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Reichsarbeitsdienst traning album
Creator
Unknown
Date1914 - 1943
Mediumalbum: 171 gelatin silver prints, 5 loose gelatin silver prints
Dimensions20cm x 24cm (7.87 x 9.45 inches)
Credit LineAnonymous gift, 2020
Object number2021/212
Place CreatedGermany
ProvenanceGerman WW2 album of an unknown Wehrmacht Kraftfahrer (driver of motor vehicles) which includes a number of touching WW1 family portraits. Photographs document his training in the Reichsarbeitsdienst (work details, military exercises, the arrival of uniforms) and active service in France and Russia. Of note are pictures of crowds welcoming arriving troops (in Vienna?), road signs, various vehicles (in operation and destroyed), a downed RAF Bristol Blenheim, prisoners of war and winter warfare in and around Mtensk, Tula, Orel (Oryol) and Kursk. Also of interest are photographs of rasputitsa mud and Russian peasants clearing snow for a convoy of German trucks. Some captions on reverse
LocationNot currently on display
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