Kassel finds 2nd part

[Angel Farré]

His final rank was Leutnant and he was taken prisioner by the russians on July 27th, 1.944 and returned to his home on December 27th, 1.947.

He worked in Hamburg and in his company also worked other veterans from WW I and WW II who expressed his condolences after his death.

Angel

[Angel Farré]

Unafortunately with the group comes some medals that claimed to be the ones from him, but I highly doubt it because the EK I has some writing in the back with no sense if was Tanczos one, but price was good without the medals so they were a nice adding surprise.

First EK II "40" marked

Angel

[Angel Farré]

Reverse of the cross

Angel

[Angel Farré]

"His" Ostmedaille

[Angel Farré]

Back

[Angel Farré]

GAB, unafortunately all finish gone

[Angel Farré]

Backside

[Angel Farré]

Here comes the principal suspect of being an added medals to a document group, an Iron Cross 1st class heavy damaged (looks like a tank rolled over it)

Angel

[Angel Farré]

Back where is the engraving, handdone and nothing related with Tanczos, later I will try to decypher it and put it here so, maybe, someone can put some light on it.

Angel

[ehansl02]

Hi,

sadly i have to say, that this group is put togeter......

At the Gunzenhausen show a dealer offered this group, too.
But: at this time there were 2 KC cases (without KC), a document to the ostmedaille and someting else included.

The price was around 7000 EUr.

[Angel Farré]

I have suspected so, but price I paid was good enough for the documents so medals were a premium, too bad they are not the ones from him, but....

Thanks

Angel

[ehansl02]

The group is in good hands now and that´s the most important thing, i think.....

[münster]

I think I have seen the group also. The engraving on back of the EK1 looks like a street address.

[Eric JB]

There was a dealer selling an "original" all to one person DKiG group.
Documents and awards were clearly put together......the airgunners badge did have a different name engraved on the back.
Maybe others did see that group too ???, DKiG marked 20 with the broken catch.....the box didn't pass the black-light test !!!

yours
Eric-Jan

, the documents and photos you show here are great, a real combat soldier !

[J. Csernus]

hello

just some guessing to the misspelling on the RK document: Tanczos is originaly a hungarian name (it means dancer). A hungarian CZ is the equivalent of the german Z...so maybe the name was written down by a german just after hearing his name.
I don't know if the grouping is put together or not, but nice stuff anyway.
congratulations