Deutschland documents and photo album

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Hello,
After many years, finally getting around to posting this document and photo album grouping for a soldier in SS Regiment Deutschland. I got this from a close friend/antique dealer in Liberec, Czech Republic, a city formerly known as Reichenberg and capitol of the Sudetengau during the Third Reich. He got this from a picker who said he got it from the home of the former owner. I know nothing of the history of the soldier, but based on the documentation he was probably originally from the Reichenberg area, though I'm not sure if he survived the war or not.

I have shown this to several people at shows and have no doubt as to originality, but I decided to post it here as I thought the photos especially would be of interest to SS uniform collectors. I'll start with the documents first as they are part of the history as well. Please bear with me as my photo skills aren't the best and it took a lot of hours to take and edit them and I may not be able to post them all in one shot today, but I'll try. Also, the photos are IMO originally mounted in the album and in the order they were when I got them, though I believe a few may be mixed up chronologically. I have carefully removed several of them in the past and to my knowledge, they unfortunately have no descriptions or dates written on the reverse, only the typical film manufacturer marks.
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Don't know why he had two of these, one as a civilian? radio operator and one as an SS-Sturmann, but they came this way.

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Not sure if this was a relative with a misspelling to the name, but it came with the grouping.

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A document where he attended a specialy munitions? worker course in Beneschau, Bohemia.

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He apparently received his Ostmedaille while training at Beneschau.

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His IAB, presumably in silver, and I believe signed by Bittrich.

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His wound badge, presumably earned in Russia, and issued many months later from a lazarett in or near his hometown.

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His EK2, presumably earned in Holland, France or Belgium and signed by "Papa" Hausser

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Hausser's signature and a bank folder from Reichenberg that the documents were stored in when I got the group.

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Last, a paper about motherhood that has Mueller's name written on the reverse, which I didn't photograph.

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Now for the photo album. Unfortunately, I forgot to photograph the album itself, but it's a standard brown cloth covered album with only the word "Erinnerungen" pasted to the front. Each page is protected by thin onionskin paper. The first two pages each have mounts for a single photo, but these were missing when I got the group. All other photos are present and I have taken pictures in the order they appear, only enlarging a few of them, and all pages are photographed.

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Papa Hausser