107 picture album of a cavalry unit showing horsedrawn wagons, field/anti-tank gun exercises and covering France and Russia. This includes a knocked out T-26 with KIA, Smolensk Cathedral, SdKfz 263 8-Rad Panzerfunkwagen tavelling in convoy through burned village and several 7.5 cm leichtes Infanteriegeschütz 18. Multiple pictures of Wehrmacht travelling by horse and with wagon & wagons by train. Russian Prisoners of War are shown marching back from the front while the army advance. It also features a set of pictures showing several troops marching from their barracks to the Stabsarzt Kommandant Luftschutzraum (bomb shelter) to present him with a flower.
Wehrmacht Engineers set - Nürnberg - Sandowitz (Żędowice) Album 1 of 3
This is the first of 3 wehrmacht photo albums covering Germany, Poland and Austria which also came with over 100 loose pictures (and a 4th unconnected album). This album starts in Germany with some familiar tourist locations in Berlin (including the zoo) and also the reeperbahn & Bismarck memorial in Hamburg, port of Rostock, Nürnberg & some fine examples of Backsteingotik architecture. This album focuses mainly on Poland and in particular the heavily jewish towns of Szczebrzeszyn & Zamość (former home of the communist Rosa Luxembourg), Łaszczów, Lublin & Sandowitz (Żędowice). Zamość was occuppied on Sept 14 by the German forces who then left it to the soviets who stayed only until October and on departure took approx 5,000 communist jews with them. A week later the Wehrmacht returned and re-occuppied this town. There is also a picture of the Warsaw Hauptbahnhof. In July 1944 Szczebrzeszyn and Zamość were taken by partisans & Polish resistance as part of the country-wide Operation Tempest. These albums come from a wehrmacht engineer crew and there are many pictures of them at work in workshops in Poland (Including Werkstatt zug 128). Other features include rifle practice, roma gypsies and a Polish funeral procession. Also wehrmacht food distribution to the local population & a ceremony at the memorial to Josef Schefzik, Franz Panek, Franz Piskor who died during during the invasion of Poland (appears) 19.9.1939. Volksbund records their deaths as Laszczow, Poland.
Wehrmacht Engineers set - Riezlern, Magdeburg, Sorau Album 2 of 3
This is the second of 3 wehrmacht photo albums covering Germany, Poland and Austria which also came with over 100 loose pictures (and a 4th unconnected album). This album starts in Riezlern (Austria) and moves on to Magdeburg (Germany) & then Sorau (Silesia, Prussia). This small album covers ski & field exercises and also includes some civilian and landscape pictures taken at Riezlern ski area in Austria.
Wehrmacht Engineers set - Hannover Album 3 of 3
This is the third of 3 wehrmacht photo albums covering Germany, Poland and Austria which also came with over 100 loose pictures (and a 4th unconnected album). This album includes pictures of mounted & field exercises and deployment to Russia. It also includes family pictures and a military sports event with decorated officers in attendance awarding copies of Fuhrertum to event winners. There is also one picture of jews outside an administrative buiding possibly taken at a Polish location from album 1 (Laszczów, Lublin & Sandowitz, Zamosc or Szczebrzeszyn).
These loose pictures belong to a 3 album set from an engineer/Pioneer or Werkstattzug company. Picture locations include Germany, Ukraine, Russia and Poland (Laszczów, Lublin & Sandowitz, Zamosc or Szczebrzeszyn). This set includes pictures of deployment to Russia & several pictures from a Wehrmacht funeral believed to be in the Ukraine. It also includes pictures of werkstattzug and Wehrmacht food distribution family pictures and a military sports event with decorated officers in attendance awarding copies of Fuhrertum to event winners. There is also one picture of jews outside an administrative buiding possibly taken at a Polish location from album 1 (Laszczów, Lublin & Sandowitz, Zamosc or Szczebrzeszyn).
This photo album is from an Schutzstaffel (SS) man involved in the organisation throughout the period 1932- 1933. This album covers the period of June 1932 through November 1933 when the NSDAP party participated in 3 General elections. The first election increased their mandate, the 2nd slightly decreased it and the third facilitated their rise to power in Germany. Included are interesting early Schutzstaffel (SS) and Sturmabteilung (SA) uniform designs (including an SS Medic with backpack), also pictures of election posters of the period (including the famous 'wir' one and the black and white Hitler face one) and marches by the SA & SS through Hamburg and to a local party headquarters. There are also pictures of SS And SA men posing with members of the Hamburg police with weapons and hound. The cufftitle appears to be '1', the SA collar tabs appear to be numbered '9/45' or possibly '5/45'. If you can provide any further information on this album please use the email link below.
153 picture album containing photographs taken during the fall of France in June 1940. Covering areas of heavy fighting from the early stages including Tonnere, Gien, Buttingen, Orleans, Marne, Maginot Line, Bussieres, Montargie, Nancy and a temporary bridge across the river Loire built beside the destroyed bridge. There are many scenes of total destruction from artillery bombardments & Blitzkrieg attacks. Included are pictures of captured French & colonial soldiers (including KIA and wounded), German field graves and wounded. Also a knocked out French tank (Renault FT17) and captured artillery. Other pictures show destroyed trains & convoys along with pictures of German columns, trucks and jeeps. Hauptmann (Major) Fleischer is present in some photographs as are some Gebirgsjäger men. Pictures of truck doors painted with female portraits and Tasso the war companion dog. The latter part of this album displays an official visit to the Warsaw ghetto showing the conditions present at that time. The Warsaw Ghetto was established in October 1940 and sealed November 1940 and it appears that these pictures were likely taken during this early period. Included is one photograph showing a streetsign to a Wehrmacht food ration station within the warsaw ghetto (Verpfl. Ausg. Verpflegungs Ausgabe - Food Rationing Station), along with several photographs showing jews wearing armbands (measure introduced Dec 1, 1939), including the famous ghetto armband of white with blue star. If you can add information on units or location details to this album please use the email link below..
The Infanterie-Regiment Königsbrück established 1 October 1934 was renamed to Infanterie-Regiment 53 on 15th October 1935 and then Infanterie-Regiment (motorized) 53 on 15 October 1942. These pictures are from the 1936 to 1938 period showing 1 Kompanie, Infantry Regiment 53 of the 14th Infantry Division based at Naumburg Barracks. After Versailles the Naumburg barracks (Hubertus barracks, Hindenburg barracks & Lüttich barracks) were used for trade and dwellings until IR 53 in 1935. After the war they were then used mostly by the army of the Soviet Union and abandoned in 1992. The photographs in this album cover the swearing in ceremony, Battalion exercises January 1937, May 1 Parade 1937, Autumn maneuvers 1937, Heldengedenktag (Day of Commemoration of Heroes) 1937, Thuringia maneuvers of 1938 & Zossen Panzer maneuvers 1938. Day to day shots include barracks life, arrival of new recruits, helping out on local farms (in Thuringia and Naumburg areas), local Sport events, flag parades, field gun training, overhead Zeppelins, weapons cleaning and rifle practice. Individuals mentioned include Gefreiter Tosca, 'Papa Waldenfels' - Oberst Wilhelm Freiherr von Waldenfels Aufstellung and the Feld Herr Herman the 'Großes Kind'. Weaponry and equipment includes Maschinengewehr 13 (MG-13), Karabiner 98k, 37 mm Pak & PzKpfw I, Ausf. B (Panzer I). Locations include Königsbrück, Naumburg, Thuringia, Lager Schmorkau, as well as the lake 'general müllerteich', Zossen & castle ruin at Rudelsburg. Reichsportsfeld & Berlin & Sanssouci pictures from 1938 are also included.
See also the IR 53 page at Lexicon de Wehrmacht. Also naumburg1933.de for more information on the role of IR53 in the remilitarisation of Naumburg.
This album is from a German army surgeon (Possibly a Dr. Peters) who worked as part of Sanitäts-Kompanie 625 (A) which was based for a time at Nowo Alexandrowskoje, Russia through 1942. The field hospital facility seems to have been purpose built (though it encompassed pre-exsisting buildings). It was possibly adjacent to it's own airfield and graveyard. Facilities included operating theatres, Dentistry, sauna, baths, showers & de-lousing rooms where "'Fiery Elias' chased away the louse". This location was also the sight of combat medals being awarded to the wounded men. This album included several typed texts which are shown here - these reference the general conditions, the lack of beer, the unreliability of generators & the equal level of treatment provided to both officers and men. Also shown are photographs of a captured KV2 Heavy Soviet tank in German service presumably in the immediate vicinity. Photographs of medical air transport, white field ambulances and mass funeral ceremonies with firing party are shown. Included also are more mundane pictures of field generators and Russian women washing clothes and an indoor skittles lane for staff recreation. The rare and unusual album closes with pictures of the medical team joking around and then relaxing for drinks outdoors during a Russian summer evening.
This album is from a man named Werner Rothe, Soldier in a Fernsprech Trupp which formed part of Stab Aufklärungs-Abteilung 129 der 129. Infanterie-Division. Formed 25 October 1940 near Hanau with three Squadrons. Disbanded 1943 and used to formed I./ Kavallerie-Regiment Mitte. Locations include Torun in Poland, Meiningen, Neukirchen & Schwarzenborn. There are also pictures from 1941 of the market square at Bromberg/Bydgoszcz (which was the scene of Polish violence against ethnic Germans on Bloody Sunday 3 September 1939). Vehicle licence plates include IT=Provinz Hessen-Nassau & IIU = Reg.Bez. Mainfranken. Vehicles include Mercedes-Benz 170V, gl. Einheits-Pkw', Opel Olympia, Opel Blitz, 1-ton vehicle, probably a 1936 or 1937 model & a BMW, probably a 320 model. The writings on the backs of pictures date them to a period between November 1940 and March 1941.
Photograph album of a man who served in the SS-Totenkopf-Standarte 2 Brandenburg. This album was de-nazified post war and all pictures which showed the swastika, Totenkopf deaths head or SS Runes were inked over. Some were covered in black fountain pen ink which was easily removed and this ink had the effect of preserving the image beneath in pristine condition, others were covered in ballpoint ink which was not possible to remove. There are pictures of NSDAP party members as well as SS Totenkopf black and white and colour studio pictures, Flak unit training pictures and a several from Russia. Non SS pictures include Reichsbahn, Deutsche Arbeitsfront (DAF), Deutsches Rotes Kreuz, Kriegsmarine artillery and Wehrmacht I.R. 62. There are also many family portraits and pictures of confirmations and weddings.
Collection of photographs showing SS Polizei in Norway. Featured are a Winter sports event at Skeikampen (possibly dated to April 14 to April 20 1942). Other locations include Hemsedal, Ullensvang & Vikersund. Featured are police General August Meyzsner who at that time was BdO (Befehlshaber der Ordnungspolizei) in Norway, members of the SS (Schutzstaffel) and SD (Sicherheitsdienst) in Norway & Reichskomissar Josef Terboven. Also included in this set are Schutzpolizei.
