WW2 German 'Killed In Action' Memorial Death Notice & Photograph Album Waffen SS , Army , Luftwaffe & Kriegsmarine

A fascinating WW2 period German album filled with the photographs & related death cards & notices of individual German soldier casualties.
Recording the toll that war brought upon the German people this album has the studio portrait photographs of each soldier as well as cutouts of the notices that were published at the time in local newspapers giving information on their death. Each soldiers immediate family would normally have a death card to give out to friends & other family these being gathered here in memorial to those represented.
A head & shoulders shot of an SS Sturmann killed in Latvia in September 1944 with his newspaper notice & death notice are mounted on one of the double pages, there are also two soldiers that have the Commanding Officer typed next of kin letters to their families mounted in the album with them. These letters are reports to the family on the circumstances of their loved ones death. Other entries include Waffen SS soldier notices ( One killed August 1944 in Normandy ,a Kriegsmarine Leutnant killed at sea with photo & a helmeted shot of an army soldier in M36 tunic .
There are many individual stories to browse here many of those included not having yet reached the young age of 25.

Code: 8171