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Wehrmacht Licence – Härtwig – Halftrack (10 Ton)
Halftrack Licence (10 Ton)
Note Halftrack on the rear is mentioned!
Wehrmacht Issue with nice photo.
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Personal ID – Apprentice Ott – Siemens (Schaltwerk) – Berlin 1945 – S-Bahn Ticket Berlin 45! (Sold)
Apprentice at the Siemens-Schuckertwerke AG (Schaltwerk) in Berlin-Siemensstadt.
Ott was an apprentice with the German electrical engineering company Siemens. The Schuckert works in Berlin concentrated on the manufacture of material for the war industry such as munitions to large aircraft motors.
It is unclear what happened to Günther Ott during or after the war, his work identification was used to enter the Siemens facility in Siemensstadt. Ott’s time card shows that he was permitted to enter the so-called Schaltwerk. He was also issued with an identification to use the Berlin S-Bahn system.
The identification card was issued in the early months of 1945 to essential workers as the train system was not running ist usual time table. To board the train there was a requirement to have an ID issued by your place of work, Ott’s permit was issued on 25.01.1945 at the Schaltwerk in Berlin Siemensstadt.
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Arbeitsbuch für Ausländer – Nikolai Bigunow – Berlin Zehlendorf – OST Worker Insignia Visible
Nikolai Bigunow was born on the 9th of May 1920 in Odessa in Ukraine. His Work Book, states he is from the occupied eastern sector and that his nationality is not fully known, but to be considered as a Eastern Worker.
On Bigunow’s picture his patch on his jacket can be clearly seen, OST. Standing for Ostarbeiter/Eastern Worker. The Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Reich Main Security Office) created a set of guidelines to be followed when dealing with Ostarbeiter. Seen as enemies of the German state, they were to be taken by forceful means and shipped via train to Germany. In Germany, they were treated like prisoners, kept in camps that were guarded. Bigunow was sent to work for a company in Berlin-Weißensee in mid 1943, by 1945 he was sent to a Camp in Berlin Zehlendorf where he worked for a building company.
This item is featured in a book on the Battle of Berlin 1945, featured alongside 100s of other IDs and items from Berlin.
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Wehrmacht Licence – Leutnant Lacroix – Infanterie Regiment 118 (36 ID) – Killed in Action
Army Licence to Lt Erich Lacroix.
Really impressive photo of this young man, who is wearing the 118 on his shoulder board. He was combat decorated, with at least the Iron Cross Second Class.
He served with:
Infanterie Regiment 118 (36 ID)
Defensive battles along the Lama followed by mid-January 1942 and then by February 23, 1942, the withdrawal to the barbarian position east of Wosskressenskoje. The division stayed here until the end of July 1942, when it had to withdraw to more favorable bases on Gshat near Trisseli – Barsuki – Prilepy. From October the division, especially its infantry and artillery, could be refreshed close to the front. From November 24th to the beginning of January 1943 she took part in the defense of the Russian winter offensive against the front arc of the 9th Army east of Sychevka – west of Rzhev – on both sides of Belyj. Then the division was used for defense in the area south of Karmanowo. From March 1 to March 22, the division withdrew in the course of the “Buffalo Movement” detachment operation to a shortened defensive section of Army Group center northeast of Smolensk, in line around Dorogobusch north of Duchowtschina around Welisch. The division was withdrawn from March 24th, as reserve 9th Army, and gathered in the area west of Dorogobusch. On March 27, the command of the Army High Command to de-motorize the division, which was then carried out from May 1, 1943 to June 1943 in the Dorogobush area (Army Group Center). The division was then used in the defensive front on the Optucha east of Orel. After the Russian breakthrough began, the division had to retreat to the Oka and then further to the area south of Jelnja in heavy fighting.
According to his official record, he was hit in the head from a piece of exploding artillery. How is Wehrmacht Licence, which looks weathered was removed from his body or person is unknown. A sad reminder of the life of young soldier.
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Heer Wehrpass – Uffz Meister – Radfahr Aufklärungs-Abteilung 34 (34 Inf Div) KIA 1941
Issued to Uffz Meister he was in the following units:
Kavallerie Regiment 6
Radfahr Aufklärungs-Abteilung 34 (34 Inf Div)
After minor preliminary battles, the division was relocated to the Eifel at the turn of the year 1939/1940. With the beginning of the western campaign on May 10, 1940, the division crossed the Our near Wormeldingen and occupied the city of Luxembourg. Then the division turned via Longwy-Dudelange and stayed here as flank protection in front of the Maginot Line. During the second phase of the campaign, the “Battle of France”, the division fought its way to the Aisne, forced the river to cross at Guignicourt and stormed east from Reims to the Marne and then to the Loire to the Allier. After the armistice, the division secured the demarcation line and moved in July 1940 as an occupying force in the area southeast of Boulogne. In September 1940, the division moved to the Channel Coast for coastal protection. In December 1940, the third battalions were given up and replaced for realignments. At the end of May 1941 the division was transported to Poland by rail and made ready for the Russian campaign in front of Brest-Litowsk. On June 22, 1941, the division broke through the border fortifications south of Brest-Litovsk and then advanced across the Berezina to the Dnieper south of Mogilev. The division then crossed the Ssosh and then the Dessna north of Bryansk in early September. From October 1941, the division participated in the advance on Moscow and the occupation of Brjansk. This was followed by the advance to Ugra in the Torwakowo area and further over the Protwa and Nara to the Tarutino area in the Malojaroslavets area. Here the division met the Russian counter-offensive, so that they had to retreat to the Shanja position west of Medyn amid heavy defensive battles.
Trained on:
K98 Rifle, MG34, P08
Awards:
- Westwall Medal
- Iron Cross Second Class – cert included signed by Generallt Behlendorf (Kings Cross Holder)
- Assault Badge – Cert included
He was killed in action in October 1941 in Russia.
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Heer Soldbuch – Ass.Arzt Marten – Grenadier Regiment 947 (359 Inf Div) – Wounded in action 1944 – (hold)
Heer Soldbuch opened in 1939.
For the Johannes Marten, who started his career as a normal Soldier, he worked his way up to be the Assistant Doctor!
He was a medical student, who finished and became a doctor during the war.
He served with many units, the Soldbuch is full of entries!
Interesting points:
He was a doctor in Berlin in a military hospital for some time.
He spent two short stints deployed:
Panzerjäger Abteilung 193
Grenadier Regiment 947 (359 Inf Div)
From the end of April until the start of the major Russian offensive against Army Group Northern Ukraine on July 14, 1944, positional and defensive battles followed in this section of the front. During the Russian major attack, the division was not in the main direction of the enemy attack, but had to deliver parts to neighboring units or to relieve them. These deployed units (Grenadier Regiment 949 new, Divisions Fusilier Battalion, parts of Grenadier Regiment 948 and Field Replacement Battalion 359) fought at Chorobrow and Chorosciec as well as at Josefowka and Augustowka. On July 20, 1944, the divisional front at Cecowa was breached and a detachment was achieved by crossing several rivers into the Molotow – Zalesce area. Parts of the division were encircled and could only escape by leaving their heavy weapons behind. On July 22nd, the division reported a trench strength of 600 men. After the formation and defense of a bridgehead at Zalesce and successful defensive battles at Ruda and Mlyniska, a night crossing over the Dniester was successful without losses. After gathering the division north-east of the city of Stryj on the Stanislaus – Lemberg railway line, the division placed itself under subordination to the “Group Balck” (= XXIV. And XXXXVIII. Panzer Corps) via Zyrawa – Oblaznica – Daszaza – Stryj – Lubience – Synowodzko in the area of Skole off. Here the division was able to spend a few quiet days refreshing themselves within the Hunyadi position on both sides of the pass road to secure the Carparthen without any significant contact with the enemy.
From August 19, the division was relocated from the Lawoczne station (approx. 45 km south of Skole) via Hungary and Slovakia to the area on both sides of the Tarnow-Debica road west of the Wisloka and east of the Dunajew to the LIX. Army Corps.A nice Soldbuch full of entries, could be further researched!
Awards:
- Wounds Badge in Black
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Heer Soldbuch – Gefreiter Georg Hiebl – Heeres Festungs Artillerie Abteilung 1310 (7. Armee) – Austria 1945 – Captured (Sold)
Heer Soldbuch
Complete with picture, this Soldbuch was issued in 1943.
Hiebl served with:
Heeres Festungs Artillerie Abteilung 1310 (7. Armee)
A heavy fortress artillery unit, they fought with the 7th Army and were in Austria in 1945.
Issued a K98 Rifle
He was captured and survived the war.
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Heer Wehrpass – Schütze Lamy – Infanterie Regiment 673 (376 Inf Div) – Death Letter – Signature Generalleutnant Stümpfl
Heer Wehrpass issued to Johann Lamy.
He served with the RAD with Army Group North behind the front lines.
A few pages are missing inside this Wehrpass, although luckily its not he important ones!
On the May 1945, he joined:
Infanterie Regiment 673 (376 Inf Div)
It was reformed in the Netherlands in April 1943. Returning to the Eastern Front in November 1943, the division fought in the Ukraine before withdrawing to Romania.
Lamy was killed in June 1942, not long after he arrived on the front.
A postcard to his mother was wrote short before he was killed, he describes 5 hard days of marching up to 55 KM per day. He mentions the front, and that people are falling away. They are pushing further and further… A sad story and could be further translated.
A letter to his mother from his officer stated:
… during an attack on an enemy nest of resistance. A bullet hit his left side, a few mins later he died… He was true to his Oath…
A letter to his mother from the Commander of Vienna, Generalleutnant Heinrich Stümpfl wrote to her giving his condolences, the document is hand signed.
Interestingly Generalleutnant Heinrich Stümpfl was hailed as a ‘resistance fighter’ evidence that he had in fact worked against the persecution of individuals lead to him getting an award after he passed away. Seen below:
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SS Soldbuch – Erwin Keller – SS Panzer Artillerie Regiment 5 (SS Panzer Division Wiking) – 6 Combat Awards! (Sold)
SS Soldbuch to Erwin Keller
Keller spent from 1941 till March 1945 (!) with the:
SS Panzer Artillerie Regiment 5 (SS Panzer Division Wiking)
The division took part in Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union, advancing through Galicia, today’s Ukraine. In August the division fought for the bridgehead across the Dnieper River. Later, the division took part in the heavy fighting for Rostov-on-Don before retreating to the Mius River line in November. In the summer of 1942, the unit took part in Army Group South’s offensive Case Blue, aimed at capturing Stalingrad and the Baku oilfields. In late September 1942, Wiking participated in the operation aimed to capture the city of Grozny, alongside the 13th Panzer Division. The division captured Malgobek on 6 October, but the objective of seizing Grozny and opening a road to the Caspian Sea was not achieved. The division took part in the attempt to seize Ordzhonikidze. The Soviet Operation Uranus, the encirclement of the 6th Army at Stalingrad, brought any further advances to a halt and later necessitated a retreat from the Caucasus.
After Operation Winter Storm, the failed attempt to relieve the 6th Army, Erich von Manstein, the commander of Army Group South, proposed another attempt towards Stalingrad. To that end, Wiking entrained on 24 December; however, by the time it arrived on 31 December, it was forced to cover the withdrawal of Army Group A from the Caucasus towards Rostov-on-Don. The division escaped through the Rostov gap on 4 February.
1943–1945
In early 1943, the division fell back to Ukraine south of Kharkov, recently abandoned by the II SS Panzer Corps commanded by Paul Hausser. In the remaining weeks of February, the Corps, including Wiking, engaged Mobile Group Popov, the major Soviet armoured force named after Markian Popov during the Third Battle of Kharkov. As the post-Stalingrad Soviet offensive exhausted itself, Manstein was able to stabilize the front.
In 1943, Herbert Gille was appointed to command the division. The SS Regiment Nordland, along with its commander Fritz von Scholz, were removed from the division and used as the nucleus for the new SS Division Nordland. The Finnish Volunteer Battalion was also withdrawn and they were replaced by the Estonian Battalion Narwa.
In the summer of 1943, the division, along with the 23rd Panzer Division, formed the reserve for Manstein’s Army Group in Operation Citadel. Immediately following the German failure in the Battle of Kursk, the Red Army launched two counter-offensives, Operation Kutuzov and Operation Rumyantsev. Wiking, together with the SS Divisions Totenkopf and Das Reich, was sent to the Mius-Bogodukhov sector. The Soviets took Kharkov on 23 August and began advancing towards the Dnieper.
In October the division was pulled out to a quiet sector of the line just as the Dnieper–Carpathian Offensive overtook Army Group South. In the aftermath of the fall of Kiev in late December 1943, the 1st and 2nd Ukrainian Fronts of the Red Army encircled several German divisions during the Battle of the Korsun–Cherkassy Pocket in January 1944. Over 60,000 soldiers, including the Wiking division, were trapped along the Dnieper River. Roughly half of German forces broke out of the encirclement. Similar to other formations in the pocket, Wiking suffered heavy casualties and lost nearly all of its heavy equipment.
On 13 February 1945, the division was ordered west to Lake Balaton, where Oberstgruppenführer Sepp Dietrich’s 6th SS Panzer Army was preparing Operation Spring Awakening, an offensive at Lake Balaton. Gille’s remained as a support to the 6th SS Panzer Army during the beginning of the operation. Dietrich’s army made “good progress” at first, but as they drew near the Danube, the combination of the muddy terrain and strong Soviet resistance ground them to a halt. The division performed a holding operation on the left flank of the offensive, in the area between Lake Velence-Székesfehérvár. As the operation progressed, the division was engaged in preventing Soviet efforts at outflanking the advancing German forces. On 16 March, the Soviets forces counterattacked in overwhelming strength causing the Germans to be driven back to their starting positions. On 24 March, another Soviet attack threw the IV SS Panzer Corps back towards Vienna; all contact was lost with the neighbouring I SS Panzer Corps, and any resemblance of an organised line of defence was gone. Wiking withdrew into Czechoslovakia. The division surrendered to the American forces near Fürstenfeld, Austria on 9 May.
Equipment:
Many items issued, Pistol P38
He had Malaria in 1943, note his blood could not be used also as a result.
Security Stamps:
There are six control stamps in this Soldbuch, each one is worthy of research I will leave this to the next owner!
One is for March 1945, so he was with the Division in 1945.
Awards:
- Eastern Front Medal
- Wounds Badge in Black
- Drivers Badge in Bronze
- War Merit Cross 2nd Class with Swords
- Assault Badge
- Iron Cross Second Class
He was likely the driver of a Wespe, as they had these see below:
Summary, this sadly is missing page 1/2 and I am not certain that the picture is actually of him. That said, his name is there and with further research more details could be worked out. There is an abundance of nice Signatures in this SS Soldbuch, and likely many are for high award winners. Lastly, SS Soldbücher are becoming so rare that any of them with combat experience is getting so sought after they demand high prices.
