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Original WWII German Soldbuch – Feldwebel Paul Specht – Panzer Grenadier Regiment 26 – 24 Panzer Division – Heiligenbeil 1945 – Rare
£217.00Soldbuch to Feldwebel Paul Specht It seems his Soldbuch was issued as a replacement with: Panzer Ersatz und Ausbildungs Abteilung 10 in September of 1944. Specht spent time in Litzmanstadt (Lodz) in 1944, with: Panzer Grenadier Ersatz Batl 413, and it seems they went into action there January 1945 and were almost wiped out. https://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/InfErsBat/InfErsBat413-R.htm Specht was finally mobilised and sent via Marschbataillon Pz.Tr./307 to the 24. Panzer-Division, (Strength 300 Mann 4.1.1945 Wehrkreis X) Specht was assigned to his frontline unit of the 24 Pz Div – Panzer Grenadier Regiment 26 – 1 Schwadron Commanded by: Major Höhne (RK,DKIG) Killed in Action – February 19th, 1945 (Zinten, Heiligenbeil/Eastprussia, Germany) His Profile: https://www.tracesofwar.com/persons/6832/H%C3%B6hne-Georg.htm The division was then transported by rail, leaving behind its heavy weapons and armored vehicles, to Marienburg/Elbing (East Prussia). In the Elbing area, it was provisionally re-equipped with weapons and vehicles. The division was then deployed for defense and counterattacks in Southeast Prussia. From February 21 to March 27, 1945, defensive fighting followed in Ermland and the division withdrew to the bridgehead near Heiligenbeil. At the end of March 1945, the division was transported across the Baltic Sea to the Vistula Spit near Pillau. In mid-April, the remnants of the division (approximately 4,000 to 5,000 soldiers) were evacuated to Schleswig-Holstein, where it surrendered. Interesting Equipment: Peaked Visor Cap, Camo Kit Medals/Awards: Shooting Lanyard, 1st Class – 22.7.1941, Sports Badge in Bronze – 31.7.1941, War Merit Cross with Swords 20.4.1943. Fate: I have checked online resources and was not able to find what happened to Specht, although it could be that he made it back to Germany and surrendered, although there is no POW markings on the Soldbuch, a mystery that may later be solved…
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Original WWII German Soldbuch – Oberleutnant Ringel – Italy Milan 1943 – Grenadier Regiment 216 – 102 Inf Div – Iron Cross First Class – Escaped Pillau 1945 – POW Western Front! – Rare
£273.00Soldbuch issued in 1941 to Stone Mason Master from the area of Braunau (CZ), Arno Ringel. Frontline Units: Landesschützen Batl 554 The Landesschützen Battalion IV/VIII was established during mobilization on August 26, 1939, in Görlitz, in Wehrkreis VIII. The battalion was formed from the Infantry Replacement Battalion 406. The battalion was apparently deployed to Reichenbach during the winter of 1939/40. On April 1, 1940, the battalion was renamed Landesschützen Battalion 554. The battalion was subordinated to Division z.b.V. 408. From there, the battalion was deployed to the Commander of the VIII Prisoners of War. Feldkommandantur 1013 Field Command 1013 was established on August 22, 1943, in Military District VIII. Subsequently, the staff was subordinate to the General Staff of the 14th Army and then to the Plenipotentiary General of Italy and was located in Milan. Regiments Gruppe 348 – (102 Infanterie Division) Wounded in May 1944 – Bullet wound!! Interestingly the unit is mentioned here: https://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/Divisionsgruppe/DivGruppe216.htm Field Post Numbers: The units (Staff, Regimental Groups, and 14th Company) were all registered in the field post overview as parts of Divisional Group 216 from January 10, 1944. The 13th Company followed on March 22, 1944. The 13th and 14th Companies were then assigned to Regimental Group 348 from May 22, 1944. The regimental groups and the staff were renamed parts of Grenadier Regiment 216 between November 23 and 29, 1944. Grenadier Regiment 216 ( 216 Infanterie Division) – Seems this was his last unit. From August onward, the division continued its retreat across the Lessna, the Bug, and the Narew Rivers to the East Prussian defensive position until January 1945. At the end of 1944, Division Group 216 was renamed Grenadier Regiment 216. After the costly battle for East Prussia, the remnants of the division withdrew via Sensburg and Heilsberg to the Königsberg area. The division was finally smashed in the Rosenberg-Balga-Heiligenbeil pocket. Remnants managed to escape across the Frisches Haff to Pillau. These remnants continued fighting in Western Pomerania as Division Group 102, surrendering to the Americans at Trave on May 5, 1945. Awards: War Merit Cross with Swords, Second Class, Jan, 1944, April 1944 – Iron Cross Second Class and Wounds Badge in Black, February 1945 – Iron Cross First Class – 102 Infanterie Division. He seemed to have defaced the Nazi Symbol on the entry with a smoke. Equipment: P38 Pistol, Compass, Lamp Diverse Paperwork Included: Drivers Licence, Permit to Drive in Milan Italy with his own car. Entry for bottle of Sparking wine, and Führer Present in Hospital June 1944. Border Crossing Permit to Denmark in 1943 on his way to Copenhagen in May of 1943! A POW Paper Issued by the Military Government of France. Condition: Missing Pages 5 – 7 – Addresses , not really critical on this one as not much information was lost, its possible he used it to prove his residence for Repatriation in June 1945 (See below) Final Comments It seems that Ringel was an experienced and battle-hardened Officer, he was awarded the Iron Cross First Class in February of 1945, and he managed to escape the hell in Eastern Prussia (likely only with some sort of boat!) Making it back to the Western Front he was by June of 1945 he was in a French POW Camp, mentioned in pencil is that he was repatriated by the American XXII Corps to return to the former occupied region of the Czech Republic, where he was from. Overall this is a desirable Soldbuch of a frontline Officer who survived the Western and Eastern Fronts.
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Original WWII German Luftwaffe Soldbuch – Obergefreiter Heinrich Becker – Luftgau-Nachrichten-Regiment Moskau
£139.00Issued to Becker in 1942. He served as a radioman for sometime in the following units: Luftgau-Nachrichten-Regiment Moskau The Moscow Air District Signal Regiment was established in Minsk in November 1941 with two detachments for the Moscow Field Air District: Regiment Staff from Staff / 15th Air District Signal Regiment Staff I. Detachment as a new formation 1st (Signal) Company as a new formation 2nd (Signal) Company as a new formation 3rd (Signal) Company as a new formation 4th (Signal) Company as a new formation Staff II. Detachment from Staff V. / 2nd Air District Signal Regiment 8th (Heavy Air Signal) Company from 13th / 2nd Air District Signal Regiment 9th (Heavy Air Signal) Company from 15th / 2nd Air District Signal Regiment 10th (Heavy Air Signal) Company from 15th / 2nd Air District Signal Regiment 11th (Heavy Air Signal) Company from 32nd / Air District Signal Regiment 2 12th (Heavy Air Signal) Company as a New Formation The regiment was deployed with its headquarters and 1st Battalion in Minsk and 2nd Battalion in Pinsk. In April 1942, the regiment transferred the 9th Heavy Air Signal Company to the 2nd Air District Signal Regiment as the new 15th Company. The company was subsequently reorganized. In October 1942, the 4th Company was transferred to the 82nd Air District Signal Regiment as the 1st Company and was reorganized from the 4th / Air District Signal Regiment Kharkov in April 1943. In June 1943, the regiment was renamed the 27th Air District Signal Regiment. The 4th Company of the regiment was reorganized as the 4th / Air District Signal Regiment 25 in April 1944 and reorganized in Kolodishchi a month later. The regiment was disbanded on September 2, 1944. The 1st Company became Air Intelligence Operations Company 104, while the 10th – 12th Heavy Air Signaling Companies remained as independent companies. They were deployed in the Radom/Warsaw area in 1945, where they suffered heavy losses. Luftgau-Nachrichten-Regiment 2 The 2nd Air District Communications Regiment was formed on 30 September 1939 for the newly formed Air District 2. The regiment initially consisted of: 1st (Telephone) Company 2nd (Staff Communications) Company 3rd (Telephone and Telex Operations) Company 5th (Air Reporting) Company 17th (Replacement) Company Over the next two years the regiment was reinforced to include: Regimental Staff I (Operations) Department II (Air Reporting) Department III (Replacement) Department V (Air Reporting) Department with a total of 23 companies. The II (Air Reporting) Department, set up at the beginning of May 1940 with 8th – 10th Companies, relocated to the Black Forest after it was fully formed and was deployed in the 7th Army sector on the Upper Rhine. From June 15, 1940, the division participated in the 7th Army’s advance into Alsace. After the armistice, the division moved via Trier and Luxembourg to Etampes in France. From there, the division marched to the Atlantic coast and took up positions from the Spanish border to the mouth of the Loire. It would seem he was drafted into a replacement driving unit and was captured, and returned to his sector in Germany. July 1942 – Issued a K98 Rifle and Bayonet. Rare Merkblatt for Plants fit for Consumption !! Awarded: Trades Badge for Drivers – July 1944. Interesting ID for – French Occupied Zone in Germany Post War with period photo.
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Original WWII German Army Soldbuch – Stabsgefreiter Erich Pormann – 16th Army – Died in Berlin September 1945.
£213.00Soldbuch Issued to Erich Pormann from Berlin Lichtenberg in August 1939. Served in: Kraftfahr Abt 608 The Supply Column Division 608 was established on August 26, 1939, in Military District IV with seven large motorized columns as an army unit for the 16th Army. On December 1, 1942, the division was reorganized as Motorized Division 608 with six companies. In 1944/45, the division was subordinate to Army Group North. It seems that Pormann made it back to Germany – as he was in a hospital in Rudolstadt in Feb of 1945. Nice various entries for foreign weapon systems, as well as an Iron Portion, FührerPaket. There is a very interesting fold out at Infantry School – He was shooting the L.M.G 13 and Italian Rifle… It seems that Erich Pormann made it back to Berlin in 1945 his home city, where on the 10.09.1945 – he died in in Friedrichsfelde – due to a weak heart among other complications.
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Original WWII Kriegsmarine German Board Game – Klar zum Gefecht! – Flottenspiel – Rare
£519.00Original board game, not too common to find these complete nowadays. Seems to be all there, some damage to the box as seen.
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Original WWII German Board Game ” Das grosse Belagerungsspiel”
£445.00Original WWII German Board Game ” Das grosse Belagerungsspiel” As found condition, these seem to be quite rare with the original box.
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Original WWII German Wehrpass Leather Pouch
£49.00Here we have a Wehrpass Pouch Still closes although one side seems to be busted.
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WWII German Waffen SS Dog Tag – Erkennungsmarke – SS Division Wiking – Found in Ground – Original
Really interesting, original Dog Tag for a member of the Feld Ausbildungs Batl of the the Wiking. Found in this year in the ground. Price includes Shipping World Wide
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WWII German N.S Stahlhelm Bund Grouping – Dr Hennig -Hamburg – Rare Early ID Set!
£206.00Dr Walter Hennig born in 1894 in Hamburg. Served in WW1 as an Oberleutnant from 1914 till 1920! He was awarded the Following Awards: Iron Cross Second Class Iron Cross First Class Schaumburg-Lippe Cross The Hanseatic Cross KuK Military Cross Wounds Badge – Wounded Twice in WW1 He fought in France, Romania, Italy and Russia with the following unit: The Westfälisches Jäger-Bataillon Nr. 7 (7th Westphalian Jäger Battalion) of the Imperial German Army played a significant role in World War I, fighting on both the Eastern and Western Fronts. Initially part of the XX Army Corps, the battalion saw action at the Battle of Tannenberg on the Eastern Front before transferring to Italy and then the Western Front in 1918. The battalion was known for its elite status and experience in mountain warfare, having fought in various theaters including the Vogesen, Alps, and Karpathans. Here’s a more detailed look at the battalion’s involvement in WWI: Formation and Early Service: The battalion was formed in 1815 and saw action in the Franco-Prussian War and other conflicts before WWI. In 1914, it was garrisoned at Ortelsburg (modern Szczytno, Poland) and was part of the XX Army Corps. Eastern Front: The battalion initially served on the Eastern Front, including notable engagements like the Battle of Tannenberg. Shifting Fronts: In 1917, the battalion was transferred to Italy, and in the spring of 1918, it was moved to the Western Front. Elite Status and Training: Jäger battalions were considered elite units within the German Army, known for their training and experience in mountain warfare and raiding tactics. They were often used as assault troops and to revitalize sectors occupied by older troops. Distinctive Features: The 7th Jäger Battalion, like other Jäger units, was typically commanded by younger officers compared to their infantry counterparts. In 1932 he joined the NS Stahlhelm Bund, with Sturm 22 as the Doctor he left the NS Stahlhelm Bund in 1935. The documents are unique, as finding any higher ranks for the Stahlhelm Bund is nearly impossible, the books are usually nearly empty or have no photo. In this case, there is the NS Deutscher Frontkämpfer Bund ID with Uniformed picture.
