WW2 Death Cards 2
WW2 German Death Card (Sterbebild) for retired Vienna Police Inspector Franz Fritz Friesenecker
Died 24 May 1949. He was 68.
Nice police officer uniform photo.
Single page single sided card measures about 2.5 x 4.5 inches.
Very used condition with wear, as you can see in the scans.
$5
WW2 German Death Card (Sterbebild) for Army Obergefreiter Josef Braun, Grenadier Regiment.
Was awarded the Wound Badge.
Killed 1 September 1944. He was 31.
Double sided single page card measures about 2.75 x 4.25 inches.
Bundesarchives lists him as having served with 8 Company Grenadier Regiment 118. By August 4, 1944, they were destroyed in the Kessel von Bobruisk and reformed under 35 Volks Grenadier Division.
You can see the card has wear.
$17
WW2 German Death Card (Sterbebild) for Luftwaffe Obergefreiter Brdschütze Willi Türk, Flugzeugführerschule.
Died a flier’s death in service exercises, 22 June 1944. He was 21.
The single page double sided card measures about 2.5 x 4.5 inches.
His Bundesarchiv record lists him as being with 3 Techn. Company Flugzeugfühereschule B21 Thorn.
Used condition.
$12
WW2 German Death Card (Sterbebild) for German Army Soldat Otto Lehnen, East Prussian Pionier Batl.
Killed by Stalingrad, 29 October 1942. He was 19.
Single page single sided card measures about 2.5 x 4.25 inches.
German Graves Office lists him as killed in the area of Stalingrad and buried in Rossoschka, Russia.
Good condition.
$25
WW2 German Death Card (Sterbebild) for Eisenbahnpionier Willibald Tratzl.
Died in a Russian POW Camp, 20 September 1945. He was 43.
Single sided card measures about 2.5 x 4.5 inches. Back of card has a Psalm in red and black ink.
Very good condition.
$9
WW2 German Death Card (Sterbebild) for Army Gefreiter Ludwig Mair, Bicycle Squadron of Gebirgsjaeger.
Killed in the Northern Caucasuses, 2 October 1942. He was 21. Buried in Pschisch, Russia.
Nice Mountain Troops uniform wearing an Iron Cross ribbon.
Single sided double page card measures about 5 x 4.5 inches. Has Jesus on the back.
Good condition.
$11
WW2 German Death Card (Sterbebild) for Army Oberleutnant and Dentist Dr. Josef Meiers, Company Commander in a Machine Gun Company.. 5 Company Infantry Regiment 692
He died nine months after his mother. He survived the campaign in the West, but was badly wounded and died in a field hospital in the East, 22 February 1942. He was 31.
Double page single sided card measures about 5.75 x 4.25 inches.
Bundesarchiv lists he was shot thru the shoulder and lungs and died at motorized field hospital 1-582 in Shisdra, Russia. He was also buried there.
In very good condition.
$25
