Re: WW2 medals insignia and memorabilia
Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2021 5:53 pm
Mmmmm. A beer stein is even better!
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Jep. Ist hard to judge 80 years later. He ( my grandfather) was trialed after the war, but no sentence. My wifes mother and family was from Lithuania, and were first overrun by Germans, and later from Russians. The boys were taken to the wehrmacht, and the girls were following the front when the russians were pushingjarndice wrote:I wanted to be a soldier in 1962 and the British Army was the only army in town at the time,dane61 wrote:The party badge is DNSAP , the danish variant of the german party. It belonged to a relative who had a bad choice in politics.Topper wrote:Hi Dane61,
The large badge next to the EK2 is a "Tag der deutschen Arbeit" the party badge with red field is not one I have seen before, is there a maker on the reverse?
All the best
Frank
Who can say what I would have done if I was a 17 year old Dane in 1940.
Most young men don't think too deeply of matters politic especially when there is the prospect of women, ale and a punch up all that and free food, accommodation and a uniform.
What's that you say? You are going to pay me Bring it on.
In the very early 50s we had two DP (Displaced Persons) children billeted with us they were very quiet and being brother and sister and both under ten they kept to themselves,dane61 wrote:The card that the allied provided my wifes granddad
I've also taken many pics at Bovington, the Swiss Military Museum (at Full- my son actually lives in Zürich, so not too far away from it) and the Panzer Museum at Munster, many of which have been posted here; but do post any pics you want Topper that you think might be of interest I think you've already slipped into Forum legend with your unique Carius contributions, and so do post away!Topper wrote:Hi
Photographs taken at the Saumur tank museum, I have a lot of photographs of the Swiss tank museum and tanks in Belgium, if anyone is interested and Bovington tank museum, if you would like to see any of these. just ask.
Regards
Frank
PS this is the mannequin Of Otto Carius I was taking about earlier