History saved from the trash

**CSW** · 09-11-2020, 07:52 PM

Thank you for the story Jim, that really is exceptionally fascinating. Can't wait to see the documents!

**Espenlaub Militaria** · 09-11-2020 07:52 PM

We also buy and trade your items and full collections!

**helmet2id** · 09-12-2020, 01:21 PM

Excerpts from the final plea of a Krupp defendant Dr. Heinz Korschan.

**helmet2id** · 09-12-2020, 01:24 PM

Mods, can you rotate the images? I just can’t seem to get them to load properly. Thanks, Jim G.

**helmet2id** · 09-12-2020, 01:26 PM

by helmet2id

Excerpts from the final plea of a Krupp defendant Dr. Heinz Korschan.

One of the hundreds of folders in the box of pleadings I recovered from the dumpster.

**helmet2id** · 09-12-2020, 02:03 PM

The Closing Brief for the Defense for the defendant Max Ihn

**Wooffy** · 09-13-2020, 09:48 PM

On the back of this, I managed to find a digitized file housed at the University of Georgia, School of law, entitled: "Final Plea on behalf of Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach and Max Ihn" - 152 page scan of the original document - available here: https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/c...&context=nmt10

**sweersz** · 09-14-2020, 01:36 AM

Incredible court documents, thanks for sharing!

I dumpster dive multiple times a week with my girlfriend. One time we found about twenty WW2 books that I gave to my brother without flipping through them first... then he tells me he found a whole bunch of personal photos inside them from an American vet, presumably from the Vietnam War. The soldier was a skilled artist too because there were also beautiful pin-up women sketches he did in there as well as pointillisms of nude women which were on point!

My brother and I figured out the guy's name and we looked him up online. It turns out he recently passed away, and it is our belief that his family just threw out his old books.

Anyway, from my dumpster diving experience, finding military stuff is rare. However, recently I found some nice old Navy patches!

**sweersz** · 09-14-2020, 01:49 AM

Also, hanging up in my office is an original fallout shelter sign that my dad found at a scrapyard that we used to visit regularly. We've found some really awesome stuff there but I've always told him that my dream would be to find a fallout shelter sign. A couple years later, bang! He finds one. He told me it was in the scrap pile looking at him and he could see it from a mile away. Check out the backside -- pretty cool to see it was against a brick wall for years!