WH France Belgium Holland summer 1940 Album:
Photo album (200+ pictures) charting Wehrmacht progress through Belgium, Holland & France summer 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 Loch, the Douaumont Ossuary & some WWI French monuments. Including many pictures which give the scale of the destruction & bomb damage.
M.G. Kompanie Album:
100 pictures from an album of a member of the 12th Machine Gun Company, Infantry Regiment 5, including many photographs of Wehrmacht machine gun training, units on maneuvers and finally to the Eastern Front. Including one picture showing the Orthodox Church in Orel which survived the war but was destroyed in the 1950's by the Communists.
Rad to Panzer Album:
250 Picture Photo Album showing career progress from Reichsarbeitsdienst (or RAD, Reich Labour Service) through to Wehrmacht ending in his Panzer assignment. Takes in many countries including Norway.
Rad to Cholm Album:
87 Pictures from Reichsarbeitsdienst to Wehrmacht, France, Belgium, Holland & ending in Ostfront caught in the lengthy Cholm Encirclement. I believe this is one album from a series as it ends abruptly at Cholm. For more information on the Cholm Encirclement please check this link Cholm encirclement.
Poland Blitzkrieg 1939 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.
Rad to Krim Album:
This album came with several private pictures which are not included here. Awarded the KVK with Swords, Winterschlacht im Osten & Krim Shield. This small collection shows this man from youth to college drinking days to Reichsarbeitsdienst and then to the Wehrmacht and the Eastern Front. It ends with some post war pictures.
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.
