Third Reich stamp sets and issues of 1940:

Leipzig Spring Fair (3rd March 1940):

Here I have a set of four stamps issued to commemorate the Leipzig fair of 1940. All four stamps show views around the city of Leipzig and they were designed by husband and wife team Axster-Heudtlass. They are catalogue code Michel 739 - 742.

The Labour Day Swastika Knight (30th April 1940):

Here is a single stamp issued for Labour Day of 1940. It depicts an armoured Aryan knight with a swastika and eagled adorned chestplate wielding a large sword. On either side of the knight are runes and behind him a man tirelessly working the fields. This stamp utilizes virtually all of Nazi Germany's nationalistic imagery and paints the party as quite literally a knight's order. Heinrich Himmler would have loved this issue. It is catalogue code Michel 745.

Fiftieth Anniversary of Diphtheria Antitoxin (26th November 1940):

Here are a set of two stamps issued to commemorate the passing of fifty years since Emil von Behring, a German physiologist, discovered an effective diphtheria antitoxin. He was known widely as a saviour of children due to diphtheria's tendency to kill the young and infirm. He was consequently awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, the first ever awarded in that field.

These stamps were intended to honour Emil von Behring and are catalogue code Michel 760 - 761.