Panzer Police Stug Soldbuch

[Panzer Rob]

Page 02:

[Eric JB]

Very well done........it burned me too, it looked fine to me as well.

yours friendly

Eric-Jan

[Richard P]

Here is my response if anyone is interested: http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...=436446&page=3

I don't quite understand how anyone else was "burned" besides myself. I personally feel I came out smelling like a rose, but that's me.

Richard

[Eric JB]

Richard,

Burned is a heavy weighted word.

When the problem is only the man's signature under his photo, that "burned" is something more like a storm in a tea cup.

yours friendly

Eric-Jan

[Richard P]

Rob, Eric-Jan, and anyone else interested. Here are the other entries, since I don't read German I assume this was items of issue? Would there be entries there too if it was still unissued? Thanks,

If anyone does translations of the stamps and hand written things, I would pay for it.

Richard

[Richard P]

2.

[Panzer Rob]

Would there be entries there too if it was still unissued? Thanks,

Richard

Those are entries for gear issue and in this case have noting to do with whether or not the Soldbuch was issued and used.

Look at the date on page 02 - 24.November 1944. This is the date the Soldbuch would have been actually issued to Nikolini - it would not have been in his hands before this date. The entries on the Bekleidung pages are dated 01.Oct.1944 which pre-date when the Soldbuch would have been issued. The fact that Nikolini's signature does not appear on page 02 nor under the photograph (again, the latter of which there are 100% original exceptions) tells me that the Soldbuch was never issued to Nikolini. There is no way he would be walking around even a automotive engineering school without a signed Soldbuch. Especially not this late in the war.

I can think of a few possibilities why there are gear entries listed that pre-date when the Soldbuch was to be issued, one being that that upon his arrival he was issued some basic items which obviously would have been documented and recorded into the SB he was to be issued, but he was transferred out before this Soldbuch was actually issued to him... maybe he never finished the training course/school - called up to active duty perhaps ??? (which to me seems the most logical explanation.) Another could be that this was intended to be a Zweitschrift (Replacement) that was filled out but for whatever reason, never issued to Nikolini... Although there are no "Zweitschrift" entries, but then these might have been entered at the time Nikolini signed the book (???) These are just speculation on my part of course!

Regardless, without a "Nikolini" signature on page 02 or any entries in the SB dated after 24.November 1944 IMHO the book never reached Nikolini. Again, this is just my opinion, but also why I did not purchase it last year.

Hope this helps.
Rob

[Panzer Rob]

Anyone else have an opinion on this one?

Rob