[Cactus]

Do you have any? I would love to see them if so? I am finally getting around to posting up my collection. I only own two right now. I own a rather long and large NSDAP banner. I would assume one hung from a tall building or out of a window of such. It was rather hard to photograph it all. I hung it on the clothes line downstairs in the cellar as I don't think draping out of my window for a photoshop would please my neighbors. I also just bought and recieved a German Battle flag. While much smaller in my opinion it is one of the best flags of the TR, design wise. It has some scruffs and I think like 2 small holes but it's still a beaut. So please if you have any I'd love to see them. Here are mine.

[Cactus]

[Helmut Von Moltke]

nice flag.

[Klaus]

I love your "Kriegsflagge". Wish I could own one myself. But they are kind of hard to get because they are illegal in Austria.

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[Cactus]

Klaus said:

I love you "Kriegsflagge". Wish I could own one myself. But they are kind of hard to get because they are illegal in Austria.

Ahh I know what you mean. Why not find someone to buy you mail and mail it to you wrapped in like a blanket or something like that?

[Jack the collector]

Cactus,I love those large party flags.However I noticed something,on your wall you have a SA sports armband.It appears that the glass is against it in the frame.If that is the case,this is just free advice and you use it as you wish........textiles need to breath.There should be some space between the glass and any textile.

[peter eire]

Have no flags but have these couple of medals/badges. Started collecting a few years ago when I picked up a German I.D tag (dog Tag) in an old curio shop in Dublin. Even went as far as researching the soilders unit. He was in the replacement Battilion 425 that fought on the eastern front in 1944. Even sent the details to Berlin to try and trace family to return item. They kindly replied saying unless body remains were found they would not investigate the item....I would have thought the family if their are any still alive would be only too happy to receive the i.d. disc back.

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[Jim O]

peter eire said:

I would have thought the family if their are any still alive would be only too happy to receive the i.d. disc back.

So would I...but the tag is not broken so perhaps he survived the war and later sold it or lost it. Generally, when a soldier was KIA, the tag was broken at the perforation. One part stayed on the body and the other was given to the C.O. to inform headquarters.

Nice pics, nice stuff. Thanks for posting.

[Jack the collector]

Peter,

Returning items to the family these days is next to impossible.They turned you down most likely because the dog tag you show is for someone who survived the war(possibly).If the soldier had been KIA half the dogtag would have remained with the body,the other half to graves registration.To my knowledge the best way to return the item is to a museum if you do not want to keep it.Or here is where you can start research.

Bundesarchiv - Willkommen beim Bundesarchiv

I would like to see better photos of the Juli 20 wound badge if you can front and back.I am fairly sure its a reproduction from the phto you have provided,there are still a few of these unaccounted for and it woud be fun to see another surface!!!Just last week Alfred Rosenbergs Gold Party badge surfaced in a collection.

[Cactus]

Jack the collector said:

Cactus,I love those large party flags.However I noticed something,on your wall you have a SA sports armband.It appears that the glass is against it in the frame.If that is the case,this is just free advice and you use it as you wish........textiles need to breath.There should be some space between the glass and any textile.

There is space it isn't clamped upon it like a mad man. Thanks for the headsup.

[Klaus]

@ cactus: How much did you pay for the Kriegsflagge?

[Cactus]

$360.00 USD. I couldn't pass that up since I never see a flag like this for under 400 usually 360 was with the SH and insurance and all totalled in. usually you have 390 but then xx amount sh and whatever else so i jumped on it.

[Klaus]

Whoa! That's a lot of dead Presidents!

[Cactus]

Yea it was a big spend for me but the rate things are going it's only go to go up. Hell I could sell this and buy plane and room to Dublin later on. I am glad I went ahead with it though like they say it's only money. It is meant to be spent. As long as it is something that makes you happy why not indulge once and awhile, no? =)

[Klaus]

You are perfectly right about all your points. Thats exactly what I thought when I bought my SS Helmet. The value can only rise. Not that I would sell it.

[Cactus]

I am hoping for the value to decrease this way I can buy lots of stuff and then hope it all shoots back up. I guess we can all dream

[Klaus]

Just imagine! That would be great. But there are a lot of collectors out there. Dreaming the same dream as we are.

[Helmut Von Moltke]

Sorry to bring up an old thread, but I didn't see some of the collection pics here.

Peter Eire, the wound badge in the last pic is the 20 Juli wound badge, awarded to those officers wounded durign Stauffenberg's assasination attempt on Hitler. Not many were made, only for the wounded officers and a few for propaganda display. Is yours a reproduction or original?

Regards,

K

[Lancer44]

Jim O said:

So would I...but the tag is not broken so perhaps he survived the war and later sold it or lost it. Generally, when a soldier was KIA, the tag was broken at the perforation. One part stayed on the body and the other was given to the C.O. to inform headquarters.

Nice pics, nice stuff. Thanks for posting.

Not really...
I'm in contact with explorers in Poland. They have a "code of conduct" that if they find German soldier remains with unbroken tag, they inform German agency which is responsible for exhumation and proper burial. (I forget the name of this organisation, but will find out).
When soviets advanced towards Berlin, thousands of German soldiers bodies were left behind without tags being broken. Main responsibility for burial was put on soviet burial teams and local peasants, either Polish or German.
They were working under pressure from NKVD - spring 1945 was coming fast and bodies had to be buried - they wanted to avoid problems.
In many cases graves were unmarked, No one bothered to identify...
And now with cheap metal detectors and inflated prices for any WWII memorabilia, unbroken tags sell well as "survived" fellows items.

Very bad thing... It is seriuos in Poland, but in Russia and Ukraine it may be really very bad thing. I had seen many photos of human bones and skulls, which are dug out by punks, just in their search for easy money...

L44

[Klaus]

Problem is, that you never know what you are buying. Stuff from graverobbers or the morally legal. If you could tell the difference it would be easier to say "no". But my guess is that a lot of people just don't care under what circumstances the item was found.