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Photo Albums
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Soldier’s Album with His Medals and the Award Document (A Great Group) (Item ALBUM 2-1; WEHR 26-14) |
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DESCRIPTION: This is what we would consider a little WWII treasure with all of 259 photographs inside; mostly all uniform pictures on several fronts, including Russia. He was a Sanitatsgefreiten assigned to Sanitatats Section 217. This translates to a medic or medical private in a first-aid detachment. A “Gefreiter” is a private. In 1939 a private in the infantry was called a “Shütze. In 1942 Hitler personally replaced the term ‘Shütze’ with the term ‘Grenadier’ as an homage to the armies of Frederick the Great. A Gefreiter was essentially a grenadier in the course of the horrible fratricidal war, WWII. Probably the most dangerous duty in the Wehrmacht, especially the infantry, was being a medical orderly, especially on the eastern front as the Russian snipers were delighted to have one of these people in their crosshairs because killing one of these brave men would ostensibly deprive wounded soldiers of any chance of combat survival. This was the way of that terrible conflict. In contrast to the actions described in the last paragraph, here is a special note:
PRICE: SOLD
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Army Photo Album (Item ALBUM 2-2) |
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| DESCRIPTION: This is very neat little photo album in a green leatherette binding. This one has a great cover with a silver German helmet and sword laid at the left-top cover. The word “Erinnerungen” (remembrances) in gold is in the right-bottom corner. The first pages have some fine snapshots of the former owner and his Kameraden and a certain faithful Hund (dog) is seen with this soldier in one picture. Some great scenes of training, exercises, tomfoolery, and group photos abound. There are many pictures of the Wehrmacht invasion of red Russia, troop movements by rail, a great picture of a beer-drinking get-together, a Wehrmacht funeral with rifle salute, tank pictures, the excursion into France, and liberation of the Rhineland. French, white, and negroid prisoners, French West Indies volunteers now prisoners, and French Arabic volunteers in German captivity. Our soldier and his comrades enter Paris and there is a great picture of them at the top of the Eiffel Tower. Many pictures of various German soldiers who were comrades of the owner of the album—about 147 pictures practically all are of military men and scenes. The album measures 8 x 10 inches and is about an inch thick. It’s in nice shape with a couple of the pages coming loose.
PRICE: $225.00; a bargain
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Family Album (Item ALBUM 2-3) |
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| DESCRIPTION: This to us is the greatest album of them all. Why? Because it is the most personal one we have ever seen and when held in the hands it sums up the feelings and sentiments of the lives and fate of the humankind the nobility of our race and motherland. Here is the story in pictures of one family’s history, its marriages, it gentlemen and ladies, its children, its grandchildren, its homes, its churches, its schooling. There are written histories and poems by family members, the old, the young, the births and deaths are clearly shown in the pictures. There probably was never an album that has such clear explanations under each and every picture so wonderfully sorted out and labeled. The family is from the “kleines Dorf” (small village) of Germersheim on the Rhein, or so it seems to indicate that this was the family’s home from 1920-1922. It was also based in Kaiserlautern. There are some great pictures of family members in the uniform of the Kaiser’s army. There are great clear pictures of beautiful children of that age in school and at play. Throughout the album the Germanophile will be struck by the sheer beauty of the Deutsches Vaterland. The poem and sonnets throughout speak of duty, love, patriotism, great pictures all the way and finally we get up into 1933, the year of Hitler’s ascension to power. We still see WWI scenes and then pictures of one of the boys, now a soldier in Wehrmacht uniform, who fell for Germany early in the Russian campaign. There are pages devoted to “Vetter Karl” and Vetter Kurt in their snappy Wehrmacht uniforms plus their SA and Labor Corps garb—I said the family was patriotic. Another shows Karl in the outfit of a naval flak-duty sailor. Kurt is shown in cavalry service in Russia. Family members are pictured in the ranks of the Hitler Youth and BDM. There are many pictures of the young family members in the service of the Reich political and military army, navy, air force. Many did not return from the war and there are pictures of war graves. The pictures in the last pages go into the 1950s and the last shows a beautiful picture of an elderly couple sitting and reflecting on the past of this wonderfully Germanic family. They were photographed on a bench in the beautiful Bavarian Forest. The very last picture is a cross upon a mountaintop with a wonderful poem handwritten below. Are you enough of a Germanophile to love this as we do? Deutschland über alles!. This, as far as we are concerned, is the best photo album we have ever offered or even ever seen. Why? Because it is almost alive in its message of a family typical of my Teutonic roots and possibly yours.
PRICE: $550.00
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