Personal effects

**Zeller** · 05-10-2008, 08:52 AM

I start this thread with a niche topic: personal effects of the german infantryman during WW2. The items I'll post are mainly dug, but if you have more things to add you're welcome

metal razor, found in a gebirgsjäger camp

detail

bakelite razor

aluminium soap box

bakelite butterdose (I'm looking for an orange one for my collection!

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end of part 1

**Espenlaub Militaria** · 05-10-2008 08:52 AM

We also buy and trade your items and full collections!

**ironcross1** · 05-11-2008, 07:19 AM

Hi Matt , very nice collection of personal items , im starting to get interested more in these myself , they show another side of life for the combat soldier , looking forward to seeing more , cheers Raymond

**Adrian Stevenson** · 05-11-2008, 09:40 PM

Here is a bar of Heer issue soap. Found on the Channel Islands many years ago.

The soap is quite course and gritty in texture.

Cheers, Ade.

**Adrian Stevenson** · 05-11-2008, 09:44 PM

Small private purchase sewing kit. Retailed under the name of the "Comrades help"

Cheers, Ade.

**Adrian Stevenson** · 05-11-2008, 09:48 PM

Wartime "Scho Ka Kola" chocolate tin and original contents.

Even though the chocolate is now white with age it still smells really good!

Cheers, Ade.

**Adrian Stevenson** · 05-11-2008, 09:52 PM

Wartime Dutch cigarettes made from home grown tabacco.

People were encouraged to grow tabacco at home; they then sold the leaves to a the company to make this "Amateur Cigarettes" brand.

Still full and unopened. I often wonder how things like this survive? Tabacco was a very valueable product in 1945 and became better than money in many European countries ravaged by war.

Cheers, Ade.

**ironcross1** · 05-12-2008, 07:45 AM

Great collection Adrian , i would say there wouldnt be many blocks of the soap around today , you mention its quite corse and gritty , i remember as a kid we had soap like that it was called sand soap, i remember getting scrubed with , not the greatest . cheers mate Raymond

**Ben Evans** · 05-12-2008, 07:51 AM

I beg them smokes would be strong Ade

(but not as strong as them Russian one you had a Muckleburgh)

**Adrian Stevenson** · 05-12-2008, 02:44 PM

Some eating irons.

Hi Raymond, I think this was a multi purpose soap that you could use on the body as well as on clothes.

Hi Ben, Lez still has a few Russian smokes which she keeps for use at shows.

Cheers, Ade.