Help needed.German officers and text of card

[The Prussian]

Hello gentlemen!

I?ve got this nice photocard. Does anyone knows, who they are and what the text on the backside says?

Thanx a lot in advance!

[The Prussian]

the backside

[Guest Rick Research]

That is BAD!!!!!

Reverse

Gro?herzog von Baden in S....alki 26.7/16

Gesamtaufnahme mit den Offizieren

des Landsturmbat Heidelberg

what truly AWFUL scribbling!!!! I learned German this way.... yikes.

[The Prussian]

Hi Rick!

Tghank you very much for your help! Me, german born, I have problem with that "S?tterlin" script. If it?s written clearly, it ain?t no problem, but sometimes... no chance...

Thanx a lot again!!!

[0009]

The missing word is "Suvalki". It's a town somewhere in Belorussia. I think Grossherzog visits positions on Eastern front.

[The Prussian]

Hi 0009!

Thank you for your answer. That?s a blame to me (german), not able to read this...

Now I?ll have to look, which units were there

[Guest Rick Research]

Well, you have an excellent excuse if you weren't in school in 1943 or very very weird like me. (Actually, Sutterlin is about the same as English handwriting from the 1600s, so I got "two for the price of one" here in old New England....)

[The Prussian]

Well, I haven?t beemn in school 1943 (born 67), but I think, I?m as weird as you, mate...

The proper S?tterlin ain?t no problem, the problems start, if they wrote it fast. In Germany we say, "he writes like a doctor writing your prescriptions" That means, no one else could read it, but himself...

Edited April 23, 2009 by The Prussian