On Sunday, 16 October 1938, a great victory celebration took place in the stadium with the banners Wir sind frei! The town of Aussig a.d. Elbe was declared free and liberated. The long-awaited “Tag der Befreiung aus tschechischer Knechschaft” had arrived. 

After an agreement with the director of the Reich Post Office, the town of Ústí n. L. was allowed to be the only one in the Polabí region and one of the six Sudeten towns to overprint the three-pfennig stamps with the Hindenburg’s portrait with a stamp of a rising sun, a sword and the inscription “Aussig ist frei“. On a sheet of 100 stamps, every second stamp was overprinted (20,000 pcs) and the postal rate for each pair was 50 hellers. 

The first commemorative postmarks appeared. The earliest was the post office in Bukov, where the postmark was used as early as 9 October 1938. In the evening, the post offices Trmice and Střekov had a similar postmark. The postmarks were probably made long before the events, probably after the trip of the Germans from Ústí nad Labem to the Turner Congress in Wrocław (Breslau), where the meeting with the Reich Germans had a great influence on the people of Ústí. ‘Endlich frei von der Tschechen! Gott schütze Adolf Hitler!‘ The new elections in Ústí nad Labem on 4 December 1938 said ‘JA’ to the annexation of the Sudetenland. (Total 45,630 JA, 156 NEIN). On this date, the Reich Post also issued its commemorative stamps.