Suicide wehrpass???????Help please.

[Brad Haner]

I was translating this wehrpass and am I reading this correctly....my translating skills do leave some doubt.Did this chap commit suicide?

[Eric JB]

Hi Brad,

Yes you are right, your chap took his own life on the railway station Hamburg-Altona.

Entries like these aren't often seen in these booklets.

yours
Eric-Jan Bakker

[Brad Haner]

Thanks Eric,I aquired this in a trade a year ago.I collect Reichsbahn items and the collector who had it said it was Reichsbahn related.Boy I guess it is.....

Brad

[Eric JB]

Brad,

For sure and without any doubt this is REICHSBAHN related !!!!!!!!!!!!, and not a Reichsbahn item you will find again soon I think, as a Reichsbahn item this is one of a kind.


yours
Eric-Jan Bakker

[Ian Jewison]

Looks like as a result of Dekapitation!?!??!?!

/Ian

[milcollector]

He must have jumped on to the rail tracks as a train was passing.

[milcollector]

He must have jumped on to the rail tracks as a train was passing.
Maybe he was at the station waiting to catch a train back to his unit after home leave and just couldnt handle the idea of a return to combat.
December 1943, things were pretty intense on the combat fronts. There must have been many thousands of soldier suicides.

[Eric JB]

Ian,

I too red it as Dekapitation but the word isn't in my simple german dictionary.
And the only word I was able to find as a translation back to german was Enthaupten.

Need a better dictionary I think.

yours
Eric-Jan Bakker

[Ian Jewison]

Hi Eric-Jan,

It is not in my dictionanry either, however there is not a lot else that it could be!
I have just checked Wikipedia and it says that enthaupten is from Latin and Dekapitation is from the French décapiter.

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enthaupten

Regards,
Ian

[Brad Haner]

Hey a great big thank you guys.You confirmed what I thought I was translating for the most part........I really thought I was reading it wrong.Would anyone care to see the rest?Otherwise its going to be put away.

Thanks again

[erichcraciun]

What units did this man serve with?

Erich

[Tim DC]

Hi Brad, yes please show us more pages!

[Brad Haner]

sorry for the delay.....here is whats in the rest of the book.

[Brad Haner]

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