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WWI / WWII German M18 Transitional Wehrmacht Helmet Original
$800.00This is a nice example of the last version of the WWI German Helmet the M18. This particular example was reissued to the Wehrmacht, and has the WWII early liner.
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Original Wehrmacht Artillery Officers Logarithmic”Richtscheiber A” Marked Measuring Device – kad 1941 WaA – Rare
Here we have a Wehrmacht Artillery Computing device, a logarithmic ruler. This worked out calculations needed to set firing points for artillery. These seem very uncommon, but a must have for the Artillery Officer! This was made by : kad – unknown wartime maker, 1941 with WaA Interestingly, there is some sort of joke wrote in pencil in German from an Officer Cadet. Junker hat gedöst, bist das oberfähnrich ihn erlöst Then marked with 13.OA-Lehrg – ( 13 Officier Anwärter Lehrgang ) Which corresponds to: Schule für Fahnenjunker der Artillerie (Artillerie-Schule III).- Beurteilungen 12. und 13. Offizieranwärter-Lehrgang – Schule III für Fahnenjunker der Artillerie, Suippes-Mourmelon France Officer Cadet School for Heavy Artillery, in Mourmelon France
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WWII German Latvian “Im Ostland” Newspapers x3 – Rare
$90.00Interesting content here in these, shortly after Latvia was taken by the Germans.
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WWII Latvian Legion Waffen-SS Commander Voldemārs Veiss Portrait Original
Voldemārs Veiss (7 November 1899 – 17 April 1944) was a Latvian officer and prominent Nazi collaborator, who served in the Waffen-SS of Nazi Germany. When Riga, the capital of Latvia, fell to the Wehrmacht on 1 July 1941, the Germans began forming self-defence and police forces. Veiss was appointed the commander of such a Self Defence organization. On 20 July the Nazis disbanded this organization and ordered the formation of auxiliary police forces instead, with Lt. Col. Veiss being appointed Chief of the Latvian Auxiliary Police. At the end of 1941, he became the First Deputy Director General of the Director General of the Interior when the Latvian Self-Administration was reorganized. Veiss funeral in Riga As early as autumn 1941 Latvian auxiliary police units, temporarily attached to the Wehrmacht, were first used in front line duties. This occasional employment continued until the 2nd Latvian Brigade was formed from six Latvian battalions, four of which had combat experience. At the end of April 1943 a three battalion formation fighting under the name of the Latvian Legion was withdrawn from the front line and renamed the 1st Volunteer Regiment of the SS (Latvian), with a change of Wehrmacht ranks to those of the Waffen-SS. Voldemārs Veiss was given command of this regiment, which was a part of the 2nd Latvian Brigade, and received the rank of Legion-Obersturmbannführer. In January 1944, Veiss became the first Latvian to receive the Knight’s Cross. On 17 April 1944, Veiss died from wounds he had suffered seven days prior. Original a little bigger than A5 size, rear has a street name and number in Riga.
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WWII German Infantry Assault Badge – Berg & Nolte – Original Medal
$185.00Nice original With WW Tacked Postage!
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WWII German Wehrmacht Soldbuch & Wehrpass – Kanonier Karl Lüddeke -Bautzen 1945 – 15cm Nebelwerfer 41 – Werfer-Ersatz- und Ausbildungs-Abteilung 1 – Ausbildungs-Division 404
$265.00Karl Lüddeke was born in Goslar 1927, his Soldbuch was issued in December 1944. He was enlisted into a Werfer training unit, where he was trained on the 98K Rifle, 15cm Nebelwerfer 41, MG34, Luger P08 and the Machine Pistol. He was promoted on the 19.3.1945 as a RUB – Reserve–Unteroffizierbewerber – an NCO candidate. Although by April 1945, his training school was deployed into the Ausbildungs Division 404 – The Division 404 was set up in April 1945 by renaming Division No. 404 in the Lübben – Görlitz – Bautzen area, including all the training units still remaining in this area. The division was deployed with the training troops against the Red Army and against the Americans. The division headquarters was in Dorfhain. Nice complete set to a late war very young Soldier.
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WWII German Wehrmacht Soldbuch – Stabsgefreiter Cadenbach – Panzer Artillerie Regiment 92 – “Hummel” – 20th Panzer Division – Battle of Moscow 1941
Soldbuch to Alios Cadenbach from Koblenz area, Germany. Cadenbach served exclusively with the same unit, seeing its development throughout the war. He was enlisted in 1939, and seen the whole war… Artillerie Regiment 92 Panzer Artillerie Regiment 92 – Stabsbatterie Its worth noting, that the unit where armed with the famous Hummel! See Below… 20th Panzer Division The 20th Panzer Division was formed on 15 October 1940 after the decision had been made to weaken the existing German tank divisions to create new ones. The new division drew units from various active and reserve units, among them the 19th Infantry Division which had been converted to a tank division itself, having become the 19th Panzer Division. Operation Barbarossa, 3 July 1941 Attached to Army Group Center, the division participated in the opening stages of Operation Barbarossa and remained in the front echelon of attack during the series of advances on Minsk, Smolensk and took part in Operation Typhoon, the failed attack on Moscow. It remained on the central front during the winter of 1941–42, engaged in defensive operations and retreat. In March 1942 it was withdrawn to Bryansk for refitting and a rest after heavy casualties during the winter that lead to disbanding of a number of its units. The 20th Panzer Division, consisting of just one of the nominal three tank battalions, remained in the central sector of the Eastern Front, taking part in the capture of Voronezh in mid-1942 but otherwise engaged in defensive operations. It took part in the defence of Orel in the winter of 1942–43 and, in July 1943, was part of the northern spearhead during the battle of Kursk. The rest of 1943 was spent in a long retreat between Orel, Gomel, Orsha, and Vitebsk. The 20th Panzer Division spent the winter of 1944 fighting in the Polotsk, Vitebsk, Bobruisk and Cholm areas. Having suffered heavy losses during the Red Army’s Operation Bagration, the division was sent to Romania for refitting in August 1944. In October, the division was sent to East Prussia, and then sent to Hungary on 6 January 1945, to partake in the Garam (S:Hron) battles raging in northern Hungary. It then retreated through Breslau, Schweinitz and Neisse in Silesia (now part of Poland). The division was transferred to Görlitz (east of Dresden on the post-1945 German frontier with Poland). On 19 April 1945, the division was involved in a counteroffensive west of Görlitz in the direction of Niesky, but disengaged three days later and retreated west. It counterattacked again in the Bautzen area, succeeding in relieving the local garrison at heavy cost to Soviet forces. By 26 April 1945, the division was situated northwest of Dresden; by 6 May it retreated south across the Czechoslovakian border. Some divisional elements surrendered to the Red Army near Teplice-Sanov (northwest of Prague), whilst the rest, including elements of Panzer-Aufklärungs-Abteilung 20. surrendered to the U.S. Army at Rokycany, (between Prague and Plzeň); they were handed over to the Soviet forces. Wounded during battle Wounded December 1943 – 31b – Shrapnel Wounds. Equipment / Issued P38 Walther Pistol, Spade, Winter Clothes. Führer Packet Medals / Awards Eastern Front Medal Drivers Badge in Bronze Wounds badge in Black War Merit Cross with Swords (20th Panzer Division) Drivers Badge in Silver He made it right to the end of the war, the last stamp inside is the 12th of May 1945, in the rear of his Soldbuch is two pictures of his children and his POW Paper for demobilisation.
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WWII German Passport ID – Reispass – Berlin Tempelhof 1935 – Film Industry Worker
$85.00Here we have an original German Passport for a Lady from Berlin Tempelhof. She worked in the German Film Industry, sticking film together. Tempelhof was known for the Film Studios, some ruins remain there today from the former studios. Price includes shipping.
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WWII German Bekanntmachung Poster – “Avis” Paris 1941 – Execution of French Resistance Members – Large Poster – Very Rare! Sold
$400.00Here we have an original Large ( 29 3/4″ x 22 1/2″) Poster. See Below for the full story! Condition: Damaged as seen, could be correctly mounted for display. Last Three photos are reference only. Consider Making an Offer, Shipping World Wide is Free! Samuel Tyszelman (born Szmul Cecel Tyszelman; 21 January 1921 – 19 August 1941) was a Jewish Polish communist who was a member of the French Resistance during World War II (1939-1945). He and another man were arrested and executed for taking part in an anti-German demonstration. That started a series of assassinations and reprisals in which over 500 people were killed. Szmul Cecel Tyszelman was born in Puławy, Poland, on 21 January 1921. His family was Jewish. During World War II (1939–1945), he was a member of the French communist resistance organization known as Bataillons de la jeunesse. He was in a group named the Main-d’Oeuvre Immigrée, whose members were Jews who had migrated from Eastern Europe in the 1920s and the 1930s. In early August 1941, three of them (Tyzelman, Charles Wolmark and Elie Walach) stole 25 kilograms (55 lb) of dynamite from a quarry in the Seine-et-Oise. On 13 August 1941, Tyszelman, known as “Titi”, was among a group of 100 young people, male and female, who walked out of the Strasbourg – Saint-Denis metro station and followed the tricolour flag of student Olivier Souef. They sang la Marseillaise and shouted “Down with Hitler! Vive La France!” French and German police intervened. German soldiers opened fire, and Tyzelman was hit in the leg. Gautherot fled, but was pursued by a German civilian and caught in a porter’s lodge at 37 Boulevard Saint-Martin. Tyszelman, pursued by German soldiers who were aided by an emergency police van of the 19th arrondissement, was finally arrested in a cellar of 29 Boulevard Magenta, where he had taken refuge. On 14 August, the Militärbefehlshaber in Frankreich (MBF: “German Military Commander in France”) banned the French Communist Party and announced that anyone who took part in a communist demonstration in the future would be charged with aiding the enemy. Tyszelman and Gautherot were tried by a German military tribunal and sentenced to death. They were executed by firing squad on 19 August 1941 at the Vallée-aux-Loups in Châtenay-Malabry, Hauts-de-Seine. Notices in black lettering on red paper were posted the same day to announce the sentence and the execution. Until this time the Jeunesses Communistes (JC: Young Communists) were mainly involved in propaganda, publishing tracts and clandestine newspapers, with minimal armed action. At a session from 15 to 17 August it was agreed that members of the JC should receive weapons training and should increase sabotage and attacks on occupation troops. There was some resistance but with news of the execution of Gautherot and Tyszelman it was agreed to take a more active role. Of the JC leaders, Pierre Georges became primarily involved in military operations in the Paris region, while Albert Ouzoulias was more concerned with recruitment and liaison between the regions. On 21 August Pierre Georges and three companions made a revenge killing of a German soldier named Alfons Moser when he was boarding a train at the Barbès metro station at eight in the morning. When Adolf Hitler heard of Moser’s death he ordered that one hundred hostages be executed at once. The German military commander in France, Otto von Stülpnagel, did not want to upset the Vichy government. He told Vichy he just wanted ten hostages, who would be shot if any Germans were attacked. On 27 August 1941 three Communists were sentenced to death by guillotine and were executed the next day. Over the next few days five more communists who had taken part in Tyszelman’s demonstration were shot and then three Gaullists. This was the start of a series of assassinations and reprisals that resulted in five hundred French hostages being executed in the next few months.
