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Anti Arcraft soldiers Eastern Front album
Creator
Unknown
Date1941
Dimensions17cm x 22cm (6.69 x 8.66 inches)
Credit LineAnonymous gift, 2020
Object number2021/198
ProvenanceThe first of two diary-like-albums by an unnamed Wehrmacht radio operator attached to an anti-aircraft unit. Extensive handwritten text -- and captions filled with youthful excitment -- accompany photographs of his training in Wolfenbüttel and Munster. His service on the Eastern Front is documented in images of his advancing artillery unit, destroyed Russian villages, aircraft and T34 tanks, graves and a defaced pebblestone mural of Lenin and Stalin. Of note is a field visit of General Otto Deßloch of II.Flakkorps as well as street views of Schytomyr/Zhitomir (Ukraine) plus one or two excellent portraits of German soldiers and dead or captured Soviet fighters (male and female). The album begins with postcards of Berlin (Siegessäule, Olympic Stadium, Air Ministry, changing of the guard at the Neue Wache) and Potsdam. Of particular interest is the Compiègne railway carriage -- in which Germany surrendered at the end of World War One -- on display in Berlin's Lustgarten. Extensive text and captions.
LocationNot currently on display
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