Helmets in Stalingrad

[iguana15]

Wow,really fascinating post! It is quite moving in fact

[ROMMEL-rus]

Last two departures on fighting positions

[ROMMEL-rus]

I have washed a ruler

[spin9977]

Was kann das sein?
6/ v. Ed
Gruss

Direction sing. We fount many similar sings.Nice.

I see some of items in Stalingrad in a good and better
condition then in Demjansk. But I don't see deep bunkers,
soft leather, helmets in perfect condition with chinstrap and liner.
This ground repete me East Prussia condition and ground condition.
Awards, ID tages - absolutelly in a same condition like in Koenigsberg.

[spin9977]

Verry nice relics

But I have another question which deals with this emblem.
This find is not mine but from a Dutch detector seeker, he has found in the Netherlands in an area where Germans and Canadians have fought, but now the question of which part was the emblem, has anyone more info.

Thank you

dimensions are approximately 30 cm x 20 cm

Hey, guys, you have to know more who figthed in your area. On my opinion
it's part of wing : car/truck wing,or Motorcycle wing,
Or guns wings. or part of airplan.
We had truck wing with scull head ( Totenkopf), saw canon wing with comet ( FJ troops), and etc.

[Engelfeuer]

The Volksbund Deutscher Kriegsgräberführsorge (VBDK) is
working very hard, with voluntaries, to search, find and identify
German soldiers on hand of the ID tags.

They identify in this manner several thousend missed soldiers per year.

(around 1 million German soldiers are still missed todays).

Once they do, they can communicate to the relatives and familly what they found about their members who where missed for close to 70 years.
They excavate then the remains in order to burry them in a military cimetary.

When you dig up an ID tags without sending the datas to the VBDK,
the datas are lost forever and this is a pitty for all their work, for the families as well as for the history of this soldiers, no matter which flag they fight for.

Dear friends from Volgograd and other places, please remember this !

Except this consideration, you do a interesting search.
Chris

Chris;
The problem is these are not associated with bodies. The dogtags they are finding have been discarded by their owners, most likely people that surrendered to russians, and either survived the war or died in the soviet camps. Reporting these would not help at all, it would only let the Volksbund know that this soldier was in this area, which they would already know. If you had read this entire post, you would understand that ROMMEL-rus has not found any bodies yet, and if he does, he will report it.

My thoughts,
Craig

[spin9977]

"Perhaps we should all grab a pick and shovel and jump on a boat to Flanders then uh ???....... "

Flanders is an area where they build new houses, roads, supermarkets, etc, on areas that used to be the front. Its not all fields like in the days of Sassoon. Better have a local digger recover a few relics (and hope he reports bodies), then let things rot underground while they wait to be built over, or ploughed over...
Life goes on.

JL

JL and other members. when I've visited JL, we digg in mountains, and we have fount water canteen US ( JL) , US hand grenade(JL and me), tooth brush (US),two caffee boxes : nescafe and Kafey. ( US)- this items was my
finds. I can say. All you need just to find wish to find something. then work,work and work.
1) First get patience.
2) collect information from veterans, books, archives,
air photo in 1942 Stalingrad or Demjansk.
I know how difficult find stuff close to Nice.
But we did, you did many times.
Only lazy people didn't find anything. Cause they want fast resuadlt.
I can confirm and surely that guys from Stalingrad confirm with me that
each ID tage, each helmet, medal is not so easy to find like it looks on photo.Sometimes you spend a week to find something an interesting.

Yes, on our photo it looks amazing. If somebody saw sturm74 raport
about Smolensk and finds. his raport looks amazing I agree. and he
fount everything by himself. But photos for raport collect during several
years. Nothing to be easy.(fairy tail).

[ROMMEL-rus]

My last departures on fighting positions 1942

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[Spanish Freiwillige]

very nice finds.....

[Hummel]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBgUGhDHIg4

Leute haben Demag D7 gefunden.

[tigertoby]

I discovered this thread today, and read the whole thing. Fascinating stuff and great pictures. I've gained a new respect for relics.

[Oberbootsmann]

IMO this isn't collecting but plundering.

Have you ever reported a dugged up dog tag to the officials? There are still 1.000.000 German soldiers missing from WWII. With every reported dog tag it would be one less.