I was sorting through some small boxes, and found a couple of old photos taken during WW2. to include a cemetery, a fellow on a little R&R at a post with family, and a mass hanging
Couple old German photos
I was sorting through some small boxes, and found a couple of old photos taken during WW2. to include a cemetery, a fellow on a little R&R at a post with family, and a mass hanging
Looks like Soviets doing the hanging .
It appears so. One unfortunate fellow is wearing a standard issue Wehrmacht overcoat. Really ***** to be on a receiving end of a noose.
I picked up these photos to just get one I really liked. I ended up getting about 40-50 different photos all together. Really nice lot. I'm just sorting through them. I had them a while, and just going through boxes.
Very cool to find old photos. The hanging one is quite something. Nice group!
I was looping the other photos, and went through these 3. I was able to read some of the headstones, and they belonged to including:
Gefr. Gustov Otto Hillmann - 3/I flck ABT 53 13-7-41
Obergefr. Ehrhard Stirmlinger 3/PZ RGT 38 13-7-41
Gefr. Hugo Ehlert 3/1 flck ABT 53 13-7-41
U. Schurt Otto Luderer 16/LSS A. H. 13-7-41
Obergeft Fritz Kempa 15-7-41
The other headstones are either obscured or poorly visible
I wonder where these graves were located. Probably under a parking lot now.by humble collector
You bring up an excellent point. Who knows???? From what I can tell from the loop. These soldiers died btw 13-7-41---18-7-41.
I'll post more photos in the near future 😊
I wonder what they did to earn the hanging? One would have thought a simple shooting would have sufficed. Must have been a serious thing to go to all the trouble. I've noticed too, over the years, that the Germans took a Lot of graves photos. Seems odd, to the Western way of thinking, but must have been a German thing.
William
"Much that once was, is lost. For none now live who remember it."
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