter X) the first letter in the suffix denotes the QTH:
A = Eastern Zone,
E = North Rhine-Westphalia
G = Stuttgart area
R = Hamburg
>From late 1946 to late 1947: D3AAA ff. - Call sign with the first letter A without QTH code
In addition, many fantasy Calls were used, such as D4UKW from the Soviet. Zone. That little or no QSL cards were exchanged with these unlis-calls is understandable.
The International Radio Conference of Atlantic City (USA) 1947 reallocated DA-DM, in force after 1.1.1949. OE1WHC

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