Matvey73

Archeology the Kursk arch. The original?

Thanks Friends! It was heavy - spoons are not present also socks with holes. The ship? It is possible to learn?

Help with text translation of a card. An accessory of a vessel?

Photo Cleaning of a potato the Interesting plot of cleaning of a potato. Help with text translation of a card. An accessory of a vessel? Thanks Friends for the help!

Yes a brand. Assmann ... Other photos are not present. The seller is assured that the original. I that a copy. Here my of archeology.

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New photos. Your opinion.

Eagle originality? An eagle I consider bad. Yours opinions?

There was only one variant?

My sign fake means

Friends, please opinions !

Excuse for bad photos. I wish to buy this badge. The original?

Thanks.

Prompt please on authenticity

Prompt please on authenticity

I did not wish to offend. War, blood, death.....

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The grandfather the Kursk arch

I am very glad to hear that Matvey. Nevertheless, I still think that it would be a good idea to let ONCE know about the find. If that is a personal ID badge, maybe they will add the information to a file. There still are tousands of "MIA"-labelled files, while such oval badges continue to appear for sale (sometimes even only halves, thus suggesting grave robbing). Remember that behind each such tag there has been a human being, with a family waiting for him. I will give you only an example, my wife's grandfather. He was a school teacher called under arms as a 2nd lieutenant in the 37th Infantry Regiment. He was wounded at Odessa in 1941 and has received two or three weeks convalescence leave to visit his family (wife, a boy and a girl). Then he left again for the front line and he never came home. He was only 30 (younger than most of the people on this forum), yet we keep referring to him as "grandfather". His children never received any veteran pension from the state as he went missing on the Eastern front (being drafted for service on the Eastern front was considered a crime during the communist regime). The cruel irony is the fact that in his last letter home he tried to encourage his wife by saying that whatever happened to him they will be provided for.

Do not forget what hides behind the acronym "MIA": the uncertainty, the waiting, the endless and most of the time pointless hope. My wife's grandmother had waited for her husband her whole life. "Maybe he will be back tomorrow." "People did come back from prison camps 10-15 years later." "His own brother came back that may years after the war. Why not him?" And so on for more than 40 years. More than they have been together. More than he lived.

I regret to you. My English bad. My relatives were lost ALL in Belarus. War is War.

I really do hope that there were no human remains with this ID tag or if there were they were given proper burial and ONCE informed. As far as I know, the oval ID tags were supposed to be broken in two when a soldier was put to rest in a temporary grave near the battlefield, one half remaining with the soldier for future identification and the other half being taken as evidence. This tag being intact, suggests a soldier killed far from friendly lines (in territory lost after an attack or even after surrendering).

There are no bones was not. I not the marauder.

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