WWII Sterbebilder/Death Cards from Normandie

[kristoffer]

Hello everyone,

 

This is my first post on this Forum. I collect sterbebilder from Normandie and have done so now for a few years time.

I have about 150 at the moment. I thought I would start this thread and share a few of them. 

 

I you have any in your collections feel free to post them aswell! It´s always interesting to see items from other collections. 

 

The first photo is just a shot of the last cards I bought.

 

All the best

Kristoffer

[SARGE]

Welcome Kristoffer and thanks for showing your recent finds.  I collect Police related items and would love to see any cards that you have that may be Polizei / Gendarmerie related.  It is always interesting to see what others collect so thanks for sharing.

 

 

[kristoffer]

Thank you Sarge. I have been a member on the USMF for years but recently found this Forum.

 

At the moment I don't have any police cards in my collection. 

 

Hans Egger was a SS Oberscharführer in a SS Panzer Division. He died on August 7 1944 in Normandy. He was awarded the Iron Cross first class, Wound Badge and the Panzer Assault Badge. He is listed as dead/missing at Vassy. I don't have any more information about him. 

 

[kristoffer]

D-DAY - June 6, 1944.

Jakob Amesmeier died fighting during the first day of Operation Overlord, the invasion of France. He is listed as missing/killed at Saint-Laurent-sur -Mer. This is on Omaha beach.

[kristoffer]

Sterbebild for Oskar Maurer. He was a German Fallschirmjäger part of 13 Kompanie, Fallschirmjäger Regiment 15, 5th Fallschirmjäger Division. He was an eastern front veteran. He fought and died in Normandy at Laulne.

[Salvage Sailor]

Repost

 

In both World Wars, the men in my immediate family served in the US armed forces and fought overseas against our Bavarian Cousins. Most survived, some did not.

Several were killed in Poland and Russia, but this is the Sterbebild of one of my Bavarian Cousins serving as a Vormann in the RAD (Reichsarbeitsdienst - Reich Labor Service)

 

 

 

 

He was killed in France just after the Normandy breakout.  Based upon the date, he may have died in the battle of Chamois, the last day of the closing of the 'Falaise Gap', but it's also the day that Paris was liberated, 20 August, 1944.

 

Caption:  A group of U.S. infantrymen pose in front of a wrecked German tank while displaying a captured swastika flag. The infantrymen were left behind to mop-up in Chambois, France, last stronghold of the Nazis in the Falaise Gap area. August 20, 1944.