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    WWII German Passport – Masseur Barbarrosaplatz Berlin – 1936 – Berliner Aloysius Weinert

    Original price was: £125.00.Current price is: £72.00.

    Original Third Reich Passport Masseur who worked in Barbarrosaplatz.

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    WWII German Army Civilian Service ID – For Foreigner – Dienstausweis für Nichtdeutscher – Heeresstandortverwaltung Posen – 1940 to 1944 – Rare Version

    Original price was: £134.00.Current price is: £77.00.

    Dienstausweis für Nichtdeutscher Heinrich Stzjiewski Worked from date of issue in 1940 till January 1945 at the Heeresstandortverwaltung Posen.  

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    WWII German BDM League of German Girls – RLA Reich Youth Sports Badge – Leistungsbuch – Original

    Original price was: £182.00.Current price is: £142.00.

    An ID issued to 14 year old for the award of the Reich Youth Sports Badge.

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    WWII German Third Reich 25 Years Service Silver Medal & Certificate Lehrer Erich Liepe Berlin Zehlendorf 1939

    Original price was: £158.00.Current price is: £134.00.

    Original 25 Silver Medal for Service to the State. With the Original Stamped 25 Year Award Certificate named to a Berlin Teacher Erich Liepe in Berlin district of Zehlendorf in January of 1939

  • WWII German Army Soldbuch Grouping – Uffz Wilhelm Schamp – 37 Close Combat Days – Close Combat Clasp Silver – 96 Infanterie Division – Rare

    £2,137.00

    Soldbuch issued to Wilhelm Schamp from Dannenberg/Elbe Germany. He served with: Infanterie Regiment 283  Grenadier Regiment 283  Panzerjäger Abteilung 196  All part of the 96 Infantry Division of the Wehrmacht (History Below)  The 96th Infantry Division was set up on September 25, 1939 at the Bergen military training area near Celle during World War XI as the 5th Wave Division. The division was equipped with Czech equipment; in addition to WWXI, the personnel came from WWVI and II as well as the HGr. South. From 1941 the division was equipped with German equipment. The division should be ready for field use by November 1, 1939. The 13th companies of the infantry regiments were heavy mortar companies. After the formation, the division moved to the Upper Rhine in December to secure the German western border. From May 10th the division took part in the western campaign. She crossed the Ardennes and advanced via Sedan to Laon. Here the division turned south and marched via Chemin des Dames, the Marne and Loire to Bourges. Between August 1940 and February 1941 the division was on leave. On April 2, 1941, the 13th companies of the infantry regiments became IG companies, which were taken over by the 246th Infantry Division. After re-enlistment, the division was in France. From July 1941 she took part in the Russian campaign. The division marched via Vilna, Disna and Opochka into the area west of Lake Ilmen. Fighting on the Luga followed in August. In September the division advanced across the Ischora to the Neva near Leningrad. In 1942 the division was reduced to six battalions (dissolution of I./283, I./284 and III./287). From October 1941 to February 1942 there were fighting between Schliselburg and the mouth of the Tosna south of Lake Ladoga and at the Volkhov Pocket near Mostki. The division was then deployed in 1942 at Maluska, Pogostje, Winjagolowo and Konduja. From December 1942 to February 1943, the division was deployed in the winter battle in the “bottleneck” between Shlisselburg and Mga, on the southern bank of Lake Ladoga, on the Neva, on the Sinjavino Heights and on the Popostje pocket – defensive battles followed until the end of 1943 Volkhov and on the Tigoda. In January 1944 the division was transferred to Ukraine and deployed in the Shepetovka-Starkonstantinov area. From March to December there were retreating battles in the Hube Pocket to the south. After breaking through to the west at Kamenets-Podolsk, the division was refreshed in June 1944. This was followed by costly retreats across skala into the Tarnopol area and defensive battles on the Tarnopol-Lemberg runway. By the end of the year the division withdrew via the area south of Lemberg and via Sanok to the Small Beskydy Mountains southeast of Tarnow. In January 1945 the division moved to Hungary and took part in the advance south west of the mouth of the Gran. Defensive battles followed south of the Danube, in the Tata-Tarjan-Bajna-Sarisap-Coslnok area, where the division was surrounded. After breaking out of the pocket in Noden in March 1945, the division marched across the Danube and then west into the Pressburg area. The retreat continued north past Vienna to Lower Austria in the Waldviertel and the Freistadt area, where the division was taken prisoner by the Americans at the end of the war. Some of the division’s members were then handed over to the Red Army. Awards. Wounds Badge in Black – December 1941 Iron Cross Second Class – March 1942 Infantry Assault Badge – February 1942 Wounds Badge in Gold – August 1944 Close Combat Badge in Bronze & Silver Grade – September 1944 Iron Cross First Class – January 1945 – Panzerjäger Abt 196 Close Combat Days 37 Total Days Entered in the Soldbuch  11.8.1941 – Meschink 14.8.1941 – Teschelino 29.81941 – Proletarskaja 30.8.1941 – Gorkj 1.9.1941 – Mercedesstern 13.1.1944 – Chrolln 14.1.1944 – “ 15.1.1944 – “ 19.1.1944 – Labun 20.1.9144 – “ 21.1.1944 – “ 22.1.1944 – “ 23.1.1944 – “ 27.1.1944 – Chrolln 28.1.1944 – Medwedewka 29.1.1944 – “ 30.1.1944 “ 1.2.1944 Höhe 299.3 9.2.1944 – Höhen vor Medwedewka 10.2.1944 – “ 11.2.1944 – Medwedewka 12.2.1944 – “ 23.2.1944 – “ 4.3.1944 – Labun 6.3.1944 – G (?) 7.3.1944 – Saluffe 12.3.1944 – (?) 21.3.1944 – Alopin (?) 22.3.1944 – T (?) 25.3.1944 – I (?) aska 26.3.1944 – (?) 27.3.1944 – (?) 3.4.1944 T (?) 10.4.1944 – M (?) 14.4.1944 – Nagor (?) 15.4.1944 “ 24.4.1944 “ Only 9,500 Close Combat Clasps in Silver were Awarded, Schamp is on the archive award list (See Below).  The grouping comes with all the pictured items from Schamp, including his matching dog tag and Necklace. Also included are his other papers, which includes a certificate from the Division. Very rare Soldbuch. 

  • WWII German Waffen SS-Soldbuch – Cossack Waffen-Unterführer Waldimar Makarow – XIV SS Cossack Cavalry Corps – Russian Born Volunteer – SS Hauptamt Berlin 1944 – Ultra Rare

    £2,137.00

    Waffen SS Soldbuch issued to Russian born (11.1918 – Orthodox Religon) Waldimar Makarow. The Soldbuch was issued with the SS Hauptamt (SS Main Office) in Berlin Germany, the specific department corresponding with the stamps: A I 2 – Personnel Department. Issued in Berlin on the 1st of September 1944. Makarow was assigned to the XIV SS Kossak Kavallerie Korps Unit History  The XV SS Cossack Cavalry Corps (German: XV. SS-Kosaken-Kavallerie-Korps) was a World War II cavalry corps of the Waffen-SS, the armed wing of the German Nazi Party, primarily recruited from Cossacks. It was originally known as the XIV SS Cossack Cavalry Corps from September 1944 to February 1945. During the Russian Civil War (1917–1923), Cossack leaders and their governments generally sided with the White movement. After the Soviets emerged victorious in the civil war, a policy of decossackization was instituted between 1919 and 1933, aimed at the elimination of the Cossacks as a separate cultural and political group. Cossacks in exile joined other Russian émigré groups in Central and Western Europe, while those in Russia endured continual repression. In October 1942, the Germans established a semi-autonomous Cossack District in the Kuban. This put them in a position to recruit Cossacks from these areas and mobilize them against the Red Army. This was in contrast to soldiers of the ROA, who had been recruited from POW camps and Red Army defections, most soldiers of the German Cossack units had never been citizens of the Soviet Union.[ In the summer of 1944 Heinrich Himmler and the SS became interested in gaining control of the 1st Cossack Division under Helmuth von Pannwitz. In July 1944 Himmler discussed the organization of a Cossack fighting unit in the Bialystok region and requested from Hitler, that the Cossack Division would be placed in the organizational structure of the SS. On 26 August 1944 he met with Pannwitz and his Chief of Staff. Himmler planned to gather all Cossack units to form a second Cossack division and proposed the transfer of the 1st Cossack division to the SS. All units were to be placed under von Pannwitz’s command. Though initially reluctant, Pannwitz eventually agreed to place his division under SS administration. Both German cadre and Cossack troops would retain their traditional uniforms and their Wehrmacht or Cossack rank. Pannwitz hoped to raise his unit’s low morale and to receive more supplies and better equipment. The Cossacks did not wear the SS runes or receive any ideological indoctrination. In September 1944, the XIV SS Cossack Cavalry Corps was established on the basis of the 1st Cossack Division. The Cossacks fought an engagement against the Red Army on 25 December 1944 near Pitomača to prevent them from crossing the Drava River. The commander of the 5th Don Cossack Cavalry Regiment was awarded the Iron Cross, 1st class after the battle. In November 1944 the 1st Cossack Division was taken over by the Waffen-SS. The SS Führungshauptamt reorganized the division and used further Cossack combat units from the army and the Ordnungspolizei to form a 2nd Cossack Cavalry Division. Both divisions were placed under the command of the XV SS Cossack Cavalry Corps on 1 February 1945. With the transfer of the Volunteer Cossack-Stamm-Regiment 5 from the Freiwilligen-Stamm-Division on the same day the takeover of the Cossack units by the Waffen-SS was complete. According to Samuel J. Newland, the Corps, composed of the 1st and 2nd Cavalry Brigades and the 1st and 2nd Division, was actually formed on 25 February 1945, when it was officially created by the High Command. The Corps was initially subordinated to the Army Group F in Croatia, and since March 1945 to the Army Group E in Croatia. During their time there, they were known by the locals as “Čerkezi” (“Circassians”), despite the Corps’ Cossack ethnic makeup. The Corps supported the German offensive Operation Spring Awakening in Hungary by launching an offensive against a Soviet bridgehead at Valpovo on the Drava. During April the Corps was engaged in minor actions and then began to withdraw from Yugoslavia on 3 May 1945. The superior officers had concluded that the Corps should fight their way back to Austria in order to be captured by the British. According to one source Pannwitz felt that the West would have great use for the Corps as a military anti-Bolshevik eastern formation. The 2nd Division covered the withdrawal of the 1st Division against partisan forces. Unaffected by the German surrender on 8 May and partisan demands to surrender, the Cossack units continued fighting on their way to the British zone. On 10 May Pannwitz surrendered to the British, while the last Division elements reached the British zone on 13 May 1945. Interesting entries in the Soldbuch:  Walther PP Pistol Interesting entry, from SS Hauptamt that the owner of the Soldbuch is allowed to wear a Uniform of the Wehrmacht with the rank Oberfeldwebel. Comes with a photo of Marakow wearing Cossack insignia. Very rare photograph. Final Comments Incredibly rare document, this is one of small minority of IDs issued to members of the Cossack Volunteers. The Units page – under the paper it seems the same thing is written underneath. I do not think we will ever have another one of these in stock. If you are anyway a serious Cossack / Volunteer Collector/researcher then this is likely one of your only chances to get anything like this, many patches and insignia were produced, but hardly any of these IDs have surfaced or survived.    

  • WWII Allied Made Propaganda For German Army in Normandy 1944 – General von Schlieben Captured – Surrender of Cherbourg – Rare

    £109.00

    This is a very uncommon propaganda leaflet in around A5 size. Referring to General von Schlieben who was captured in Cherbourg, he can be seen wearing the German Helmet and Knights Cross in France, Fort du Roule 1944 Surrender.

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    WWII German Reichsarbeitsdienst ID – RAD Arbeitsmaid Alice Bittermann – 1941 Magdeburg

    Original price was: £77.00.Current price is: £61.00.

    The RAD was divided into two major sections, one for men (Reichsarbeitsdienst Männer – RAD/M) and the voluntary, from 1939 compulsory, section for young women (Reichsarbeitsdienst der weiblichen Jugend – RAD/wJ). The RAD was composed of 33 districts each called an Arbeitsgau (lit. Work District) similar to the Gaue subdivisions of the Nazi Party. Each of these districts was headed by an Arbeitsgauführer officer with headquarters staff and a Wachkompanie (Guard Company). Under each district were between six and eight Arbeitsgruppen (Work Groups), battalion-sized formations of 1200–1800 men. These groups were divided into six company-sized RAD-Abteilung units. Conscripted personnel had to move into labour barracks. Each rank and file RAD man was supplied with a spade and a bicycle. A paramilitary uniform was implemented in 1934; beside the swastika brassard, the RAD symbol, an arm badge in the shape of an upward pointing shovel blade, was displayed on the upper left shoulder of all uniforms and great-coats worn by all personnel. Men and women had to work up to 76 hours a week.

  • WWII Original German Army Postcards – Spähtrupp – Berlin – Infantry Knows No Limits

    £45.00

    Original set