Ice Cold in Alexandrowskoje

Morlar

I don't usually post WW2 photo albums here but here is one I picked up recently which might be interesting to some :


http://www.militaria-archive.com/AlbumsII/sanko625/index.html

This album is from a German army surgeon (Possibly a Dr. Peters) who worked as part of Sanitäts-Kompanie 625 (A) which was based for a time at Nowo Alexandrowskoje, Russia through 1942.

The field hospital facility seems to have been purpose built (though it encompassed pre-exsisting buildings).

It was possibly adjacent to it's own airfield and graveyard.

Facilities included operating theatres, Dentistry, sauna, baths, showers & de-lousing rooms where "'Fiery Elias' chased away the louse".

This location was also the sight of combat medals being awarded to the wounded men. This album included several typed texts which are shown here - these reference the general conditions, the lack of beer, the unreliability of generators & the equal level of treatment provided to both officers and men. Also shown are photographs of a captured KV2 Heavy Soviet tank in German service presumably in the immediate vicinity. Photographs of medical air transport, white field ambulances and mass funeral ceremonies with firing party are shown. Included also are more mundane pictures of field generators and Russian women washing clothes and an indoor skittles lane for staff recreation. The rare and unusual album closes with pictures of the medical team joking around and then relaxing for drinks outdoors during a Russian summer evening.


Sanko 625 is also mentioned briefly in L.D.W. though there does not appear to be much information on this :

http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/SanEinheiten/Sankp-R.htm

Morlar

Firing party for mass funeral





Waiting






Captured Soviet KV2 Heavy tank in German service





Awarding combat medal at field hospital



The rest of the pictures are here if anyone wants to check them out :

http://www.militaria-archive.com/AlbumsII/sanko625/index.html

If you can add anything about units/locations/background or dates etc please let me know.