Hi Guys ! I would like to share with you this interesting ID. The circumstances under which I got it are surprising : I wasd called by a WW1 collector from a nearby village.... He had found 6 SB's in an old barn being renovated... Drove there quickly, and really 6 very damaged ID's were proposed to me... The price was really too high for this condition, and I just bought the best one, presented thereafter.
Id's for a soldier who was fighting in Norway, first among the Geb.Träger.Btl.55, and the Vet.Komp.295 at the end of the war. But interesting were for me both mention on first page. "Dépôt 201 and POW Number" means this soldier was prisoner at the "Dépôt de prisonniers de guerre de l'Axe N°201" located in Pouxeux and Epinal (Vosges). The second mention is really awesome "Saint-Michel sur Meurthe" (the french village where the whole Stuff was found) "Spec. = IMO means "Spécialiste" and Mr.Tisserand P. 29.6.46. I got quickly the infos, this Mr.Tisserand led a masonry firm. So, the Prisoners were for him a cheap Labour.... One of the other SB wore also the mention "Evadé" ("Escaped"), and I assume that all 6 prisoners escaped together to return to Germany (Saint-Michel sur Meurthe is approx 120km from the Boarder). Of course, all the personal Papers were kept by Mr.Tisserand, that's the reason why they stated in the barn.... After quick internet Researches, I discovered that Sebastian Jenuwein passed away in his village of origin in 1994....
The POW camp in Pouxeux was considered by many prisoners as a real "death camp", more of 1500 prisoners died there of starvation, exhaustion and mistreatments.
I will of course try to contact the heirs in order to have - if possible - about this story.
The SB itself is interesting, first because it still contained two of the awards documents, and because of the "Lapplandschild " Entry on page 21.
Id's for a soldier who was fighting in Norway, first among the Geb.Träger.Btl.55, and the Vet.Komp.295 at the end of the war. But interesting were for me both mention on first page. "Dépôt 201 and POW Number" means this soldier was prisoner at the "Dépôt de prisonniers de guerre de l'Axe N°201" located in Pouxeux and Epinal (Vosges). The second mention is really awesome "Saint-Michel sur Meurthe" (the french village where the whole Stuff was found) "Spec. = IMO means "Spécialiste" and Mr.Tisserand P. 29.6.46. I got quickly the infos, this Mr.Tisserand led a masonry firm. So, the Prisoners were for him a cheap Labour.... One of the other SB wore also the mention "Evadé" ("Escaped"), and I assume that all 6 prisoners escaped together to return to Germany (Saint-Michel sur Meurthe is approx 120km from the Boarder). Of course, all the personal Papers were kept by Mr.Tisserand, that's the reason why they stated in the barn.... After quick internet Researches, I discovered that Sebastian Jenuwein passed away in his village of origin in 1994....
The POW camp in Pouxeux was considered by many prisoners as a real "death camp", more of 1500 prisoners died there of starvation, exhaustion and mistreatments.
I will of course try to contact the heirs in order to have - if possible - about this story.
The SB itself is interesting, first because it still contained two of the awards documents, and because of the "Lapplandschild " Entry on page 21.
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