I just got off of the phone with a friend of mine who lives down south. He answered an ad for German relics that was in a local paper, what he found when he arrived at the guys house was very impressive if true.
It turns out that a relative of this guy had died and they had to settle the estate. When they searched the attic of the dead mans house they found an army footlocker. Inside of the footlocker they found a 98 mauser, a flag, a bunch of medals wrapped up in some kind of uniform, a sword, and three photo albums along with newspapers and loose photos.
Looking at the albums they remembered the guys old stories that circulated around the family about him being in Himmlers house and liberating some of his belongings.
Anyway my friend looked over the albums and he said he almost **** his pants. He said that one of the albums was of Himmler and his family in Italy on some sort of state visit to Mussolini. Many pics of famous historical sites there and of Italian dignitaries of the time. The other two albums were all military shots of famous Nazis and soldiers and SS types. A large quantity of the photos have SS stamps and many more are signed in green ink by Himmler himself. The wordings are mostly just the name of the person in the photo or some anecdotal remark.
I asked my buddy what he thought about the items and he said he thought they were authentic. He is no expert on WW2 photos but he has a good eye for 60 year old relics.
My first thought was to try to find out as much as I can about these items as this is just not my area. If anyone can corraborate any of the info that I currently have, than I may have to drive south and see for myself. All I really know right now is that the veteran was in the 36th div and was one of the first soldiers into this particular house. I have two photos of this house which is purported to be Himmlers. One pic shows the outside of the house and the other pic shows the inside of the house with a bunch of GI's sitting around a window looking at one of these albums. The GI who liberated these items is in the picture.
My friend also took more pics of some of these photos from the albums layed out on a bed, he is sending them to me in the morning. He also said that he has never seen any of these pictures in print before.
Well, what do you guys in the know think? Any information will be of help. Has anyone heard of this before, scam? Jeff
It turns out that a relative of this guy had died and they had to settle the estate. When they searched the attic of the dead mans house they found an army footlocker. Inside of the footlocker they found a 98 mauser, a flag, a bunch of medals wrapped up in some kind of uniform, a sword, and three photo albums along with newspapers and loose photos.
Looking at the albums they remembered the guys old stories that circulated around the family about him being in Himmlers house and liberating some of his belongings.
Anyway my friend looked over the albums and he said he almost **** his pants. He said that one of the albums was of Himmler and his family in Italy on some sort of state visit to Mussolini. Many pics of famous historical sites there and of Italian dignitaries of the time. The other two albums were all military shots of famous Nazis and soldiers and SS types. A large quantity of the photos have SS stamps and many more are signed in green ink by Himmler himself. The wordings are mostly just the name of the person in the photo or some anecdotal remark.
I asked my buddy what he thought about the items and he said he thought they were authentic. He is no expert on WW2 photos but he has a good eye for 60 year old relics.
My first thought was to try to find out as much as I can about these items as this is just not my area. If anyone can corraborate any of the info that I currently have, than I may have to drive south and see for myself. All I really know right now is that the veteran was in the 36th div and was one of the first soldiers into this particular house. I have two photos of this house which is purported to be Himmlers. One pic shows the outside of the house and the other pic shows the inside of the house with a bunch of GI's sitting around a window looking at one of these albums. The GI who liberated these items is in the picture.
My friend also took more pics of some of these photos from the albums layed out on a bed, he is sending them to me in the morning. He also said that he has never seen any of these pictures in print before.
Well, what do you guys in the know think? Any information will be of help. Has anyone heard of this before, scam? Jeff
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