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    #1

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

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

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      #3
      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

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        #4
        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

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          #5
          Looks like as a result of Dekapitation!?!??!?!

          /Ian
          Photos/images copyright © Ian Jewison collection

          Collecting interests: Cavalry units, 1 Kavallerie/24 Panzer Division, Stukageschwader 1

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            #6
            He must have jumped on to the rail tracks as a train was passing.

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              #7
              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.

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                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

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                  #9
                  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
                  Photos/images copyright © Ian Jewison collection

                  Collecting interests: Cavalry units, 1 Kavallerie/24 Panzer Division, Stukageschwader 1

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                    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

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                      #11
                      What units did this man serve with?

                      Erich

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                        #12
                        Hi Brad, yes please show us more pages!

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