WWII German Wehrmacht Steel Belt Buckle w/ Tab – Hermann Knoller 1941 Pforzheim
Nicely marked original with some green paint left on the front. Marked H.K for Hermann Knoller. Tab is nicely marked also. Price includes WW Tracked Shipping!
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Nicely marked original with some green paint left on the front. Marked H.K for Hermann Knoller. Tab is nicely marked also. Price includes WW Tracked Shipping!
An interesting unit! Max Haussler, born in Ulm in 1889. He served in the First World War. He was enlisted into the German Army in January of 1941. He spent some time in Trier on duty, interestingly the role of these units can be seen below: During the Polish campaign, the Wehrmacht had already shown a lack of discipline on an unexpected scale. The reason for this was certainly that the army, including the officer corps, had grown too quickly and still lacked internal strength. As early as October 1939, Brauchitsch (commander of the army) reprimanded the deficiencies in the officer corps that had arisen during the short war against Poland in a decree: “illegal collections, including theft, embezzlement of looted goods, mistreatment of subordinates while completely drunk, disobedience, rape”. He spoke of “lansquenet manners that cannot be condemned harshly enough”. (<>Decree of the Ob.d.H. of 25.10.1939, printed in: Messerschmitt, M./Gersdorff, U.v. (ed.): Officers in images of documents from 3 centuries. (= Contributions to military and war history, 6), Stuttgart 1964. p. 277). In addition, the Wehrmacht was forced to call 1.2 million combatants of the First World War back to the flag during mobilization in 1939. These family fathers, well over 40 years old, showed little enthusiasm for war. Many of these soldiers were deployed in state rifle units in the rear of the front or in the divisions of the 3rd wave on the Upper Rhine front, and during the phase of the “seat war” up to spring 1940 there were repeated contacts with the French on the opposite side. In the area of the HGr. C, the first cases of soldiers carrying their rifles with the muzzle pointing downwards became known at the end of October 1939. When front-line troops were transferred from the east to the west after the Polish campaign, transport wagons were decorated with slogans that fatally equated party divisions with the staging of the World War. For example, they said: “The front-line pig is here, where is the SS, where is the SA?” Such incidents, which were harmless in themselves, immediately triggered memories of revolting troops in November 1918 and caused considerable unrest among the political leadership of the regime, but also among the army leadership. Brauchitsch and Halder both compared the internal state of large parts of the army in autumn 1939 with signs of decay towards the end of the First World War. For example, the Chief of the Army General Staff noted in his diary at the beginning of November 1939: “Pictures like 17-18 are emerging.” <>(Halder, Franz: War Diary. Daily notes of the Chief of the Army General Staff 1939 – 1942. Vol. 1, Stuttgart 1962, p. 116.) The field gendarmerie, which was primarily intended to monitor military order and discipline, was only able to monitor soldiers to a limited extent due to its ties to large units and commands. Large areas of the German sphere of influence were also not covered by local commands (home war zone, parts of the occupied territories under civil administration), so that there was initially hardly any control here. In November 1939, these phenomena gave rise to the establishment of the army, air force and naval patrol services, which were combined on February 1, 1941 under the leadership of the OKW to form the “Wehrmacht patrol service”. The patrol units set up in 1940 as individual patrols or patrol companies of the respective command authorities were combined from 1941 onwards into army patrol groups (later Wehrmacht patrol groups) and train guard departments. The task of monitoring the behavior of individual soldiers in public was later replaced by the requirement to look after soldiers by setting up food stations, warming rooms, overnight accommodation, washrooms, etc. at rail junctions at home and in occupied territories, as well as at other locations where large concentrations of soldiers traveling alone suddenly appeared. To this end, the patrol services were then linked to the Wehrmacht travel agencies (transport offices, front control centers) and the mobile or stationary care facilities. The unit he was posted with also was: Bahnhofs-Wach- u. Streifen-Abt. 108 Spent the winter of 1944/1945 in Bad Ems, their main task was the checking of Soldiers Soldbücher for holiday overstays etc. Entries in the Soldbuch: Nice entries for, M43 Field Cap, Riders Boots, Peaked Visor Cap, and a Belgian Herstal Pistol in 7.65mm. Entry on page 14, on the 16.4.1945 he was demobilised although this did not work when the allies got hold of him and he was arrested the same day! Awarded the War Merit Cross with Swords in September of 1943.
A very interesting Berliner Soldbuch, to Otto Laube born in 1909 in Berlin. He worked as an Architect and Lived with his wife Gertrud in Berlin, Wicherstrasse 4. This is his second edition Soldbuch, issued on the 27th of January 1945 in Berlin Spandau, with Grenadier Ersatz und Ausbildungs Btl 203. Interestingly, he had prior service, and was promoted to Lieutenant on June of 1943. He was awarded the following awards with the following units: War Merit Cross with Swords – 30.1.1943 – Res Grenadier Btl 457 Iron Cross Second Class – 7.3.1943 – Feldpost Nr 33711 Iron Cross First Class – 28.3.1944 – Feld Ausb Rgt 716 – Ukraine Wounds Badge Black – 1.5.1944 – “” – Romania He was on his enlistment given a holiday of more than two weeks, although for some reason this was not granted! He was deployed in January instead Research shows that the Grenadier Ersatz und Ausbildungs Btl 203 was attached to the Division Nr 463, then Division Raegener, on the Oder Front. One entry shows he was able to purchase a Sauer Pistol in the 7,65 Caliber. This was acquired from the Wach Regiment Grossdeutschland in Berlin Rathenow! Interestingly, there is an entry on page 8, that states he was issued some items in Berlin Spandau with his unit on the 20th of March 1945. https://www.balsi.de/Weltkrieg/Einheiten/Heer/Divisionen/Divisionen-Nr/463-Div-Startseite.htm Three days later the last order for the mobilization of the reserve units was called, the Leuthen Ostgoten Bewegung. His unit was deployed south of Berlin in Beeskow. It is unknown what happened to Otto Laube, there is no record of him on the missing lists or on the German war dead lists. Many pages from this unit fell/went missing in the Berlin area in April 1945. It seems that some of the men of this unit made it to the Elbe (Lenzen) to surrender to the US Army ( 84th Division) and they were well recorded. Kriegsende im Wendland: Brückenkopf Lenzen. Karl-Heinz Schwerdtfeger · 2010 “The daily report of the 84th US Infantry Division dated April 24, 1945 states: The main burden of this counter-attack was borne by a hastily formed Kampfgruppe Boris (Briest). This motley crew of cripples, old men, recent inductees, mentally deficients and morons was formed in Perleberg around the remaining remnants of the Grenadier Replacement and Training Battalion 203 from Berlin-Spandau. … The chaos ended when both companies attempted to surrender, as their losses were very high. Note: The Lieutenant Colonel from the staff of the 84th US Infantry Division who wrote these lines has probably never experienced a ‘fire time on target’ (armed personnel carrier barrage) when he describes wounded prisoners as cripples. When he describes the prisoners who escaped the armed personnel carrier and mortar fire, who were deafened by the explosions, who came towards the Americans with stony faces as idiots. It takes a great deal of arrogance to write something like that! Was Laube one of these men that made it to the US lines? We will never know…
A desirable Wehrpass, Emil Hahne from Bochum, Germany born in 1919. Hahne worked in his civilian life as a Finance Administrator. He was in the Hitler Youth, awarded the Reichs Jugend Abzeichen and later the Reichssportabzeichen. Hahne volunteered in 1937 for service, shortly after his RAD service he was sent as a volunteer to Flak Regiment 4 (Dortmund) in 1938. Training Search light 150cm Model 34 & 37 K98 Rifle Radio Trained 8.8cm Flak 18 & 36 Command Device 1940 Radio Fu.M.G.39 Special training November 1942 – Troop Leader – School in Berlin Heavy Weapons Training – Command Further training on Heavy Weapons and measuring/command devices. Promotions 10.1939 – Gefreiter 10.1940 – Obergefreiter 11.1941 – Uffz Cadet 12.1941 – Uffz 9.1942 – Wachtmesiter 2.1943 – Leutnant Awards 7.9.1942 – Flak Badge 15.11.1944 – Iron Cross Second Class (16 Flak Division) 1.11.1944 – War Merit Cross Second Class with Swords (16 Flak Division) Badges for the following trades; Funker & Flak Frontline Units: 12.1938 till March 1943 Flak Regiment 4 Around 500 days fighting! Are entered in the Wehrpass for the defence of areas with the Flak unit. In North West Germany (Dortmund). 8.1.1944 till 10.9.1944 Stab/Gemischte Flak Abteilung 652 (v) – RAD 11.9.1944 till Wars End Flak Regiment 18 (mot) (16 Flak Division) The divisional command post was located in Huis Ter Heide in Holland from September 22nd. During the Allied airborne operation in the Nijmegen-Arnhem area (Operation Market Garden), the division was briefly placed under the command of the 1st Parachute Army in September 1944. On October 9th, 1944, the divisional command post moved to Apeldoorn and on October 23rd, 1944 to Doetinchen. On February 9th, 1945, the divisional staff was converted into the General Command of the VI. Flakkorps, and the division was thus disbanded. Entered in the Wehrpass: Retreating Battles front he areas: Arnhem, Winterswijk, Hättstedte, Haaksbergen, Enschede, Dreierwalde, Bippen, Quakenbrück, Hemmelte, Beverbrück, Littel, Oldenburg till Cuxhaven. Daily enemy contact including artillery fire. Very desirable entries!
Reinhard Ott enlisted into the Wehrmacht in April 1942. Born in 1906, in Schwerin, and worked as a guard. Standort Batl z.b.v Berlin I (1942 – 1943) Einsatz Kompanie OKW/I – 1944 German Army High Command Berlin – Unit for “Instand” basically inventory and upkeep. Feldzug Kompanie Schöneberg – 1945 Entry full kit – 23.4.1945 – Berlin Schöneberg Considering he was in Berlin Schöneberg in late April of 1945 it is highly likely that he was deployed in the street fighting in Berlin. On the German red cross list, there is one man missing from his unit in Berlin 1945. Awards War Merit Cross with Swords – April 1944 – OKW Final Comments: He died in Berlin 1985.
Bruno Hermann from Berlin Neukölln was born in 1902 and worked as a salesman. He served in the following units: Landeschutzen Btl 325 Landeschutzen Btl 321 – 1942 / 1943 Wach Kompanie Dulag 102 – September 1943 DURCHGANGSLAGER (DULAG) 102 The Wehrmacht established Dulag 102 on March 17, 1941, from the staff of Frontstalag 102.1 Its first provisional deployment was to Poland. It received field post number (Feldpostnummer) 38 028 between February 28 and July 27, 1941; the number was struck on November 8, 1944. The first camp commandant was Oberstleutnant Georg Böhm. Two others followed, but their names are unknown. The unit came under the jurisdiction of the Security Division (Sicherungsdivision) 207 in May 1941 and deployed to different locations in the Army Group North Rear Area (Heeresgebiet Nord). In July and August 1941, Dulag 102 deployed to the city of Šiauliai (map 9b), where the camp personnel also participated in the massacres of Jews. They guarded the small synagogue in which the Jews were imprisoned and then transported them in trucks to the execution site. An execution squad from the unit shot a Soviet commissar and other prisoners in Šiauliai. In 1943, Dulag 102 deployed to different locations in Russia and Ukraine under the Fourth Panzer Army Rear Area Commander (Kommandant rückwärtiges Armeegebiet, Korück 593, later 585). For example, in the autumn of 1943, the unit was stationed in the village of Kustovoe (9d).8 In late 1943 and early 1944 the camp was located in various places in Ukraine. In August 1943, Dulag 102 was stationed in the village of Nikolaevka (today Mykolaivka, Sums’ka oblast’) (9f) with subcamps in the cities of Vorozhba, Buryn’, and Konotop. In September 1943, the unit deployed to the village of Dmitrievka (today Dmytrivka, Chernihivs’ka oblast’) (9f) with branches in the villages of Khmelev (today Khmeliv, Sums’ka oblast’) and Velikii Sambor (today Velykyi Sambir, Sums’ka oblast’). At the end of 1943, Dulag 102 deployed to the city of Novograd-Volynskii (today Novohrad Volyns’kyi). The conditions in the camp were the same as those in other camps for Soviet prisoners, and they were particularly bad while the camp was located in Volosovo. The prisonershad to endure scarce food, overcrowding, lack of proper medical care, and harassment by the guards, which led to massive hunger and illness and a high mortality rate. As in other camps, the Germans separated out from among the newly arrived prisoners the Jews and Communists, who were then shot near the camp by the guards or a Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, SD) detachment. The order for the camp’s disbandment was issued on November 14, 1944. Armee-Kriegsgefangenensammelstelle (AGSSt) 52 During the Second World War, both the High Command of the Wehrmacht and the High Command of the Army were responsible for prisoner of war issues. All prisoner of war camps in the Reich were subordinate to the OKW, while the camps in the operational area were subordinate to the Quartermaster General in the Army General Staff. The Luftwaffe prisoner of war camps were subordinate to the Luftwaffe High Command, and those of the Navy to the Navy High Command. There were different types of camp for different purposes: Captured soldiers were disarmed and separated into soldiers and non-commissioned officers / enlisted men. They were then taken by the fighting troops to prisoner of war reception camps (Auflag) or army prisoner of war collection points (AGSST) set up just behind the front. The prisoner of war collection points were subordinate to the commander of the rear army area (Korück), and guards were provided by the field gendarmerie and army guards. From the collection points, the prisoners of war were then sent to transit camps (Dulag) in the rear army area, which were under the responsibility of the respective security division. There were also main front camps (Frontstalag), in which captured soldiers of all ranks were registered and then quickly taken to their destination. In the transit camps and front stalags, responsibility for the prisoners of war was then transferred to the OKH, which organized their onward transport to the officers’ and men’s camps in the Reich. This system had proven its worth in the first months of the war in Poland, France, Norway and the Balkans. With the start of the Russian campaign with its huge territorial gains in the first months, this system reached its limits and went beyond them. In addition, the war against Russia was planned from the start as a war of extermination, in which the rights of prisoners of war were massively curtailed. On the way to the transit camps and then to the main or officers’ camps, thousands of Red Army soldiers were shot by the escort teams. In many camps, the new arrivals were left to fend for themselves, had to live in the open air or in self-dug caves, received too little food and little or no medical care. Until September 1941, the daily rations were still relatively sufficient, after which the military leaders cut the allocations considerably. The reasons for this were the unexpected failure of a lightning victory, the lack of supplies for the army, which found too little food in the conquered areas, a lack of transport capacity and a general supply crisis that began especially at the end of 1941, the impending winter and Hitler’s initial ban on transporting Soviet prisoners to the Reich. Hermann Göring did not want to endanger the mood of the German population by the lack of grain deliveries and falsely claimed on September 16, 1941 that, unlike other prisoners, the Bolshevik prisoners were not “bound by any international obligations”: “Their food can therefore only be based on the work they do for us.” In fact, Article 82 of the Geneva Convention of 1929, which Germany had signed in 1934, also applied to enemy states that had not joined the treaty. But at the beginning of October 1941, Quartermaster General Eduard Wagner decreed: “Non-working prisoners of war in the prison camps must starve to death. Working prisoners…
Both Wehrpasses from WWI and WWII for Adolf Schulz Fought with Res.Infanterie Reg Nr 74 in WWI in the following battles: 6.1916 – Verdun 9.1916 – Trench Warfare in Argonne 9.1916 – Wounded in Argonne 1918 – Champagne, Flanders, Ypres, Monchy-Bapaume. Siegfried Line, Flanders (November 1918!) March 1919 – Infanterie Regiment 165
Wounded with a splinter in the chest, he was awarded the Black Wounds Badge and the Eastern Front medal. According to https://www.ww2.dk/Airfields%20-%20Poland.pdf They were guarding airports in Warsaw. The picture looks to be changed (?), hence the price.
Soldbuch to Major Konrad Müller, born in Cologne in 1894. Worked as an architect and lived with his wife. Served with the following front line units: Infanterie Regiment 453 – 14th Panzer Abwehr Kompanie Eisenbahn Pionier Regiment 2 Eisenbahn Pionier Regiment 25 Eisenbahn Bau Btl 513 – Armee Korps 17 The remaining parts of AOK 17 were collected at Army Group South Ukraine. The reorganization of the 17th Army began there in May 1944. From the end of July 1944, the newly formed 17th Army was then deployed in Galicia between San and Wisloka. From the beginning of October 1944 to mid-January 1945, the army was deployed for positional battles on the Wisloka between the Vistula and the Carpathians. The army then had to endure heavy retreat battles in western Galicia and the Upper Silesian industrial area. Until the end of the war, the army fought in central Silesia between the Neisse and Lauban. The defense of Breslau also fell within its area. Awards: 25.5.1915 – Iron Cross Second Class 20.2.1918 – Iron Cross First Class 1934 – Hindenburg Cross 10.12.1940 – War Merit Cross – Second Class 27.1.1942 – War Merit Cross – First Class 10.8.1942 – Eastern Front Medal Entries on the last page: Owner of this Soldbuch died in the hospital of POW Camp Tschesepowitz, Wologda 3.4.1946. Next of kin was informed. Müller was a Leader in the company Felten & Guilleaume. His family grave in Germany there is a memorial to him also, even though he lays without a marked grave near the camp and never has been properly buried. (Picture Attached)
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