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WWII German Min Photo Album Leipzig KDF Wagen Volkswagen Beetle Art Museums Streets with Flags
£183.00An interesting original album of a civilian in Leipzig. Many street photos with the Nazi era banners. The most interesting photo by far is of the KdF Wagen.
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WWII German Army Soldbuch – Wehrmacht Uffz Munz – Panzerjäger Abt 243 – Super Normandy 243 ID – Kampfgruppe Gneisenau – Fought 82nd Airborne – Cherbourg France – Iron Cross & Assault Badge – Lucky Soldier – Super Rare
£770.00Very hard to find such a good Normandy related Soldbuch to this division, which came into action right on D-Day! Listing took from original sale is very well done and I have added to it below: Soldbuch to Unteroffizier Franz Münz. First issue from April 1940. Münz was trained as a Heeresflak soldier and then served with the 1. Kompanie of Fla-Bataillon 59, which fought with the 29.ID in the Western campaign. He took a bullet in his left lung in France during the Summer of 1940. His hospitals include Bourges and Orléans, and he was released from hospital in January 1941. The wound might have been considered an accident first, but January 1943, Münz was treated for this same wound again and he finally received a Verwundetenabzeichen. After a long time with reserve units and Landesschützen-Bataillon 604 in Frankfurt am Main, Münz returned to the front with Fla-Bataillon (mot.) 607, and then the 3. (Fla) Kompanie of Panzerjäger-Abteilung 243 in 1944. His Kompanie was armed with 2 cm Flak guns, but other weaponry of the Pz.Jg.Abt.243 included fourteen Marder 38 and ten StuG III. With the 243.ID, Münz experienced D-Day on the Cotentin peninsula in Normandy and very soon began fighting against the Allied paratroopers near Saint-Mère-Église alongside the 91. Luftlande division. The divisional commander was already killed on D-Day +1. After less than two weeks of intense fighting, the 243.ID was pushed back by the 9th US ID and the 82nd Aiborne and cut off from the main German force, retreating to Cherbourg and destroyed there by the end of June. On 27th of June, Münz earned the Allgemeines Sturmabzeichen for the fighting in Normandy. He then avoided capture or worse and was among the smaller parts of the division who escaped from the Cotentin encirclement through the south. He fought with the remains of the 243.ID combined with the 77.ID at Saint-Lô, and received a promotion to Unteroffizier on 1st of August and also the EKII on the same date for his actions in Normandy. Panzerjäger-Abteilung 243 (Pz.Jg.Abt.243) : Kdr : Oberleutnant Franz Fallnich HQ/Gefechtsstand : La Commanderie Stab – La Commanderie (6 kilometers east of Les Pieux) (13 May) The Panzerjäger Abteilung had 14 Marder 38 and 10 StuG III.7 They had been sent to the division in March 1944.8 Also the battalion had a company with twelve 2 cm Flak guns.9 One of these was on tracked chassis, while two were motorized. Panzerjäger-Abteilung 243 : (Oberleutnant Franz Fallnich – CP: La Commanderie) 1. Kp (CP: Aux-Petits) 2. Kp (CP: Le-Pont-aux-Moines) 243. Infanterie-Division formed as a Bodenständige-Division in 1941. (Strength on 1st May 1944 11,529 + at least 442 HiWis) Commanded by Generalleutnant Heinz Hellmich, on 1st May 1944 the Division’s strength was listed as 11,529 + at least 442 HiWis. Their heavy equipment, such as artillery pieces and anti-tank guns, tended to be obsolete models or captured Czech, French, and Russian weapons of varied effectiveness. Despite all the disadvantages listed, however, the Division had one thing on their side: many of the officers and non-commissioned officers were battle-hardened veterans from the Eastern Front, and their leadership would later prove worthy of the task set out before them. The division was formed in July 1943 in Döllersheim, Germany, and sent to Normandy in the autumn. Originally it was a static division, but it had been gradually upgrading its mobility and in May 1944 it had comparatively good mobility for a German infantry division in the west. By 23 July however, the division had only four depleted infantry battalions, eight heavy AT guns, three StuG and nine artillery batteries left was rated to have “Kampfwert V” which was the lowest assignable. It was decided 10 August that the 243. Division should be rebuilt using the 182. Reserve Division, but this was never carried out and the division was disbanded 12 September. Lucky Man As the 243.ID was officially dissolved, Münz joined his last Heeresflak unit, the Fla-Kompanie of Kampfgruppe 2/XIII that same autumn. This unit was also nicknamed “Kampfgruppe Gneisenau” and fought in northeast France, until it was absorbed by the newly erected 16. Volksgrenadier-Division in the Vosges mountains. Münz was wounded again on 5th of February 1945; these were critical days for the 16.VGD as they were nearly surrounded in the Vosges just west of Colmar, but they managed to escape east and cross the Rhine at Neuenburg. Münz was evacuated to hospital in Tirol and would not see action again; he was sent home on 1st of May and might have even avoided capture at the end of the war. The Soldbuch is in a very used (with loose pages) but still complete condition, including the portrait photo and an extra front cover. It really shows the wear of five years in his pocket, and is packed with entries, also including P.38 pistols, Czech rifles and a Tarnnetz in the equipment section. Münz received a total of four awards, also including a Schutzwall-Ehrenzeichen in 1941: all were related to the Western Front. More links: https://www.dday-overlord.com/en/battle-of-normandy/forces/germany/243-infanterie-division https://www.flamesofwar.com/hobby.aspx?art_id=678
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WWII German Sword Maker Window Sign – W.K.C Sollingen – Original Period Print in VGC – Rare
£320.00Original Period TR Sign for a shop selling products from W.K.C Solligen – a TR producer of fine blades. This is something for the serious edged weapons collectors display. Very good condition with original display loop attached still.
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WWII German Book – U-Boots Kommandanten und Kriegsverbrecher – Gifted to Adolf Hitler from Georg Günther von Forstner – Dedicated
£369.00This original edition was gifted to Hitler in 1937. It reads: Dear Leader and Reich Chancellor, Adolf Hitler, protector of the true German honor, in the firm confidence that the honor of German warriors, especially our submarine weapon, which has been violated by the demands of the enemy and the German language of judges, will be restored before the world. reverently dedicated. Griefswald Christmas 1937, Geog Günter Freiherr von Forstner. Authored and Dedicated by: Georg Günther von Forstner In April 1900, von Forstner joined the Imperial Navy. On September 27, 1903 he was appointed lieutenant at sea. On March 21, 1905, he was promoted to first lieutenant at sea on the emperor Charlemagne . In 1908 he worked on the Königsberg and in 1909 at Hertha;.Kiel in shipyard at the Konrad von Henkel-Gebhardi Until 1914, von Forstner worked as an adjutant to Rear Admiral In the same year he worked in the inspection of the torpedo system. After the outbreak of the First World War he was commander of U 28 until July 1916; used. Under his command, the submarine sank the British passenger steamer Falaba. George Canal, killing 104 people. Among the dead passengers was the first American fatality in World War I, raising tensions between the United States and the German Empire. He then worked as a teacher at the submarine school until December 1917. This was followed by an entertaining stint as head of the Arösund division, while at the same time serving as commander of the Panther. Until the end of the war he worked as First Officer on the Königsberg. On April 28, 1918, he was promoted to lieutenant captain. He resigned from the German Navy on July 9, 1919. In the Weimar Republic von Forstner worked as an author and moved to Greifswald. Von Forstner openly appeared as a historical revisionist and in a lecture at a meeting accused the German National People’s Party (DNVP) in Stralsund the Social Democracy as the cause of the German Defeat in the First World War. As chairman of the Greifswalder Stahlhelm and DNVP member he also registered as a candidate in the Pomeranian constituency. Final comments: An odd book, with a poignant meaning behind it, it was found in the USA and was som sort of bring back to the US. The book itself seems to be quite rare, and I was unable to find another copy listed.
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WWII German SA Photos – Deutsche Rheinpfalz Winzerhaus – Original
£61.00Two photos brought back to the USA by a US Soldier. He denotes on the back of the original Agfa Lupex – Storm Troopers “SS” But in fact the scene shows SA members at a Party Rally as well as a scene outside a pub – Deutsche Rheinpfalz Winzerhaus.
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WWII German Award Certificate – War Merit Cross with Swords – Signed General der Flieger Bieneck – Original Signature
£102.00Bought for 100 Euro many years ago, a rare signature.
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WWII German Army Wehrpass – Gefreiter Blauschiess – Killed in the Battle for Moscow – Iron Cross Second Class
£126.00Wehrpass issued to Paul Blauschiess. He served with the Schützen Regiment 69 (10th Panzer Division) See the attached image in the gallery, one can see how close to Moscow they were. Earned the Iron Cross Second Class with the 10th Panzer Division in August 1941. Killed in October of 1941. See his Ancestry Military Card attached also.
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WWII German Army Soldbuch – Obgefr Franz Reitter – Festungs Infanterie Batl 1008 – 22 Infanterie Div – Greece Anti-Partisan Actions
£150.00Nice clean Soldbuch opened in 1942 to Franz Reitter. He served in many units, most notable: Landesschützen-Bataillon 252 Festungs Infanterie Batl 1008 – seems he served a while in Greece, members of his unit have been accredited with being awarded the Anti-Partisan Badge. https://www.tracesofwar.com/persons/107669/Orichel-Aloysius-Festungs-Inf-Bat1008.htm It seems he was captured with Feldzeug Kompanie 141. Included is a letter to his loved ones from a POW Camp, nice and easy to read, states he is alive and well, and he sent the letter with a wounded soldier who was being discharged. A nice little set with a nice Portrait of Franz.
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WWII German Luftwaffe Soldbuch – Flieger Fritz Krause – Fallschirm-Jäger-Ersatz- und Ausbildungs-Regiment 3 – Late War FJ
£134.00This Soldbuch was issued to Fritz Krause born in 1924, he was drafted into a Luftwaffe replacement unit in late 1944. By 1945 he was in training with Fallschirm-Jäger-Ersatz- und Ausbildungs-Regiment 3 (20 FJD). During the period 4-8 May 1945, the remnants of the 9. Armee, attached to the 12. Armee, crossed to the west bank of the Elbe and surrendered to the U.S. Ninth Army. It would seem he was involved in the last battles although there are not many entries more to follow. A nice example of a late war FJ, who seen the end of the war out he is not listed as KIA.
