3386 - Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, Germany

Wolfsburg is a city on the Aller River and has about 125 000 people. It's famous for having the world's largest car plant and is the corporate headquarters for Volkswagen.

The city was a planned city and was founded on 1 July 1938. It was named Stadt des KdF-Wagens bei Fallersleben. It was built as a home for workers producing the KdF-Wagen (Volkswagen Beetle). During the Second World War, military cars, aeroplanes, a
nd other military equipment was built here by a workforce of mainly forced workers and prisoners-of-war. In 1942, German authorities established the Arbeitsdorf concentration camp for a few months.

The city and the Volkswagen factory were captured by American forces on 11 April 1945. About 7700 forced labourers were liberated from the Volkswagen factory. The Americans changed the name to Wolfsburg, after a castle located nearby. The area became a part of the British occupation zone in June 1945.

Wolfsburg is also home to the Autostadt, which is an open air museum/theme park dedicated to automobiles owned and operated by Volkswagen. Pavilions feature all of Volkwagen's major brands - Volkswagen, Audi, SEAT, Škoda Auto, Lamborghini, Bentley, Bugatti, Porsche.

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3584 - Blaine, Minnesota, United States of America

The sender was in Las Vegas recently and bought this card from The Mob Museum. The Mob Museum, officially known as the National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement, is located in downtown Las Vegas. It open in 2012. It features artifacts, stories, and the history of organized crime in the United States, but also the actions and initiatives by law enforcement to prevent such crimes. The museum is found at the former Las Vegas Post Office and Courthouse, which was built in 1933. The quote on this card was from John Gotti. John Gotti (1940-2002) was the mafioso and boss of the Gambino crime family in New York City. After ordering the killing of Gambino boss Paul Catellano in 1985, he took over the family and led what was the United States' most powerful crime syndicate. He was known as The Teflon Don after three high profile trials in the 1980s resulted in acquittals. Later it was revealed that the trials had been tainted by jury tampering, juror misconduct, and...

3564 - Kassel, Hesse, Germany

A wonderful message on this card that translates to to those wh o can wait, everything comes with time.

2346 - Iwate, Iwate, Japan

Keita is a junior high science teacher in Iwate 岩手町. He sent me a photo of the Tokyo Sky Tower during a fireworks display. The Tokyo Sky Tower is a broadcasting and observation tower in Simide, a special ward in the Tokyo Metropolis. It became the tallest structure in Japan in 2010. In 2011, when it was completed at a height of 634 meters, it became the tallest tower in the world, and the second tallest structure in the world, after Burj Khalifa in Dubai, UAE.

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