Item Description
Original Item: One-of-a-kind. A wonderful personal photo album, marked on the front with the Wehrmachtadler Eagle, over regimental designation 8. (M.G.) Komp. Inf.-Rgt. 94, or 8th Machine Gun Company 94th Infantry Regiment. Inside the front cover is the standard Erinnerungen an meine Wehrdienstzeit (Memories of my Military Service), message, and it is named on the interior cover, although the name is difficult to make out. The back still has a visible maker mark from a company in LEIPZIG, and the album overall measures approximately 10.5" x 7".
Overall there are 29 pages in total, including the title page. Following this are 5 pages showing portraits of AH and other top level military officials. After this are 18 thicker pages for photos with "onion skin" separators to keep the pages from sticking together in the front, and about 3 pages for writing messages at the back, with a small message on that first page dated 1938.
There are 78 personal photographs of various sizes, showing all manner of scenes. Many of these include training photos, in and out of uniform. Being stationed at guard posts, some unit photos, some with men wearing sports shirts, some with children wearing their helmets, and some photos on the beach. The majority of these photos are likely from the pre-WWII era, with some photos of men in convalescent clothing, so these may be from the war. Not very many inscriptions but there are some on a few select pages.
Overall a really nice hard to find photo artillery regiment album from World War Two Germany. Some really fantastic research potential!
Context is everything when preserving old photo albums. The order in which an album was put together meant something to the creator and may give you clues about the photographs if they’re not identified. If at all possible, keep old albums in their original order. It’s okay to remove loose photos, but make a note of where they came from.
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