Interesting little grouping to Johann Kriebs,  First and foremost his Soldbuch has a rare insert, issued by the unit, it states his religion and his last wish to be buried in a Roman Catholic church.  He served in the frontline with Infanterie Regiment 125 in the Pak unit (Anti-tank Gun).  Unit history: The regiment was put into action on the Western front. In early 1941 it saw combat in the Balkans. By the end of September of that year the regiment fought in Serbian area. In 1942 the regiment became motorized and in October 1942 it was renamed into Panzer-Grenadier-Regiment 125 and was shipped to Afrika. It would see that Kriebs was sent to Kreta as a driver, where it also seems he was heavily wounded as in August of 1946, he is still suffering from grenadier splinter wounds in Dekheila in Egypt.  Awards: KVK 2nd Class with Swords, and the medal of the 1st of October 1938.  Comments: However he was wounded, his Soldbuch is stained with blood. An interesting set considering he was in Egypt as a POW. Also a nice entry is for the rifle protection bag/cover for the K98, not often seen.   

Rare Volkssturm Soldbuch issued to Willy Schmalzried in January 1945  The XVIII SS Army Corps was formed in December 1944 on the Upper Rhine from the remnants of 3 Wehrmacht infantry divisions.In January 1945, the corps joined the 19th Army until the end of the war. It fought on the upper reaches of the Rhine between Donaueschingen and Schaffhausen. On May 6, 1945, between the Black Forest and the Bodensee, it surrendered to the French First Army. Designation: Volkssturm Battalion Stettenfels Installation site:Reichsgau Württemberg-Hohenzollern Time of installation:before 2/12/1945 Unit Leader: unknown Mission:was subordinated to the XVIII.SS-AK according to the war organization of March 20, 1945, Special features / note: FPN 30979: (11/25/1944-end of war) 2/12/1945 staff and 1.4. Company Volkssturm-Bataillon Stettenfels / Feldpostbrief with adapted date stamp from March 23rd, 1945, exact place of installation probably area Untergruppenbach (Stettenfels is a castle in this place, district Heilbronn)  

Wehrmacht Soldbuch – Ernst Ames MISSING Pages 1 – 4  Awards: CCC Bronze, Black Wounds Badge, Assault Badge, Iron Cross Second class, Eastern Front Medal.  Issued: Various weapon systems, P.38 Pistol and a winter uniform.  Wounded: shot in the chest with a bullet and survived in January of 1944. On healing he seems to what seems to be sent Landeschützen Batl 3 – in Berlin in 1945. Although he was captured in the West by US Troops so he somehow made it out.  Ames was NCO in Artillerie Regiment 134  (134 Infanterie Division)  Divisional History  From 21 On May 1st, the march to the staging area took place, which ended around June 5th. The division then advanced to the Bug about 45 km north-west of Brest-Litovsk. On June 22nd, the day the war against the Soviet Union began, the 134th Infantry Division crossed the Bug near Mielnik. Army Corps. While the 134th Infantry Division faced only evasive opponents in the first days of the war, between June 25 and 29 it was involved in heavy fighting in the Nowy Dvor, Porozow, Podorosk, Lyskow area. After a brief rest, the division started its advance through Belarus on July 4th. The bulk of the division was initially able to advance to Slutsk on the runway. In mid-July, however, the advance stalled because before the XXXXIII. Army Corps Marching LIII. Army Corps at the Berezina met strong enemy resistance. The 45th ID fought and struggled through the Pripet swamps about 110 km south of the 134th ID at this time (15th July Turov). From mid-July to early August 1941, the 134th Infantry Division moved to the area south of Bobruisk, where it had to fend off Soviet counterattacks. The division’s front gradually expanded from Glussk to Parichi to 50 km to the east. The southern neighbor, separated by the huge swampy areas between Pripet and Berezina, was the 45th Infantry Division. Between August 11th and 14th the two divisions interacted for the first time in the Schazilki/Yakimowskaya Ssloboda area on the Beresina. After crossing the Berezina, the 134th Infantry Division continued to the east and crossed the Djnepr at Streschin and Zhikhov. The division then advanced on Retschiza from the north, while the 45th Infantry Division came from the west and crossed the Dnieper at Bronnoje, just south-east of Retschiza. Towards the end of August the paths of the two divisions crossed between Retschiza and Gomel. While the 45th Infantry Division crossed the Ssosh just south of Gomel, the 134th Infantry Division crossed this river at Sharpilovka on August 26 after clearing the Dnieper-Ssosh angle. The subsequent southern swing of the two divisions in the direction of the Dessna was already part of the introductory operations to the Battle of Kiev. On September 8th, the 134th Infantry Division took Tschernigow against tough enemy resistance and then advanced in a southeasterly direction. The 45th Infantry Division crossed the Dessna on 9 September with lively Russian air activity and now also attacked to the south-east. On September 14th the armored spearheads of the Genobst meet. Guderian of the North and of the Comb. Kleist from the south around 150 km east of Kiev and close a huge pincer around 5 Soviet armies. And now the infantry is being hurried, the 44th, 45th, 62nd, 79th, 111th, 134th, 168th and 298th Divisions are tasked with clearing out the great pocket. On September 20th the 45th Infantry Division received orders to accelerate from the Priluki area to reach the Jagotin narrows. The 134th Infantry Division initially advanced to the south-east. Since September 21, both divisions have been subordinate to the LI. Army Corps of the 6th Army and are, so to speak, on loan to Army Group South. The heavy fighting that followed, which lasted until September 29, was characterized by desperate Soviet attempts to break out using four armored trains on the Kiev-Poltava railway that ran through the theater of operations, as well as ruthless infantry attacks. While the 45th ID attacked mainly from the east (Jagotin) to the west (Berezany), the 134th Infantry Division pushed into this area from the south-east and south. After several local crises, the Battle of Kiev ended in a heavy, but not decisive, defeat for the enemy. The 45th ID and 134th ID returned to Army Group Center, the new target was Moscow. Hitler and his OKW believed that all you had to do was march – a serious mistake! Both divisions were now under the Higher Command XXXIV, whose task was flank protection to the south and south-east for the 2nd Panzer Army. From September 30, both divisions marched off in a north-easterly direction. The route led via Priluki, Konotop, Putiwil to the Krupez/Rylsk area, which was reached around October 8th. In this area remained the divisions, torn wide apart, stuck in the mud until mid-November. Because on October 7th the first snow fell and until roads and paths became drivable again, they initially turned into morass. Apart from fighting with a stronger group of enemy forces that broke out of the Bryansk pocket between October 15 and 18. no major combat operations took place during this period. From November 7th we can finally go on again, but without winter equipment for people, weapons and vehicles and this at temperatures of already minus 20°C. The 134th Infantry Division now took a more northerly course, reached Dmitriev around 14 November with IR445 without contact with the enemy and then turned east towards Fatesh. From Fatesh the division advances to the north-east and comes into contact with combat again at Droskowo (36 km west-northwest of Livny). The opponent is thrown and on 25.11. Livny taken. The HK XXXIV now ordered its two divisions to target Yelez as their next target. The boundary between the two divisions – 134th ID on the left, 45th ID on the right – was the Ssossna. The 134th Infantry Division fought its way through Tschernowa, Schatowa, Kasaki to the area west of Jelets. Against increasing enemy resistance, the 45th Infantry Division advanced from Rylsk south past Livny, via Dubrowa, Krugloye, Strelezkoye into the area south of Yelez. The distance to the right neighbor, the 95th Infantry Division, was already more than 30 km. On the 4th/5th 12th, against bitter enemy resistance, 134th Infantry Division took the western and northern parts of…

A very nice early (rarely found 1927 issue)  Issued to Heinrich Suhre, from Hannover, born in 1.08.1909 and joined the NSDAP in August/October of 1930. The booklet was issued on the 24th of August 1931 in Munich and features a stamped Adolf Hitler Signature.  Suhre paid his NSDAP membership from 1931 till 1940 the booklet displays each corresponding payment to the Nazi Party.  —- According to page 22 of the booklet the entry states that from January of 1931 till the 1st of May 1932 – Suhre was the rank of Zellenleiter for Hannover – South.  The original political rank of Zellenwart was used to supervise local Nazi political leaders during a time when the Nazi Party was attempting to gain power in the Weimar Republic. After the establishment of Nazi Germany in 1933, the political position of Zellenleiter became a type of political strongman and was usually the highest Nazi official that the general population would have direct dealings with on a day-to-day basis. Uniform of a Zellenleiter below:     Suhre was also a member of the Sturm Abteilung :  SA Standarte 13 Hannover .  Interestingly, this Standarte in Hannover is covered online in the article about where they used to meet and was known as a local for clashes with Communists and Workers: KREUZSTRASSE: SA STURMLOKAL – A TAVERN WHERE THE SA MET “Situated at Kreuzkirchhof, the “Zur Kreuzklappe” restaurant, which opened in 1887, enjoys a very dubious reputation in the 1920s and, it being on the fringe of the local red light district, is frequented by criminals and prostitutes. Even before 1933, the tavern was renamed “Restaurant Alt-Hannover” and becomes the notorious meeting place for SA-Sturm 3/13. The owner advertised himself as a PG (a “Parteigenosse”, i.e. a party comrade) and SA man. Within the Hanoverian workers’ movement, they still use the tavern’s old name but with just a slight change: “Haken-Kreuzklappe” [Hakenkreuz = swastika]. According to the social democratic newspaper ” Volkswillen”, it is the “worst dive in Hanover”. At the beginning of 1932, the newspaper repeatedly alleges that Nazis are organising “regular police patrols” against political opponents from his pub. The same happens on Ascension Day in 1932 in neighbouring Calenberg Neustadt: an SA-Sturm stationed at the “Duvestübchen” [a pub] on Duvestrasse engages in a street battle with left-wing workers in front of the pub and surrounding streets. Three of them are wounded, some seriously, by gunfire. When the police arrive, the handguns have vanished.”     Included in this booklet is a loose but very rare document issued by Hannover SA Standarte 13 – Hand signed signed by Standartenführer August Ihle (seen below in the middle of the Picture). The document allows Scharführer Suhre to wear the “Ärmelstreifen für altgediente SA-Männer” which is a 4mm armband only worn by long serving SA Men – this document is quite rare.    What happened to Suhre?  He joined the Wehrmacht in 1941, married and was later captured by US Troops.  According to the Genealogy research his grave is located in Hannover, Stöckener Friedhof. He died in February 2008 at 98 years old.  Comments: An interesting booklet, usually these are quite boring in terms of history, the average party member did not serve as a Zellenleiter this makes this one quite interesting, along with the SA service in Hannover paints a picture of the political chaos of the time.