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Wehrmacht
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Christmas 2006 Greetings from 1940 (Item WEHR 23-1) |
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| DESCRIPTION: This is a great original Mettlach Christmas plate from the 79th Infantry Division. It has the 1939 Iron Cross with pine branches and across the top it says “Kriegs-Weihnachten 1940,” which translates to “War-Christmas 1940.” Under the Iron Cross it says “Tapfer und Treu!,” which translates to “Valiant and Loyal!” The plate is by Villeroy & Boch Mettlach, the world’s most famous maker of beer steins and specific-edition souvenir plates. It measures 8 inches in diameter and is of the soft, coffee color. It’s a beautiful remembrance of the German Wehrmacht observance of Christmas regardless of the terrible war cast upon the fatherland and the sacrifice of German youth.
PRICE: $585.00 |
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Christmas Plate by Mettlach (Item WEHR 23-2) |
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| DESCRIPTION: This wonderful plate by the world-famous maker of fine beer steins and special, commemorative plates from the combined forces of the Deutsches Wehrmacht, which by then was engaged in heavy combat on various fronts. The plates were sent form the Villeroy & Boch factory to soldiers of the Reich as presents from the besieged fatherland. Knowing that regardless of the terrible war the German soldier remembers always Weihnacht (Christmas) and in German hearts always was the recognition of what they were fighting for: Reich, folk, leader, and holy Europe. The plate measures 8 3/4 inches in diameter and is the glossy, white texture. The design is traditional except for the national eagle with crossed swords. The company logo is clearly imprinted on the back with a small potter’s imperfection just above; not detracting. This is very rare.
PRICE: $495.00 |
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Book Entscheidende Stunden, Time of Destiny (Item WEHR 23-3) |
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| DESCRIPTION: This is absolutely the greatest wartime-period book that we have ever seen chronicling in pictures all the events and victories of the German Wehrmacht at the early stages of the war (“the good time”). It consists of 28 pages of text and the about 95 or 96 large black-and-white images with astounding clarity and detail. The subtitle, “MIT DER KAMERA AM FEIND” means “With the Camera on the Enemy.” It was published in 1941 in Berlin. Then comes the delightful surprise—about 24 large, practically all full-page color pictures of the early action, to include infantry in action, house-to-house fighting, panzer assaults, river crossings, destroyed enemy tanks, flame-thrower usage, and the most dramatic scenes are the mopping-up operations where the German soldiers make short work of the hated French Senegalese “brothers.” These were the hand-picked African troops that the French purposely installed in the German Rhineland to embarrass and degrade the defeated Germans after WWII. This must have been a delightful moment for the Landsers. In one of the pictures one bro still has his rifle in his hand as the German soldier closes in on him to disarm him. The book measures 11 x 9 inches. It was covered with plastic to preserve it. The pictures are 9 x 6 3/4 inches on the larger ones and only a few are 6 x 7 3/4 inches. If a book of pictures could be said to be tremendous, this is it. It’s very historically important.
PRICE: $495.00; expensive! No, fabulous and rare! |
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Wehrmacht-type Leather Coat (Item WEHR 23-4) |
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| DESCRIPTION: Here is a handsome, just-about-mint-condition, front-quarter horsehide coat similar to the type worn by German senior army officials and political leaders: Rommel, Manstein, Dietrich, and even Hitler and Himmler wore coats such as these. Hitler’s was even the same color as this one. Note our picture. The coats were seen in black, gray, brown, and a Wehrmacht off-green like this one. They were not issue. They were personally and individually purchased to preference and it was generally high-ranking officers that wore them and thus pretty much bypassed the regulations that would come into effect where a private or noncom would attempt to wear this “Ledermantel.” The styles varied widely as well. Some were double-breasted, button style, and others with no buttons like this one (it is a wrapper securely closed with belt only). This is not a vintage coat; it is practically new, but top quality throughout. Sometimes these coats were worn with shoulder boards and often not. But the color of this one is one of the most commonly used by army or Waffen-SS officers. We have placed the cap on the display for viewer perspective only. It does not go with the coat. The garmet is average size; not small, not large. It’s a great-looking addition to a collection. This top-quality leather and tailored coat would easily go for more than $1,300.00 in any good clothing store in Germany, today. This is not the type offered by reenactment supply sites. Those are made for pantomime and do not meet the quality or wearability. This coat you can wear for 50 years and your kid can wear it for another 50. It’s absolutely superbly made.
PRICE: $450.00; like new |
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WEHR 23-5; NSD 13-5) |
| DESCRIPTION: The items below are a group of ceramic dinnerware from the war years. It is quite common in Europe, but we have had people contact us by phone and email thinking that they might have an absolute treasure, but not realizing that these pieces were produced and distributed in the many, many millions. They are certainly collectables today, but do not command a lot of money by any means. They are all original pieces and many of them were produced by the best of German porcelain companies such as Meissen, Rosenthal, K.P.M.-Hutschenreuther, Bauscher, Weiden, etc. The ones that we have are all in very good condition (perfect, unless otherwise noted). They all bear the imprint under the glaze of the National Socialist eagle, or, in some cases, the cogged wheel of the Labor Front. The prices vary by whom made them because there are collectors of the famous-name pieces, but we have kept them all as reasonable as possible unlike a few sites where they ask extremely high prices considering that what they have is “genuine” Nazi. At Germania we try to keep things reasonable and affordable. |
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Wehrmacht and NS Party China Dinnerware (WEHR 23-5 No. 1) |
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| DESCRIPTION: This is a shallow soup bowl with eagle over the date of 1946 and was manufactured by PMR Bavaria. Under this is the manufacturer, Jaeger & Co. The bowl measures 9 inches in diameter. There are some minor stains from some great soup, I guess.
PRICE: SOLD |
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Wehrmacht and NS Party China Dinnerware (WEHR 23-5 No. 2) |
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| DESCRIPTION: This is a soup bowl marked with the Deutschearbeitsfront, or DAF cogged-wheel logo by Hutschenreuther in Selb, Bavaria. Around this is written and translated: “Beauty of Work and Model of the Corps.” Its famous lion is shown as the company logo. It’s 9 inches in diameter and shows wear on the front from years of use in the 1940s.
PRICE: $75.00 |
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Wehrmacht and NS Party China Dinnerware (WEHR 23-5 No. 3) |
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| DESCRIPTION: Here is a soup bowl manufactured by Bauscher Weiden in 1941. This one bears the national eagle under the glaze. It shows little wear on the inner edge, but is unchaffed and in perfect shape, otherwise. It has the Bauscher logo in an oval design.
PRICE: SOLD |
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Wehrmacht and NS Party China Dinnerware (WEHR 23-5 No. 4) |
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| DESCRIPTION: This is a dinner plate manufactured by Bauscher Weiden with its logo and the national eagle under the glaze. It’s dated 1937 (69 years old) and is in top shape; no stains, no chips, just as nice as they are ever found. It measures 9 inches in diameter.
PRICE: SOLD |
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Wehrmacht and NS Party China Dinnerware (WEHR 23-5 No. 5) |
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| DESCRIPTION: This is a dinner plate by the very famous Rosenthal company dated 1941, with the well-known Rosenthal logo from the city of Selb in Bavaria. Above the logo is the national eagle (under the glaze). It measures 9 inches in diameter and is in perfect condition. This is a very nice Rosenthal collectable.
PRICE: SOLD |
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Wehrmacht and NS Party China Dinnerware (WEHR 23-5 No. 6) |
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| DESCRIPTION: This is a luncheon sandwich plate with the logo of Felda Rhön with the glider shown as part of the logo. The cogged wheel of the DAF (Deutschesarbeitsfront) is with the swastika and words translated: “To the beauty of work.” It measures 7 1/2 inches in diameter and is in beautiful shape. This is a nice NS collectable.
PRICE: $65.00 |
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Wehrmacht and NS Party China Dinnerware (WEHR 23-5 No. 7) |
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| DESCRIPTION: This is a luncheon sandwich plate with the logo of Felda Rhön with the glider shown as part of the logo. The cogged wheel of the DAF (Deutschesarbeitsfront) is with the swastika and words translated: “To the beauty of work.” It measures 7 1/2 inches in diameter and is in beautiful shape. This is a nice NS collectable.
PRICE: $65.00 |
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Wehrmacht and NS Party China Dinnerware (WEHR 23-5 No. 8) |
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| DESCRIPTION: This is a large Eintopf Teller, or center bowl for stew or soup (a serving piece). This is rare in that there was one only of these in a mess-hall set of dishes. It bears the national eagle under the glaze and is produced by the crowned H&G of Selbe in Bavaria in its Heinrich label. This is truly rare and is in perfect condition.
PRICE: $275.00 |
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Wehrmacht and NS Party China Dinnerware (WEHR 23-5 No. 9) |
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| DESCRIPTION: This is a beautiful gravy bowl by the manufacturer Bauscher Weiden in 1939. Again, here is an exceptionally rare Wehrmacht-issue mess-hall piece. It’s in perfect overall condition with tray permanently attached to the bowl (one-piece construction). The tray is 9 inches long by about 6 inches wide. This is a very nice original German army or navy piece worthy of display in a good collection.
PRICE: $295.00 |
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Wehrmacht and NS Party China Dinnerware (WEHR 23-5 No. 10) |
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| DESCRIPTION: This is a huge central salad or pasta bowl. It could be for stew, also. This one is a treasure made by none other than KPM, Königliche Porzellan Manufaktur Berlin. This was absolutely the most prestigious of all the manufacturers of porcelain in the world. This was the porcelain of the kings and emperors of Germany. This porcelain manufactory gets its name when it was taken over by the famous Prussian King Frederick the Great, in 1763. At that time the scepter mark was introduced. This great center table bowl was produced for the Kriegsmarine, or German Navy. It has the eagle used only by the navy over the ‘M,’ the letter denoting Marine, the German word for navy. Under this is the crown over the ‘KPM’ letters and the date 1941, the second year of the Second World War. This is huge dish measuring 12 inches in diameter. This is in absolutely perfect shape throughout.
PRICE: $340.00 |
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Wehrmacht and NS Party China Dinnerware (WEHR 23-5 No. 11) |
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| DESCRIPTION: This is a small coffee cup in the white mess-hall china tableware. It’s made by Felda Rhön and bears the glider logo and the cogged wheel swastika with the words around it: “Modell des Amtes” and the usual “Schönheit der Arbeit,” “Beauty of Work.” The cup is 2 1/2 inches high with a diameter of 3 inches—sturdy little thing!
PRICE: SOLD |
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Wehrmacht and NS Party China Dinnerware (WEHR 23-5 No. 12) |
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| DESCRIPTION: This is a huge porcelain Eintopfessen tureen by KPM. For the story on KPM look at No. 10 for a brief explanation. This is an extreme rarity and a really great addition to any Kriegsmarine collection, or for any good collection of WWII relics. The item is not in the common variety. It’s in practically mint condition and as we stated--huge. It is in the classic style as used by the Deutschen Wehrmacht in its mess halls. It would be great for a Gulaschsuppe or a Hirsch stew, but because it’s for the Kriegsmarine, it probably will be “navy-bean soup.” The bowl is about 7 inches high, not counting the handles, and about 10 inches wide with an opening of about 9 inches. Being from ‘KPM,’ it has the wonderful, almost Allach, sheen. This is truly beautiful center piece for sure.
PRICE: $495.00 |
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Propaganda Poster (Item WEHR 23-6) |
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| DESCRIPTION: These posters recently were found in Russia and it’s believed that some of them were produced in Russian in towns where the populace was anticommunist and pro-German. They are decidedly old and some are a bit dog eared. Almost all have been folded and they were put away for many years. We were told that they were made in printing shops and in many cases sold to the liberating German army personnel and SS as souvenirs. Most are quite colorful and dynamic. Many of them came out of the Moscow Museum. They all seem to measure 34 x 24 inches. They were, up to now, a private collection of a man in St. Petersburg, who bought all he could find in the last 25 years. Russia is still chock full of German relics of WWII. They are priced differently according to the subject and condition. This is a recruitment poster that basically says: “Noncommissioned officer in the Army.” This is a really colorful poster with a strong message to the youth of Germany to enlist and fight for Führer and Fatherland. It mentions that 4 1/2- or 12-year enlistments are available. This is a nice centerpiece for a German WWII collection.
PRICE: $250.00 |
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Match Safe for Pioneer in German Army (Item WEHR 23-7) |
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| DESCRIPTION: Pioneer=sapper or combat engineer; a military specialist in using the tools and techniques of engineering under combat conditions, who may perform any of a variety of such tasks. Here is a match cover that is obviously for such an individual soldier. It certainly makes sense that a pioneer would need to keep his matches dry in such a way since moisture could be his oft-times enemy. The cover measures 2 x 1 3/4 inches and is in aluminum. It shows the German helmet, pick and shovel, crossed Mauser 98s, and the traditional Wehrmacht oak-leaf design. It’s in great condition, overall.
PRICE: $75.00 |
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Wolchowstock (Eastern Front) (Item WEHR 23-8; WAF 7-8) |
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| DESCRIPTION: Here is a very historically important item of German Wehrmacht history. These hand-carved sticks are named after the region known as Wolchow, where hard fighting was experienced by the Germany army, Luftwaffe, and Waffen-SS; especially the SS division, Frundsberg, in the late war years. Throughout the eastern campaign these sticks carved by Poles, Russians, and Ukrainians were given as tokens of friendship to the German soldiers from their Slavic supporters. On page 174 in Brian L. Davis’ book, German Army Uniforms, there is a picture of an officer who carries one of these sticks. Under the picture it says that the Wolchowstock is carved to commemorate the particular unit or campaign that to this officer would be appropriate. The sticks seldom show up today and they are always considered a real trophy of the vicious fighting in the war against Bolshevism that raged in the eastern territories. This particular piece is of the army style with the typical Slavic design intricately carved in several distinct sections with a crude, but familiar, Nazi eagle and swastika at the mid-top portion with the Iron Cross on the other side. The stick is very typical of the art form and is truly a historically important museum piece. It has the original leather thong attached. The length is 27 1/2 inches. The condition is fine. Don’t let this one get away; especially if you are a student or collection or eastern-front items of history.
PRICE: SOLD |
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Wolchowstock (Eastern Front) (Item WEHR 23-9; WAF 7-9) |
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| DESCRIPTION: Here is a very historically important item of German Wehrmacht history. These hand-carved sticks are named after the region known as Wolchow, where hard fighting was experienced by the Germany army, Luftwaffe, and Waffen-SS; especially the SS division, Frundsberg, in the late war years. Throughout the eastern campaign these sticks carved by Poles, Russians, and Ukrainians were given as tokens of friendship to the German soldiers from their Slavic supporters. On page 174 in Brian L. Davis’ book, German Army Uniforms, there is a picture of an officer who carries one of these sticks. Under the picture it says that the Wolchowstock is carved to commemorate the particular unit or campaign that to this officer would be appropriate. The sticks seldom show up today and they are always considered a real trophy of the vicious fighting in the war against Bolshevism that raged in the eastern territories. This stick was carved and presented to a member of the German Luftwaffe and is the busiest and most historically important example we have ever seen. It stands as a memory of the hard fighting at the Demyansk Pocket. See Wikipedia on the internet to find reference to this the most heroic struggle of the German forces in WWII. In the mid portion of the carved stick it says: “Festung Demyansk.” The carver, who was obviously a pro-German Russian or Ukrainian, had carved animals such as various birds and rabbits all over the design. Why? Below his perception of the Luftwaffe eagle are the large carved letter ‘H.S.’ These are probably the initials of the soldier who was the recipient. Among the birds is a pair of fighting roosters. Almost at the bottom of the stick it says ‘Winter 1941-42.’ Winding around the stick between birds and rabbits are the words “Südöstlich des Ulmen See.” What this refers to we don’t know, but it certainly had meaning to the warrior who received it. In any case this is without a doubt one of the best one of these elusive sticks that has ever shown up. Its length is 27 1/2 inches. Considering that this was one of the most hard-fought battles for all practical purposes. It was tank against tank and hand to hand; almost 90,000 German troops along with about 100,000 auxiliaries were trapped in the pocket, and this included the 12th, 30th, 32nd, 123rd, and 290th infantry division, as well as the Waffen-SS Totenkopf Division. The Luftwaffe lost 265 transport aircraft. Some 3,000 German soldiers lost their lives and 10,000 were wounded. The courageous Germans and other allied European forces finally, against vastly superior enemy numbers, broke out in a fantastic effort never to be forgotten in the annals of war. But it had a disastrous affect later at Stalingrad because the Luftwaffe simply did not have the necessary supplies and resources to supply Stalingrad and this was the main reason for the tragic loss. The stick is an important memento of the last struggle of the western nations against the malignant forces of communism with its allied support.
PRICE: SOLD |
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German Army Officer’s Cap Insignia Group (Item WEHR 23-10) |
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| DESCRIPTION: The eagle and the wreath and cockade are all original. It’s mounted on a piece of cardboard. At this point all the pins are tight and intact. We will not be responsible if the buyer moves these pins and one or two come loose or breaks when bending the prongs. The items are aluminum and can easily snap off if they are bent or straightened too many times.
PRICE: $78.00 |
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Original Oil Painting of a German Cavalry Officer (Item WEHR 23-11) |
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| DESCRIPTION: This is a great original rendering of a Germany cavalry officer in large proportion—25 x 38 inches. It’s painted on canvas and the canvas was long ago glued onto a board. The officer, who looks to be a major, holds a riding crop and wears several award medals to include the War Service Cross with swords for combatants, and two rider proficiency badges. His ribbon bar has the Second Class WWI Iron Cross, the Eastern Front Medal, Long Service Medals, the WWI Service Medal, etc. This is really a very nice dramatic rendering and an important historical find.
PRICE: $1,250.00 |
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Book Jahrbuch des deutschen Heeres, 1942 (Item WEHR 23-12) |
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| DESCRIPTION: This 212-page book is the “Yearbook of the German Army, 1942 and was published for Der Oberkommando des Heeres. Many pictures along with text tracing the victories and advances of the Wehrmacht are within its pages. This includes officers, equipment, personnel, etc. It has slick, fine pages in the pictorial sections with first-rate reproduction of the photos. This is historically important and in fine condition with plastic-covered original dust cover.
PRICE: $125.00 |
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