Hi all!
I found some photos of a man serving in 2/305 RAD Abt. in 1937. RAD Abt. 2/305 belonged to Arbeitsgau XXX (Bayern) and was stationed in Pfronten i. Allgäu, near the Austrian border.
The photos were unfortunately taken off a period album, to be sold seperately. Realizing that the group would be possibly split, i felt compelled to buy the 24 photos, so that they would stay together. Unfortunately again, I couldn't see if any other photos offered for sale would belong to the same man, later serving in an armed branch.
I thought that I would post these, as some of them might be of interest, as they are showing the camp, which must have been abolished. Using the landmarks (Pfronten, Mt. Falkenstein and the hills opposite to it) on google maps, there was nothing but fields in a hypothetical triangle, formed between them.
Cheers, Giorgos
"Arbeitsdienstlager Pfronten", April 11, 1937
<a href="http://s614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/?action=view¤t=rad1.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/rad1.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
The same, with Mt. and Castle Falkenstein (highest castle ruin of Germany, built in 1059) in the background.
<a href="http://s614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/?action=view¤t=rad2.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/rad2.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
"Beim Exerzieren im Lager"
<a href="http://s614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/?action=view¤t=rad4.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/rad4.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
<a href="http://s614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/?action=view¤t=rad3.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/rad3.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
<a href="http://s614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/?action=view¤t=rad5.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/rad5.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
"Beim Antreten zum Mittagessen"
<a href="http://s614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/?action=view¤t=rad6.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/rad6.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
Some "Kameraden"
<a href="http://s614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/?action=view¤t=rad7.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/rad7.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
<a href="http://s614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/?action=view¤t=rad8.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/rad8.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
A small diamond I think, "Generalarbf. Baumann b. Gausportfest i. Füssen, 27/28 VI. 37"
<a href="http://s614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/?action=view¤t=rad9.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/rad9.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
Kitchen and lunch at the same event
<a href="http://s614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/?action=view¤t=rad10.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/rad10.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
<a href="http://s614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/?action=view¤t=rad11.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/rad11.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
Barracks
<a href="http://s614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/?action=view¤t=rad12.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/rad12.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
<a href="http://s614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/?action=view¤t=rad13.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/rad13.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
<a href="http://s614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/?action=view¤t=rad14.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/rad14.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
And again with some "Kameraden". The owner must be the one with the sports shirt.
<a href="http://s614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/?action=view¤t=rad15.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/rad15.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
<a href="http://s614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/?action=view¤t=rad16.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/rad16.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
<a href="http://s614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/?action=view¤t=rad17.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/rad17.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
The commander of 2/305 (?)
<a href="http://s614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/?action=view¤t=rad18.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/rad18.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
"Auf der Baustelle"
<a href="http://s614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/?action=view¤t=rad19.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/rad19.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
<a href="http://s614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/?action=view¤t=rad20.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/rad20.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
"Beim Reinigungsdienst"
<a href="http://s614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/?action=view¤t=rad21.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/rad21.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
<a href="http://s614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/?action=view¤t=rad22.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/rad22.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
"Generalappel"
<a href="http://s614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/?action=view¤t=rad23.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/rad23.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
And the last one...
<a href="http://s614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/?action=view¤t=rad24.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/rad24.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
I found some photos of a man serving in 2/305 RAD Abt. in 1937. RAD Abt. 2/305 belonged to Arbeitsgau XXX (Bayern) and was stationed in Pfronten i. Allgäu, near the Austrian border.
The photos were unfortunately taken off a period album, to be sold seperately. Realizing that the group would be possibly split, i felt compelled to buy the 24 photos, so that they would stay together. Unfortunately again, I couldn't see if any other photos offered for sale would belong to the same man, later serving in an armed branch.
I thought that I would post these, as some of them might be of interest, as they are showing the camp, which must have been abolished. Using the landmarks (Pfronten, Mt. Falkenstein and the hills opposite to it) on google maps, there was nothing but fields in a hypothetical triangle, formed between them.
Cheers, Giorgos
"Arbeitsdienstlager Pfronten", April 11, 1937
<a href="http://s614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/?action=view¤t=rad1.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/rad1.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
The same, with Mt. and Castle Falkenstein (highest castle ruin of Germany, built in 1059) in the background.
<a href="http://s614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/?action=view¤t=rad2.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/rad2.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
"Beim Exerzieren im Lager"
<a href="http://s614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/?action=view¤t=rad4.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/rad4.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
<a href="http://s614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/?action=view¤t=rad3.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/rad3.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
<a href="http://s614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/?action=view¤t=rad5.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/rad5.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
"Beim Antreten zum Mittagessen"
<a href="http://s614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/?action=view¤t=rad6.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/rad6.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
Some "Kameraden"
<a href="http://s614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/?action=view¤t=rad7.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/rad7.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
<a href="http://s614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/?action=view¤t=rad8.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/rad8.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
A small diamond I think, "Generalarbf. Baumann b. Gausportfest i. Füssen, 27/28 VI. 37"
<a href="http://s614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/?action=view¤t=rad9.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/rad9.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
Kitchen and lunch at the same event
<a href="http://s614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/?action=view¤t=rad10.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/rad10.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
<a href="http://s614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/?action=view¤t=rad11.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/rad11.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
Barracks
<a href="http://s614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/?action=view¤t=rad12.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/rad12.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
<a href="http://s614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/?action=view¤t=rad13.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/rad13.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
<a href="http://s614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/?action=view¤t=rad14.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/rad14.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
And again with some "Kameraden". The owner must be the one with the sports shirt.
<a href="http://s614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/?action=view¤t=rad15.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/rad15.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
<a href="http://s614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/?action=view¤t=rad16.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/rad16.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
<a href="http://s614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/?action=view¤t=rad17.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/rad17.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
The commander of 2/305 (?)
<a href="http://s614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/?action=view¤t=rad18.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/rad18.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
"Auf der Baustelle"
<a href="http://s614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/?action=view¤t=rad19.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/rad19.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
<a href="http://s614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/?action=view¤t=rad20.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/rad20.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
"Beim Reinigungsdienst"
<a href="http://s614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/?action=view¤t=rad21.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/rad21.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
<a href="http://s614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/?action=view¤t=rad22.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/rad22.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
"Generalappel"
<a href="http://s614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/?action=view¤t=rad23.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/rad23.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
And the last one...
<a href="http://s614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/?action=view¤t=rad24.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt226/stray_dog/rad24.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>