Hello,
I would like to show you the grouping from my grandfather - The reason for me to start collecting militaria (navy/u-boat) 27 years ago.
I startet to collect when I was eleven years old cause the stories about the wartime that my grandpa told me were very exciting and interesting.
My grandpa told me that he didn´t have items from the war time anymore. Only a small photoalbum but no medals or docs.
My mother moved into a new house a couple of months ago and she asked me if I would like to have paperstuff from grandpa!!!!
I said, "of course" and she gave me his soldbook and his Seefahrtsbuch (after war).......GREAT find, because I didn´t expected that there was anything left like this!
My grandpa is now 87 years old, but he is very dementia and not able to find the right words to talk with others. My grandpas brother (photo 11 and 12) was a Paratrooper and the only thing I know is, that he jumped in Monte Cassino.-My grandfather and his brother haven´t had contact the last 40 years. His brother died 2 years ago.
The beautiful women on photo 1, 7 and 15 is my grandmother. She died three years ago, she was a great person and a perfect grandma. Photo No. 9 shows the father from my grandma.......he was driver in a infanterie regiment and later a POW in Russia. He returned from the war in 1954!
My grandfather was radio operator on U-657 and he survived the war cause he was ill at the time his boat sunk! If my grandpa haven´t had problems with his gastric, my mother wouldn´t be, my sister wouldn´t be, I wouldn´t be.....and so on.
In 1944 my grandmother getaway to a small town in Bavaria and my grandfather startet to search for her. The only information he had, was that she should be somewhere (!) in Bavaria. Fortunately he found her!!!
I think it´s a typical story about the wartime and I think that happenings like these is the beginning for a lot collectors to get in touch with militara items.
The story behind a EK 2nd class and a u-boat badge is sometimes very interesting.
thanks for your interest,
Mathias
I would like to show you the grouping from my grandfather - The reason for me to start collecting militaria (navy/u-boat) 27 years ago.
I startet to collect when I was eleven years old cause the stories about the wartime that my grandpa told me were very exciting and interesting.
My grandpa told me that he didn´t have items from the war time anymore. Only a small photoalbum but no medals or docs.
My mother moved into a new house a couple of months ago and she asked me if I would like to have paperstuff from grandpa!!!!
I said, "of course" and she gave me his soldbook and his Seefahrtsbuch (after war).......GREAT find, because I didn´t expected that there was anything left like this!
My grandpa is now 87 years old, but he is very dementia and not able to find the right words to talk with others. My grandpas brother (photo 11 and 12) was a Paratrooper and the only thing I know is, that he jumped in Monte Cassino.-My grandfather and his brother haven´t had contact the last 40 years. His brother died 2 years ago.
The beautiful women on photo 1, 7 and 15 is my grandmother. She died three years ago, she was a great person and a perfect grandma. Photo No. 9 shows the father from my grandma.......he was driver in a infanterie regiment and later a POW in Russia. He returned from the war in 1954!
My grandfather was radio operator on U-657 and he survived the war cause he was ill at the time his boat sunk! If my grandpa haven´t had problems with his gastric, my mother wouldn´t be, my sister wouldn´t be, I wouldn´t be.....and so on.
In 1944 my grandmother getaway to a small town in Bavaria and my grandfather startet to search for her. The only information he had, was that she should be somewhere (!) in Bavaria. Fortunately he found her!!!
I think it´s a typical story about the wartime and I think that happenings like these is the beginning for a lot collectors to get in touch with militara items.
The story behind a EK 2nd class and a u-boat badge is sometimes very interesting.
thanks for your interest,
Mathias
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