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10-24-2012, 06:07 AM
#121
Re: Post your death notices
I despise the ones that simply read, 'He died in the east'.
It really says something about the culture of the era- that there was North Africa, France, Belgium, Holland, Italy, Yugoslavia, Greece, etc... and then the East Front. It's almost as if the typical German thought of the front as a sort of abyss or frontier that a soldat simply got lost in. Very rarely have I ever seen a card that actually lists the Russian village. Most of the time, when it does, it's misspelled.
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10-24-2012 06:07 AM
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10-24-2012, 09:59 AM
#122
Re: Post your death notices
It is quite a good description of the connotation that goes with the term Eastern Front. However, one still sees the names of the places quite often at the beginning of the war, mostly large cities (in Ukraine). A lot of people were also mentioning Stalingrad if that applied. I guess the reasons that they were not mentioning the village names is that nobody knew where it was anyway and in the official letters there was not always a place mentioned (due various reasons). Moreover, there are a lot of cards from the westfront that are also lacking names of the places and villages, but they are just less numerous.
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11-11-2012, 08:22 AM
#123
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11-20-2012, 03:05 PM
#124
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12-10-2012, 12:44 AM
#125
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12-10-2012, 01:04 AM
#126
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12-10-2012, 01:18 AM
#127
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12-10-2012, 08:27 AM
#128
Re: Post your death notices
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Bill T
What does R.O.B. stand for??
Reserveoffiziersbewerber = Reserve Officer Candidate.
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Bill T
I think he was a Breadmakers Assistant? (steinmehl gehilfe) Before the war.
Wouldn't want to chew his bread, Bill: It's Steinmetzgehilfe, i.e. a stone cutter's assistant.
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12-10-2012, 08:08 PM
#129
Re: Post your death notices
Hahaha so he was a Stone-mason kinda! The translation I got was Stone-Flour mate. So I figured it was some type of breadmaker or sumthin. haha And thank you for the abbreviation explanation. Much appreciated. The word Offizier-Anwarter literally means Officer Candidate, right? So, when we are talking about a reservist, we would refer to him as Reserveoffiziersbewerber then?
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12-10-2012, 09:01 PM
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