Im not fully convinced that this stamp looks particularly like Hitler, but this brief article prompted me to discover (when looking for and image of the stamp) that from 1947 to 1956 Saarland was a French-occupied territory separate from the rest of Germany. It was interesting also to read the death notice. Even though the harmful effects of inhaling asbestos fibers were known in the 1920's and 30's (the first case of death resulting from asbestos in the lungs reported in 1906 apparently), it was widely used and wasn't banned in the UK until 1986.
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