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Sonderwausweis – Van Gülich – Luftkommando XI Hamburg – Iron Cross 2nd Class Entry – Very Rare ! (Sold)
Edith van Gülich was a Post helper in Luftgaukommando XI Hamburg. The ID is fairly common for woman essential workers, although the entry: E.K.II / 45 It is the first and only ID for a woman who won the Iron Cross I have had or seen. How? Woman were awarded such medals, and in her case it was highly likely it was for bravery during an Allied Bombing raid on Hamburg in early 1945.
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Führerausweis BDM & BDM ID – Jungmädelschaftsführerin Lejenne – Rare BDM IDs for a Leader! (Sold)
A rare set of BDM IDs for a leader.
Hildegard Lejenne, born in Cologne, she lived in Nuremberg and was in 1934 a BDM Leader (Jungmädelschaftsführerin) in Franken and later in Nuremberg City.
This large ID, showing a picture of Hildegard in white clothing is a very rare ID, I have not seen many of these offered for sale.
The more common ID Card for the BDM in a smaller format is much more common, and is also included for Hildegard.
Both IDs have original pictures applied and are from very desirable locations and sought after areas in Germany, the city of Nuremberg being one of them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMfzQWjXzHw
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Personal Ausweis – Marian Grochowski – Polish Resistance – Escaped on Train to Auschwitz – Incredible documented Story! (Sold)
This incredible ID is so unique that there are for sure no more out there with a similar story.
Marian Grochowski was born in 1925 in Poland.
He was according to his obituary a witness of an atrocity in 1944, and was captured by the Germans.
He was put on a train with where he met Roza Nowotarska (who wrote a book about her experiences).
They had realised that they were actually going to Auschwitz, and Marian found some way to break out of the train he managed to take with him Roza, who later immigrated to the USA. She went on to write a book about her experiences, and it is included in the lot.
Background
Grochowski was from Rzeszow, in the district of Krakau.
The ID was issued by the Kreishauptmann in Rzeszow, this was SS Obersturmbahnführer Heinz Ehaus (three pictures below).
Ehaus was responsible in January 1944 for torturing 40 Jews in the town square of Rzeszow. His main role was to locate and deport. He deported between 18,000 and 21,000 to the Camps. After which he renamed Rzeszow as Stadt Reichshof, claiming already in 1942 that he had found them all and the town was free from Jews. On the 8th of May 1945 he killed himself.
An execution was force witnessed by Grochowski (read below for more details).
Grochowski was some sort of Polish Nationalist after the war and was imprisoned, there is no doubt that more information can be found out.
Obituary
Marian Grochowski was born in Chojnice as the sixth child. In 1934, my grandmother said, “This is your uncle.” I saw a nice boy and thought he was my other older brother. My uncle happened to be only 6 years older than me. We traveled from Tczew to Chojnice. We stayed for the rest of his life and we loved each other like brothers. For five years we were separated by World War II. We had similar fates. We saw my father and my grandfather for the last time in 1939. My grandfather stayed in Chojnice in August 1939, and he ordered my grandmother to be taken to the Bieszczady Mountains, where they spent 2 weeks in the countryside before the war.
In August 1939 we were in Hel. Grandma survived the war. We did not find the bones of the murdered grandfather in Chojnice. Marian Grochowski joined the militant scouting organization. He told me something about it … I knew more in Róża Nowotarska’s book “The War Triptych” (Lon dyn 1974). on a scale unprecedented in history. And for us, Poles, it has become the end of the world.
“At the age of 19, he came from Rzeszów to Kraków with Mrs. Róża. The Germans caught them in a round-up and tried to take them to work in Germany. They were already on the freight train to Auschwitz. They witnessed a street execution.” Uncle returned safe and sound to Chojnice. He spent 7 years in prisons in the Polish People’s Republic.
Extracts from the book:
It would seem that he was party to faking papers in order to escape being deported, but was caught. (Translated from Polish)
”It all had to be mixed up and not mixed up. Marian Grochowski, with a stony face on which the first stubble was just falling off, led a transport of forty people from the camp to the Rhine vineyards, but none of them boarded the train going west. Under the watchful eye of SS Man Swoboda, the camp manager at the time, Grochowski walked carelessly and indifferently, carrying in his hand a bundle of papers whose names were not in agreement with the Kennkarts.”
The Execution:
”They can shoot us like game. And we stand helpless and have nowhere to run away. And, taking a look at the square, he added: We will find out in a moment what kind of performance we have been invited to see. And whether we will be spectators or the main actors. What a fate! said Marian Grochowski. we are so lucky … An open truck came from Józefa Street. The gendarmes jumped down from it. They were lining up almost in front of us. The truck pulled back. Two others arrived a moment later. covered with heavy tarpaulins. Young people with their hands tied behind them began to be taken out of them. The prisoners from Montelupich turned Marian’s head towards us. – There is going to be a public execution. The bastards needed spectators …. Schauen! Schauen! the Germans screamed. The Gestapo men placed prisoners under the torn wall of the synagogue. Close your eyes, don’t look! For God’s sake, don’t look at you! Irena was crying. This is the show. Look, Poles, what we can do, Marian said through clenched teeth. And we, like sheep, stand and hold on.”
For more information on the the Ghetto and the events in this area: http://www.deathcamps.org/occupation/rzeszow%20ghetto.html
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SS Soldbuch – SS -Sturmmann Schmidt – SS Panzer Pioneer Batl 11 (SS Panzer Division Nordland) – Battle of Tannenberg Narwa – Outstanding Grouping (On Hold)
An outstanding grouping to one of the most famous battles of the Waffen SS, also known as the battle of the European SS.
The Battle at Tannenberg Line 1944
SS Soldbuch Issued in July of 1943 with:
SS Panzer Pioneer Batl 11 (SS Panzer Division Nordland)
From August 20, 1943, the division, which was still in formation, was relocated from the “Grafenwoehr” military training area to the area south of Sisak, about 50 km southeast of Agram. In addition to further training, the division was used for partisan operations and for the disarming of Italian units in the Sambor and Karlovac area. In December 1943 the division had a strength of 12,462 men. It was relocated to the Kirowa area at the Oranienbaumer Kessel and placed under the 18th Army. When the Red Army was able to break into the positions of the 9th and 10th Air Force Field Divisions deployed on the eastern edge of the Kessel on January 14, 1943, parts of the 11th SS Volunteer Panzer Grenadier Division were used to clear up the situation used. After the Red Army had successfully advanced its offensive, the division finally reached the Narva in heavy defensive battles. Here the front stabilized again. In mid-February 1944, the division received replacements, so that by the end of February 1944 it had a strength of 11,134 men. While the positions on the Narva held, the division was moved to the southwest to stop the enemy troops penetrating to Vaivara and Auvere. The advance of the Red Army southwest of Narva was halted in heavy fighting. The front calmed down in the area of the “Narva” army department by the summer of 1944. On June 30, 1944, the division had a strength of 11,020 men. From July 1944, the division was involved in heavy defensive battles on the Narva. On July 25, 1944, the division had to withdraw to the “Tannenberg” position between Vaivara and Auvere. Heavy fighting broke out here at the beginning of August. On August 10, 1944, the Red Army succeeded in breaking through the front south of the Pleskauer See and advancing the area east of Vöru. As a result, the “Narva” army department, to which the 11th SS Volunteer Panzer Grenadier Division belonged, was given the task of stopping the advance of Russian troops between Lake Wirz and Lake Peipus. It was possible to contain the Russian intrusion and hold it back for the time being. When Estonia was evacuated in mid-September 1944, the division marched into the Baldone area and was deployed from here to relieve the Latvian capital. Up to September 26th there was heavy fighting with enormous losses on both sides. The German units succeeded in stopping the Russian advance on Riga. The division was then moved to the Dobele area. When Russian troops reached the Baltic Sea near Polangen on October 14, 1944, the division was taken from the front and assembled in the Priekule area to force the breakthrough to the south. But the Red Army got ahead of the German plans to attack. The 1st Battle of Courland began on October 16, 1944, when the Russian troops hit the division with full force. Even so, the division managed to hold onto its positions. The division was able to hold its lines even during the 2nd Battle of Courland. On January 23, 1945 there were again attacks with the focus on Priekule as part of the 4th Battle of Courland. Russian troops managed to break into German positions several times. Together with the 14th Panzer Division, the division managed to maintain its space. At the end of January 1945, the division was finally pulled from the front and loaded onto ships in Libau.
Awards:
- Wounds Badge in Black – Narwa
- Iron Cross Second Class – Won in Kurland 1944
Equipment
K98, full SS Camo, including cap.
Pictures and Documents
- Wound Tag – grenade splinter in Narwa
- Soldbuch Photo
- Two Photos of the famous Orphanage Hill (Very famous in SS History at Narwa!) Incredible photos!
- SS School Prag – training at Pioneer school
- Family photos and train tickets
Schmidt was captured in Latvia, as his Soldbuch has no more entries for 1944 and the bulk of the division escaped from the pocket. Noted on the first page, in Russian – Dead 17.8.1945
There is no record of him sadly, he like many are lost…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDKQgbHlLi0
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Der Stahlhelm Mitgliedsbuch – Erich Hauck – WW1 Veteran – With Photo – Somme Battles! (Sold)
An incredible little ID, the first of its sort to arrive with us.
It shows a picture of Erich Hauck, a former member of:
Reserve Infanterie Batl 104 – Minenwerfer
He fought on the Somme, Weichsel and Champagne
He was wounded four times and as a result was disabled, up to 50% .
Der Stahlhelm was formed on 25 December 1918 in Magdeburg, Germany, by the factory owner and first World War-disabled reserve officer Franz Seldte. After the 11 November armistice, the Army had been split up and the newly established German Reichswehr according to the Treaty of Versailles was to be confined to no more than 100,000 men. Similar to the numerous Freikorps, which upon the Revolution of 1918–1919 were temporarily backed by the Council of the People’s Deputies under Chancellor Friedrich Ebert (Ebert–Groener pact), Der Stahlhelm ex-servicemen’s organization was meant to form a paramilitary organization.
The league was a rallying point for revanchist and nationalistic forces from the beginning. Within the organization a worldview oriented toward the prior Imperial regime and the Hohenzollern monarchy predominated, many of its members promoting the Dolchstosslegende (“Stab-in-the-back legend”) and the “November Criminals” bias against the Weimar Coalition government. Its journal, Der Stahlhelm, was edited by Count Hans-Jürgen von Blumenthal, later hanged for his part in the 20 July plot. Financing was provided by the Deutscher Herrenklub, an association of German industrialists and business magnates with elements of the East Elbian landed gentry (Junker). Jewish veterans were denied admission and formed a separate Reichsbund jüdischer Frontsoldaten.
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Deutsche Studentenschaft ID – Lehmann – Berlin School of Engineering – Berlin 1945 (Sold)
Deutsche Studentenschaft ID
To Mr Lehmann
He was a student through the war with the Berlin School of Engineering
There are entries for Berlin in 1945. So he was a witness to the bombing raids of 1944 and later the capture of Berlin.
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Wehrmacht Licence – Schneppenhorst – Halftrack (10 Ton) (sold)
Nice Army Licence for 10 ton tracked vehicle.
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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.
