Infantry Division 17 Belgium France summer 1940 Album:
Photo album (200+ pictures) charting Infantry Division 17 (Infanterieführer VII) progress through Belgium, & France in the summer of 1940. Many french POW, KIA, & colonial prisoners. Panzers and downed aircraft. Included technical shots are ; - Fairey Battle Mk.I - Potez 63-11 - LeO 451 - 15 cm sFH18 Howitzer - 10.5cm leFH18 Howitzer - Pz 35/t/ Skoda - Sd Kfz 251A - Pz I, A or B - Pz II Ausf c - Pz III E/F - Pz IV C/D. Also included are armour movements, General Herbert Loch (awarded Knights Cross 16 June 1940), the Douaumont Ossuary & some WWI French monuments. Including many pictures which give the scale of the destruction & bomb damage.
12th M.G. Kompanie, Infantry Regiment 5 Album:
Album from the 12th (Machine Gun Company) of the Infantry Regiment 5. With the establishment of the Wehrmacht in October of 1934, the 5.(Preußisches) Infanterie-Regiment's I.Bataillon and Ausbildung-Bataillon were used as the basis of Infanterie-Regiment 5, originally known as Infanterie-Regiment Stettin, of the 2.Infanterie-Division. Later to become Infanterie-Regiment (mot.) 5. Photographs include field exercises in Germany, barracks life and recreation, cavalry and what appear to be border crossings, pictures from France and Russia, including Orel. Reference information :5.(Preußisches) Infanterie-Regiment - 5.(Preußisches) Infanterie-Regiment - 5. (Preuß.) Infanterie-Regiment - 2. Infanterie-Division - Infanterie-Ersatz-Bataillon (mot.) 5
Reichsarbeitsdienst (RAD-Abt. 3/376) to Panzer Division (1940 - 1943). Germany, Norway, Poland, Denmark.
This album begins on 29th April 1940 in Braunau-Süd. It shows a member of the Reichsarbeitsdienst, Braunau-Ölberg, RAD-Abt. 3/376, throughout his barracks life in this Reichsarbeitsdienst (RAD) lager, rifle practice, bicycle repair and other leisure and work activities. It progresses to show the Reichsarbeitsdienst enroute in convoy to Norway on camouflaged troop transport ships. This appears to have been in the weeks immediately after the April 9th invasion of Norway by Germany (beating Britain by a few days). There are pictures of a heavily damaged Norwegian town and of the Nordic Fjords showing heavy sea-plane traffic, and also some of Lillehammer. Camouflaged warships and the Reichsarbeitsdienst band playing at the harbour. Later in 1940 this man completes his Reichsarbeitsdienst (RAD) service and joins/is conscripted into a Panzer Division. There are snapshots of him in Berlin in 1940 showing famous landmarks in wartime including : the Berliner Dom, Olympiastadion, Dietrich-Eckart-Bühne, the Reich Chancellery (Reichskanzlei), Brandenburger Tor, Sanssouci and Wunsdorf (Panzertruppenschule) barracks. There are several pictures enroute to Poland and also 1942 pictures of the man in his Panzer uniform wearing Panzer assault badge and wound badge at Neuruppin and Constanz. Towards the end of this album there are several pictures from Denmark 1943.
Rad to Cholm Album:
This album begins with Reichsarbeitsdienst service in Germany, 1939 and continues to Wehrmacht service in France, Belgium and Holland. Continuing from there to the Eastern Front and the Cholm area. The Cholm pictures are taken in the post Encirclement period, probably Winter of 1942 into early 1943. The identity of the unit is unknown but the possible units include : - Stab & 1. / schw. Artillerie-Abteilung 536 was subordinated to the 218th I.D. 18th July 1942 in / near Cholm. - The 3. / 536 was also listed on an order of battle chart for the 218th as of 5th July 42. - The I. / 536 (with 1st & 3rd companies subordinated) was listed on an order of battle chart for the 218th as of 1st August 42, and were still subordinate to the 218th until (at least) Oct 1942. One officer's name was Lt. Wehrhahn. - 7th August 1942 an 8,8 cm Flak of the 4. / F.R.1 was in the Cholm sector, the 16. / F.R. 1 was also there at the same time. The 4. / F.R. 1 left at some point, but was back again by mid-October 1942. - 27th Oct 1942 the 2. / schw. Art. Abt. 536 was also brought in under the 218th I.D. For more information on the Cholm Encirclement please check this link Cholm encirclement.
Infantry Regiment 93 (mot) of Infantry Division 13 - Poland Album:
Poland 1939 Blitzkrieg photo album which belonged to W. Koch from Köritz, who served in the Staff of the 2nd Batallion of Infanterieregiment 93, a motorised regiment in Infanteriedivision 13. Pictures include the regimental commander Oberst Dr. Ing. Ritter von Weber and Koch's battalion commander Major Oskar Radwan, who received the Ritterkreuz in France 1940.
A small album with some damaged pictures. Showing the aftermath of an attack on a Sd. Kfz. 231/232 including a Panzer funeral.Contains photographs of a meeting in Poland between a German delegation (including diplomatic corps) and a Russian delegation including a Soviet General. Other notable pictures include Polish POW's, cemetery, field graves, artillery towed by SdKfz, Panzerspahwagen, German airplanes, many vehicles, Polish bunker, radio transmission in the Funkwagen, also a Polish Jew instructed to wash Wehrmacht cars. There are a total of 34 photos, all taken in Poland, september 1939.
Reichsarbeitsdienst to Krim Shield Album:
Partly civilian album featuring a man's Reichsarbeitsdienst service and progressing to his time on the Eastern Front. Featuring pre-war snapshots taken surreptitiously in his technical school classroom showing his various teachers and fellow pupils. Also pictures of student entertainment intermixed with more sombre post-war photographs. This man was awarded the Kriegsverdienstkreuz 2.Klasse mit Schwertern, Winterschlacht im Osten 1941/1942, The Romanian Crusade Against Communism Medal in addition to the Krim shield, (awarded to the 11th Army German and Rumanian forces who had taken part in the long and heavy battles to conquer the Crimean Peninsula between 21-09-1941 and 04-07-1942)
Wehrmacht in Denmark album:
This album came with several letters & scraps which, along with the private photos, are non military and so not included. What is left is a small album showing some bomb damage, troops on the move & a handful of portraits. The envelopes are stamped August 1942 until October 1944.
162 Picture album of photographs from one mans time in the Wehrmacht working in a Map and Military Survey unit stationed on the Western Front in France (Le Harve to Courlay) and then later to the Eastern Front & into Russia. Included in the album are pictures of Wehrmacht helping to assess bomb damaged French houses & pictures of local french schoolchildren. Later in Russia there are pictures of Wehrmacht and Russian civilians living side by side There are also a couple of pictures of frigates & a damaged winter camouflage vessel. A Funklehrgang (Radio) unit, mail deliveries by plane, many pictures of bunkers & horseriding, one artillery and a couple of Panzer pictures. Also many staff cars and visitors to their position.
200 picture collection including the photo album of a Wehrmacht man who left Germany, & travelled through Holland, Belgium, France and into Spain. Included are pictures of Kissingen, Schweinfurt, Bamberg (Bavaria), Ghent (Belgium), Antwerp (Holland) Chartres, La Rochelle, Angouleme, Bordeaux, Gradignan, Arcachon, Souge, Lacanau, Biarritz, (France ) Hendaye on the Spanish border, the Pyrenees & San Sebastian in Spain. Also in the album are pictures showing Colonial French POW's working with the Wehrmacht in a POW hospital prison camp 'Lager Lazarett' Kgf-Laz: Lazarett für Kriegsgefangene. Belonging to this album are approx 90 loose pictures showing RAD enlistment and service, more Germany, France & colonial french POW's, vichy & many of the Russian front, Following the loose pictures is a camp publication from Front Stalag 221 Christmas 1941.
This is an early German photoalbum of a man from Großauheim who was a member of the Sturmabteilung (S.A.). There are photos of him in S.A. uniform in 1930 and marching with SA-Sturm 8 in 1932. He was a ranking member of an NSDSP Trade union the 'Nationalsozialistische Betriebszellen-Organisation', National Socialist Factory Cell Organization, better known as the NSBO. NSBO exsisted in the time before the Nazi party consolidated trades union into the D.A.F. Deutsche Arbeitsfront (German Labour Front). The NSBO were known to go on strike with Communists and so were not your average National Socialist organisation. There are many pictures of his NSBO activity, including NSBO Caps & formations. Some from an NSBO event at the Andreae Noris Zahn (a German pharmacutical company). Included are pictures of the man on his motorcycle as he toured Southern Germany in 1930 as well as some landscape pictures he took on his travels.There are also 2 pictures from an event which had in attendance 2 members of Allgemeine-SS. The '32' collar tabs denoting the 32.SS-Standarte 'Baden'.
This is the photo album of a Freiwilliger Arbeitsdienst (FAD) female member from November 1st 1934 to 30th April 1935. Both of these albums originate from the Freiwilliger Arbeitsdienst Lager (Camp) at Tressentin, North Germany. Each album features different Arbeitsmaid throughout. Other locations featured are Warnow, Rostock & Kröpeliner Tor. There are an array of FAD & Arbeitsmaid uniforms and insignia, field uniforms winter and summer and more formal uniforms. Also the uniform of Helga Tro who was the The Freiwilliger Arbeitsdienst Lg. Tressentin Maidenführerin & it's Maidenunterführerin 'Kate'. These albums are from an interesting and formative early period of NSDAP Germany and reflect a period when the NSDAP party were in the process of consolidating a myriad of organisations into more centralised structures. The Following organisations participated in the Freiwilliger Arbeitsdienst; the Katholischer Jungmännerverband (Catholic Young Men's Federation), the Katholischer Gesellenverein (Catholic Journeymen's Association), the Werkjugend (Factory Youth), the Zentralverband der katholischen Jungfrauenvereinigungen (Central Federation of Catholic Young Women's Associations), the Jugendbund des Katholischen Deutschen Frauenbundes (Catholic German Women's League's Youth Organization), and the Katholisches Reichswerk (Catholic Reich Charity Organization. Late war the RAD contributed to the war effort directly.
This is the 2nd photo album from a Freiwilliger Arbeitsdienst (FAD) female section covering May 1st 1935 to November 1st 1935 (Album 2). Both of these albums originate from the Freiwilliger Arbeitsdienst Lager (Camp) at Tressentin, North Germany. There are an array of FAD & Arbeitsmaid uniforms and insignia. This summertime album also contains leisure pictures of FAD women relaxing by the sea.
Incomplete and damaged World War 2 German (mid-war) photograph album. Includes SS Mann & SS & SD (Sicherheitsdienst SS Intelligence service) Untersturmführer, Female Luftwaffe Deutsches afrikakorps, Reichsarbeitsdienst members and ceremony, Deutsche Rote Kreuz, Bund Deutscher Mädel and Hitler Youth. Featured throughout are a military hospital and a sporting event (featuring several amputee SS/soldiers). Some landscape and civilian pictures are included also. Locations include Schlieffenwalde and Rakwitz (scene of violence against ethnic Germans 1 Sept 1939).
Early NS.- Arbeitsdienst ( NSAD ) & Reichsarbeitsdienst 172 photograph album from the period 1932 - 1935 primarily in Braunschweig, Hannover & Nuremberg. in Arbeitsdienstlager Bad Pyrmont 1932 up to Abteilung 5/187. Showing many early Reichsarbeitsdienst uniforms, Kepi, RAD Gorget, Reichsarbeitsdienst Standards & trumpet flags from the period when RAD service was voluntary. Many party badges, Reichsparteitag in Nuremberg including Speers vast Eagle construction at the Zeppelin Field. Candid pictures of Hierl, aerial displays and also several pictures of Adolf Hitler taken at Reichsparteitag. Reichsarbeitsdienstführer Hierl is visible many times.
Poland, France, Romania & Russian Front Wehrmacht motorised infantry (14th Column) album. Some pictures possibly relating to the 282.Inf.Div. during Zitadelle, 1943. This 274 picture Album covers one man on his wartime service into France (Nancy, Nantes & Strasbourg) Poland and then into Romania and Russia. Featuring many vehicles, motorcycles, staff cars, trucks, Raupenschlepper Ost (Steyr RSO), early panzer mockups/armoured cars as well as a Russian front Stug III variant-G picture & several 3.7 cm Antitank Gun - Pak. 35/36 L/45. Multiple trucks shown, including the Mercedes Benz type G3 Survey Truck & assorted Maschinefabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg AG (MAN) diesels. Covering day to day life in France including an officer inspection/ceremony in Nancy, a civilian funeral in romania (featuring a wehrmacht soldier participating in the funeral band). Field guns and artillery exercises and movements, land trains and movement by train into Russia. Deutsche Rote Kreuz in France. Marching in occuppied france and a road accident involving an overturned heavy truck. Features photographs of Wehrmacht field testing Panzerbüchse 39.
