Photo Albums of German Soldiers

[Wiseguy A]

Photo albums of German soldiers. Fully scanned photos from the personal albums of German soldiers from the Second World War and the years preceding it.

http://reibert.info/gallery/v/foto_album/

 

[DOUGLAS]

Thank you!! That is truely an amazing document of a life.

 

[Mustang]

Very cool. I just bookmarked the site. Thanks for the info. :eusa_clap

 

[Twitch]

Pretty neat. Too bad we can't decipher things better. But even in the context they are in they are interesting.

 

[leaette]

wow! how on earth did you find this?

great pics. i will share this with friends.

 

[Brinybay]

Pretty neat. Too bad we can't decipher things better. But even in the context they are in they are interesting.

Copy/paste the URL into AltaVista then select Russian to English translation. There isn't a lot to translate since the photos don't have captions, but it helps some.

 

[Twitch]

Yeah that's what I meant, photo captions. It's as though a huge box of photos was found with no explanations on them. Curious, historical but no exact detail

 

[Brinybay]

Yeah that's what I meant, photo captions. It's as though a huge box of photos was found with no explanations on them. Curious, historical but no exact detail

Which is unusual for Germans, particularly the Nazis. In most cases, they took great pains to document and note details, almost as if they had a fetish for logging everything. I wonder if rather than being personal photo albums, they were items that were issued or purchased with generic pictures in them.

I have something similar from when I went through basic training in 72. It's in book form, but other than the names of the cadre and the trainees, the photos have no captions. The most they did was label different groups of pictures, e.g. hand-to-hand, train fire, reception station, graduation, etc. Some of them weren't even the particular company we were in.