New Militaria Archive website

Morlar

I have put together a militaria-archive website, called, wait for it . . .

http://www.militaria-archive.com/

For now it's a bit rough around the edges.

I will re-design the homepage and the galleries layout to have them in sections (ie Photos, Medals, Documents etc) as soon as I find out how and get the time.

Currently there are several wwII photo albums & some WWI postcards.

Eventually it should hold the following sections;

Photo albums (more to come as soon as I put them online),
Photographs & Postcards (many, many including signed KC ones),
Documents (party and award),
Edged weapons
Medals
Badges
Books
Army issue Maps
Propaganda materials
feldpost etc.
Military Museums

For now the photo albums on there are :


Mg Kompanie 12th Machine Gun Company, Infantry Regiment 5


Rad to Panzer Album German Photo Album WW2 Showing progress from RAD to Panzer (multiple countries)


Photograph Collection Luftwaffe DAK - Photographs of one Luftwaffe man throughout Italy, Greece & Libya (March 1941 - August 1944)


A gallery of WWI postcards and pictures.



Anyway please check it out and if you happen to have any information on any of the units, weapons, vehicles, ranks or locations etc to any photographs please let me know via the email link on the site stating which picture/page.

The photograph albums that will be added in the next week or so are a 'Cholm encirclment' one and a '1940 France blitzkreig' one 'Danish Wehrmacht' one, an 'ostfront medic' and a 'polish blitzkreig' one.

PS This is not a 'for sale' site and when it is up and running I will start to put other peoples militaria collections online if they wish.

citizen_p

very nice.... liked the mg kompanie and panzer album

THe 5 others sound VERY interesting....

citizen_p

loved the polish campaign/occupation album, pity some pics are damaged.

the end of the cholm encirclement album is amazing also.

Morlar

Mousey- wrote: »

loved the polish campaign/occupation album, pity some pics are damaged.

the end of the cholm encirclement album is amazing also.

Cheers -yep the Polish one has some damage alright One of them could even be mid-attack as one of the soldiers seems to be bending over very quickly as if he had just been hit. Though it is also possible he just tripped:



I hadn't realised the Stug armour was so thin, it looks like a sheet of aluminium (I know it is not but it looks to be very thin considering) :



Here is the stug funeral one :


I would like to know more about this meeting here if possible - can anyone identify these uniforms > unfortunately they are also among the damaged ones :

ie this man on the steps 2nd row left :



Here he is arriving for the meeting and you can see the propaganda film-maker shooting the event and you can just see the tip of his visor




PS The Cholm encirclement one does get cut short at the end, possibly he didn't make it, or, maybe it was one album from a series of 2 which got split and sold seperately. The cholm pictures tend to be quite rare - specially in an album so I can't complain. I have also added some documents to the site and more to come.

arnhem44

I meant to ask,do you recall who the 1944 wound badge was awarded to in the museum photos

Morlar

arnhem44 wrote: »

I meant to ask,do you recall who the 1944 wound badge was awarded to in the museum photos

I don't know who that exact one was awarded to. That one in the IWM is the silver one, there were 4 in Gold and some black ones too. Here is a link to an article on the badge which lists the recipients :

http://www.wehrmacht-awards.com/service_awards/wound_badges/20_july.htm

I have since read on a seperate forum that the IWM one is a fake/reproduction - not sure if that is true or not, (I wouldn't have thought so).

FiSe

Sd. Kfz. 231/232
http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/3620/231_8.htm

Sd. Kfz. 222
http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/3620/sdkfz222.htm

SturmGeschutze / StuG
http://www.achtungpanzer.com/sturmgeschutz-iii-sturmgeschutz-iv.htm

Have found something about the joint German - Soviet meeting as well:

September 23, 1939 - the joint Soviet - German victory parade in the Polish city of Brest. After conclusion of the parade, the Soviet Red Army's Major General Semyon Krivoshein (right) congratulated his German counterpart, General Heinz Guderian (center) on successful completion of the joint invasion of Poland. Krivoshein also offered warm welcome to the Wehrmacht in Moscow, after its forthcoming victory over Great Britain.

...and a link on some more pics:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Armia_Czerwona,Wehrmacht_23.09.1939_wsp%C3%B3lna_parada.jpg

and here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESGactCIx_g&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fforum%2E33b%2Eru%2FprintTopic1917799%5F440%2Ehtml&feature=player_embedded

Morlar

FiSe wrote: »

Sd. Kfz. 231/232
http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/3620/231_8.htm

Sd. Kfz. 222
http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/3620/sdkfz222.htm

SturmGeschutze / StuG
http://www.achtungpanzer.com/sturmgeschutz-iii-sturmgeschutz-iv.htm

Have found something about the joint German - Soviet meeting as well:

September 23, 1939 - the joint Soviet - German victory parade in the Polish city of Brest. After conclusion of the parade, the Soviet Red Army's Major General Semyon Krivoshein (right) congratulated his German counterpart, General Heinz Guderian (center) on successful completion of the joint invasion of Poland. Krivoshein also offered warm welcome to the Wehrmacht in Moscow, after its forthcoming victory over Great Britain.

...and a link on some more pics:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Armia_Czerwona,Wehrmacht_23.09.1939_wsp%C3%B3lna_parada.jpg

and here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESGactCIx_g&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fforum%2E33b%2Eru%2FprintTopic1917799%5F440%2Ehtml&feature=player_embedded

Thanks a lot for that information on the vehicle types and meeting - I will check out the russian meeting footage later this evening as I would love to know more about this & maybe try to ID the people in the pictures.

citizen_p

liked the falschirmjager postcard, and the eagle nest ones.

nice document set also.

Morlar

Cheers for that. I have added a few more sections, the new ones are ;


http://www.militaria-archive.com/



Documents : Militaria Archive - Documents
Josef Heutz of the Schutzpolizei

9 award document set to Josef Heutz. ..........

This guy is pretty interesting if only I could find out more about him. I did find this site which seems to mention him in passing :

http://www1.jur.uva.nl/junsv/Excerpts/63101.htm

(You can get a babelfish german translation of the page).

Also here :

http://www.deathcamps.org/occupation/czestochowa%20ghetto.html

NSDAP Parteigenossen Conrad & misc party related documents

A document set relating to Parteigenossen Conrad & his son Rudolf. It is an interesting story from his Reichsparteitag attendance request to the telegram on his son's death to his own enlistment and death. You can only imagine how many families had similair stories. Included is his obituary outlining his WWI & WWII service and the draft obituary with corrections. The 2nd half of the set came from the same source but are unrelated. 'Von Front Zu Front' was to display soldiers experiences and thoughts to the homefront and vice versa. It also contains list of deaths, medal awards and some anecdotal information about anti-partisan activity and the soldier who triggered a criminal polizei investigation by falling off a train.


Photographs: Militaria Archive - WW2 Postcards & RK

World War 2 Postcards including Reichsparteitag, Berchtesgarden, Reichs Chancellery, Adolf Hitler, Feldernhalle & general propaganda postcards. Also Knights Cross winners (Signed & unsigned) pictures.


Militaria Archive - WW2 Studio Portraits, informal portraits, large group shots, wedding, medal award, shots & misc

Wehrmacht, Luftwaffe, NSKK, Schutzpolizei, Panzer, Waffen SS, SA, NSDAP, Hitler Youth, Kriegsmarine etc

I found out more about the Polish album pictures above on another forum. In the last 2 the Russian & German meeting in Poland. The Russian in the damaged pic is a General's rank (going by the Chevron size on his arm). One of the Germans is Diplomatic corps (going by the oversized eagle on this visor). The translations are:

1) Lublin Rgt. ... Obst. v. Weber

2) Eintreffen der russischen Abordnung

There are a couple of possibilities for the German :
Oberst Weber of IR 30 of the 18 ID or IR 85 of the 10 ID or possibly

" Officers of the 13thMot Inf Div,the officer
is the future GM Karl Ritter von Weber as Cmdr 93rd Inf Regt,note he
is wearing the buttonhole ribbon of a recipient of the Bavarian Max Josef
Order,he died of wounds 20/7/41 at Krassnyj."

Morlar

Here are a couple from the soldiers portraits section:




Party group shot inc sa, nsdap & ss





(This one is an SS TK at Dachau)





& a dandy looking Luftwaffe Pilot

citizen_p

nice new layout.
the 200+ photos photoalbum is amazing.

Morlar

Cheers, glad you liked it. I got most of the vehicle & aircraft details from Fise on here. There are a good few photos of the Douamont Ossuary included so I might try and check that out when I head over there in a few weeks. I am going to try and get some 'before & after' shots from the same angles to go with it when I do.

I got a lot more detail on the Polish album too ie ;

Poland Blitzkrieg 1939 Album:

Poland 1939 Blitzkrieg photo album which belonged to W. Koch from Köritz, who served in the Staff of the 2nd Batallion of Infanterieregiment 93, a motorised regiment in Infanteriedivision 13. Pictures include the regimental commander Oberst Dr. Ing. Ritter von Weber and Koch's battalion commander Major Oskar Radwan, who received the Ritterkreuz in France 1940.

A small album with some damaged pictures. Showing the aftermath of an attack on a Sd. Kfz. 231/232 including a Panzer funeral.Contains photographs of a meeting in Poland between a German delegation (including diplomatic corps) and a Russian delegation including a Soviet General. Other notable pictures include Polish POW's, cemetery, field graves, artillery towed by SdKfz, Panzerspahwagen, German airplanes, many vehicles, Polish bunker, radio transmission in the Funkwagen, also a Polish Jew instructed to wash Wehrmacht cars. There are a total of 34 photos, all taken in Poland, september 1939.

Still trying to find out more about the Cholm one & get some pictures of that Siege but they are proving difficult to find online anyway. The Rad to panzer one has some nice details & locations too but I haven't had much time to research that one yet.