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WW1 German Soldbuch and Feldpost – Musketier Wiese – Reserve Infanterie Regiment Nr 205 – Iron Cross – Passchendaele 1917 Verdun (Sold)
Soldbuch issued to Wilhelm Wiese, born in 1896 in Prussia. Joined the Army in 1915. 15 x Feldpost matching – wrote from all over, I see stamps from Belgium also. Iron Cross in Verdun 1917 Reserve Infanterie Regiment Nr 205 44 Reserve Division The 44th Reserve Division initially fought on the Western Front, fighting on the Yser in October–November 1914 and storming Diksmuide in mid-November. It remained in positional warfare along the Yser until June 1915, and fought around Ypres in April–May. In June, it was transferred to the Eastern Front. It fought in the Gorlice-Tarnów Offensive, including the 1915 Battle of Lemberg and the assault on Brest-Litovsk. It then participated in the Serbian Campaign. After the campaign, it remained in reserve until returning to the Western Front in February 1916. It then fought in the Battle of Verdun. In July 1916 the division fought in the Battle of the Somme and then occupied various parts of the trenchline. In April 1917, it fought in the Second Battle of the Aisne, also known as the Third Battle of Champagne (and to the Germans as the Double Battle on the Aisne and in the Champagne). Thereafter, the division went into the trenchline around Verdun, remaining there until October 1917, when it joined the Battle of Passchendaele. The division then remained in the line mainly around Flanders until September 1917, when it went to Lorraine. It ended the war at the Germans’ Antwerp/Meuse position. In 1918, Allied intelligence rated the division as first class, although in 1917 it had noted shortcomings in the division’s performance as an assault division.
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WW1 German Soldbuch and Militärpass – Führerschein with Photo – Pass for the Saar – Uffz Gerwert – Iron Cross – Wounds Badge – 237 Infanterie Division (Offer Accepted)
Nice set with photo of Karl Gerwert from the Saar Area. Soldbuch – Complete full with entries Militärpass – Seems he fought with the Infanterie Regiment 60, IR 166, and by 1918 he was in a Flak Schweinwerfer unit. Fought in the Eastern Front, won the Iron Cross Second Class and was wounded, awarded the Wounds Badge in Black. Souvenir from a Czarist Soldier – took a letter from a Czarist Soldier. Wrote in 1917, a sad letter from a wife to the soldier Nikolai, Ivanovich Saltsov. Come home, she had to sell the pig, parcel is missing. Nice drivers licence so we can see how he looked.
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WWII Soviet Medal for Courage – ЗА ОТВАГУ – With Archive Research – 241st Rifle Division – Other medals
Korzhenko Alexey Ivanovich Date of Birth: 1921 Place of call: Teplik RVC, Ukrainian SSR, Vinnitsa region, Teplic district Date of call: 1940 Military rank: red army soldier Military unit: 1010th artillery regiment of the 241st rifle division Awards: Medal “For Courage” Order of the Red Star Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class Awarded for: The driver of the howitzer of the 6th battery of the Red Army soldier Alexei Korzhenko, for the fact that he repeatedly brought ammunition to direct point under enemy fire, the car was damaged twice by an enemy shell, but Korzhenko, despite the enemy fire, restored the car.
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WWII Soviet Medal for Courage – ЗА ОТВАГУ – With Archive Research – 6 Airborne Division – Jassy – Bratislava 1945 – Ukrainian
Fuzhenko Mikhail Filippovich Born: 1925 Private. Position, unit: pontoner – driver of the 35th Separate Personnel Pontoon-Bridge Battalion (TMP). Participation in combat operations to defend the USSR and the Patriotic War (where, when): from 06.44 to 08.44, 2 UV, 2 Separate anti-tank brigade 1323 IPTAP and 01.45 and to 04.45, 2 UV, 6 airborne division, 20 Guards. airborne regiment. Injuries (where, when): Slightly wounded on 08/26/1944 and 04/05/1945 – a blind shrapnel wound of the soft tissues of the left leg. Since what year in the Red Army: since March 1, 1944. By what military commissariat he was called: Krivoozersky, Odessa region. Summary of personal combat exploits or merit: Fuzhenko, an active participant in the Great Patriotic War since June 1944 in the position of a loading gun of the 1323th anti-tank artillery regiment, 2 separate anti-tank artillery brigade, was slightly wounded – a blind shrapnel wound to the left shoulder blade, near the city of Jassy, Romania. He was wounded for the second time near the city of Bratislava on April 5, 1945 – a slight blind shrapnel wound to the lower third of the left lower leg. The injuries did not interfere with a good work. Fuzhenko, as part of the gun crew, actively participated in the battles for the capture of the city of Jassy, Romania. Participated in the crossing of the rivers Gron, Vag. As an active participant in the Patriotic War, he deserves to be awarded the medal “For Courage”.
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WW1 German Militärpass Grouping – Machine Gunner MG08 – Landwehrman Friederich Zeller – Landwehr Infanterie Regiment Nr 6 – West and Eastern Front
Landwehrman Friederich Zeller born in 1896 in Baden, germany. Joined in September 1916 – Grenadier Regiment 109 – then arrived at frontline unit. Military Pass Book / Service Record – Landwehr Infanterie Regiment Nr 6 (3 Landwehr Division) – 10.1916 till 3.1917 – Trained on MG08 in July 1918 – Battle calendar: The division was put together on the Eastern Front with the mobilization on August 2, 1914 and was deployed here until September 1918. Then, in the final months of the war, she was transferred to the Western Front. After the armistice, the association returned home, where it was demobilized and finally dissolved in January 1919. 1914 August 24 – Battle of Nowe-Miasto August 27 – Battle of Gielniow August 29 – Battle of Nowo-Radomsk September 4 – Battle of Lipa-Niklas September 5 – Battle of Ciszyca-Gorna September 7-9 – Battle of Tarnavka September 17-18 – Battle of Wola-Ranizowska October 4-5 – Battles of Opatov and Radom October 9-20 – Battle of Ivangorod October 21-24 – Battles of Pilica 22 1915 to 28 October – battles on the Rawka 5 November to 15 December – battles near Czenstochowa 18 December – battles near Krasocin from 19 December – battles on the Lososina and Czarna 1915 to 12 May – battles on the Lososina and Czarna May 13th – battles at Tumlin and Kuzniaki May 14th – battles at Suchedniow May 16th – battles at Mirzec and Wierzbica May 17th – battles at Osiny May 18th – July 16th – trench warfare at Ilza July 17th – breakthrough battle at Sienno July 18-19 – Battles on the Ilzanka July 20-21 – Breakthrough of the idea of Ivangorod east of Zvolen July 22-28 – Reconnaissance battles on the Vistula July 29 – Vistula crossing July 30-August 7 – Battles on the east bank of the Vistula around Maziejowice August 8-18 – Pursuit battles between the Vistula and Bug August 19-24 – Battle of the Pulwa-Nurzec August 25-31 – Pursuit battles on the Bialowieska-Puszcza August 1-12 September – Battles on the Jasiolda and on the Zelvianka September 13-18 – Battle of Slonim September 19-24 – Battles on the upper Shchara-Servech from September 25 – Position battles on the upper Shchara-Servech 1916 Position battles Upper Shchara-Servech July 3 – 29 – Battle of Baranovichi 1917 – December 14 – Trench battles on the upper Shchara-Servech December 15 – 17 – Armistice from December 17 – Armistice 1918 – February 18 – Armistice 18 February to March 21 – fights in support of Ukraine March 22 to September 21 – occupation of Greater Russia September 27 to 30 – fighting on the Siegfried Front October 1 to 17 – defensive battle in Flanders October 18 to 24 – Rearguard fighting between Yser and Lys October 25th to November 1st – Battle of the Lys November 2nd to 4th – Rearguard fighting on both sides of the Scheldt November 5th to 11th – Retreat fighting in front of the Antwerp-Maas position from November 12th – Evacuation of the occupied territory and march home. 2. Battle Calendar – 1916 till 1919 – Russian Front, Western Front 3. WW2 1943 – Wehrmacht Ausmusterungsschein – Not mustered – with photograph of Zeller. 4. WW2 Heer Wehrpass – WW1 Service entered only. A nice grouping, WW1 service on both fronts, and was a MG08 Gunner, this is not easy found anymore especially with photos of the soldier.
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German BZ Newspaper – 30 June 1934 – “Night of the Long Knives” – Röhm-Putsch – Hitler – Obergruppenführer Lutze SA
£130.00Original – Rare Item Anything to do with the Night of the Long Knifes is very uncommonly found. The Night of the Long Knives (German: Nacht der langen Messer (help·info)), or the Röhm purge (German: Röhm-Putsch), also called Operation Hummingbird (German: Unternehmen Kolibri), was a purge that took place in Nazi Germany from 30 June to 2 July 1934. Chancellor Adolf Hitler, urged on by Hermann Göring and Heinrich Himmler, ordered a series of political extrajudicial executions intended to consolidate his power and alleviate the concerns of the German military about the role of Ernst Röhm and the Sturmabteilung (SA), the Nazis’ paramilitary organization, known colloquially as “Brownshirts”. Nazi propaganda presented the murders as a preventive measure against an alleged imminent coup by the SA under Röhm – the so-called Röhm Putsch. The primary instruments of Hitler’s action, which carried out most of the killings, were the Schutzstaffel (SS) paramilitary force under Himmler and its Security Service (SD), and Gestapo (secret police) under Reinhard Heydrich. Göring’s personal police battalion also took part in the killings. Many of those killed in the purge were leaders of the SA, the best-known being Röhm himself, the SA’s chief of staff and one of Hitler’s longtime supporters and allies. Leading members of the leftist-leaning Strasserist faction of the Nazi Party, including its leader Gregor Strasser, were also killed, as were establishment conservatives and anti-Nazis, such as former Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher and Bavarian politician Gustav Ritter von Kahr, who had helped suppress Hitler’s Munich Beer Hall Putsch in 1923. The murders of SA leaders were also intended to improve the image of the Hitler government with a German public that was increasingly critical of thuggish SA tactics. Hitler saw the independence of the SA and the penchant of its members for street violence as a direct threat to his newly gained political power. He also wanted to appease leaders of the Reichswehr, the German military, who feared and despised the SA as a potential rival, in particular because of Röhm’s ambition to merge the army and the SA under his own leadership. Additionally, Hitler was uncomfortable with Röhm’s outspoken support for a “second revolution” to redistribute wealth. In Röhm’s view, President Hindenburg’s appointment of Hitler as chancellor on 30 January 1933 had brought the Nazi Party to power, but had left unfulfilled the party’s larger goals. Finally, Hitler used the purge to attack or eliminate German critics of his new regime, especially those loyal to Vice-Chancellor Franz von Papen, as well as to settle scores with old enemies.[a] At least 85 people died during the purge, although the final death toll may have been in the hundreds,[b][c][d] with high estimates running from 700 to 1,000.[1] More than a thousand perceived opponents were arrested.[2] The purge strengthened and consolidated the support of the military for Hitler. It also provided a legal grounding for the Nazis, as the German courts and cabinet quickly swept aside centuries of legal prohibition against extrajudicial killings to demonstrate their loyalty to the regime. The Night of the Long Knives was a turning point for the German government.[3] It established Hitler as the supreme administrator of justice of the German people, as he put it in his 13 July speech to the Reichstag.
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WWII German Propaganda – For Red Army Soldier – Berlin 1945 – Rare
This is a very odd one, but depicting a sign to Berlin, is a sign of death. A rarer German one.
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WWII Red Army Propaganda – For German Soldiers – Generalfeldmarschall Paulus – Stalingrad – Front IIlustrierte – August 1944 – Mega Rare (Hold)
WWII Red Army Propaganda – For German Soldiers – Generalfeldmarschall Paulus – Stalingrad – Front IIlustrierte – August 1944 – Mega Rare Comments: this is an incredible item for a frame. Depicting German Officers and Generals in Soviet captivity and tries to undermine the German Soldier. I have not seen another of this edition, and editions of this Front newspaper propaganda are highly sought after propaganda due to the artwork.
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WWII German Wehrmacht Wehrpass – Oberfeldwebel Gröning – Grenadier Regiment 220 (58 Inf Div) – Born in Africa – Killed in Riga Offensive – Ergli 1944 – Super rare Volksdeutsche (Reserved)
A very interesting Wehrpass to Konrad Gröning born in Africa (Gobabis, South West Africa) in 1915. Joined as a volunteer in November of 1934 and resided in Berlin RAD Service – Berlin 1934 – Infanterie Regiment 8 (Machine Gun Company) It seems then he spent some time in various training and Luftwaffe units until June of 1943, 06.1943 – 02.1944 – Jäger Regiment 17 L – 02,1944 – 04.1944 – Grenadier Regiment 377 4.1944 – 08.1944 – Grenadier Regiment 220 – 58 Inf DivisionThe 58th Infantry Division was encircled and divided into battle groups and had to fight its way free. In the area of Wesenberg, the regiment was assembled and refreshed. The regiment was deployed again in February 1944. The regiment came to the Sirgalala Plains and was briefly attached to the 170th Infantry Division. The regiment came to Reval, where it served as a reserve unit for various divisions. On July 17, the regiment was transferred by rail to Dünaburg and from there marched towards Rokiskis. After a short, hard fight, the place can be conquered. From July 25, the regiment dug in here for defense. But on August 7th the town had to be evacuated again and retreat west towards Friedrichstadt. It then turned north into the wooded area north of Pukini. On August 10, the regiment was then pushed into the front at Memelbogen near Pecekalene. Medals: Wounds Badge in Black , War Merit Cross 2nd Class Trained on: MG08, K98, Luger P08, MG13, Handgrenade 24, MG0124, Mg 15, Promoted to Oberfeldwebel – 10.1942 He was killed in the Riga Offensive in August of 1944. Buried at the side of the road at Gut Samali on the main road Riga Madonas near Ergli. Although the German records say he is now buried as an unknown soldier in Riga Cemetery. Interestingly, we have for sale a set of Soviet Awards found in the same battlefield East of Riga. Comments: Super rare to find a Wehrmacht Soldiers Wehrpass born in Africa. Very nice example of a Wehrmacht Wehrpass, with uniform photo.
