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A Humble Collector
United States
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 17 เม.ย. 2017
This channel focuses on Militaria from the first and second World Wars, and I hope to share my love of the collecting hobby with you as I grow my collection. I do unboxing videos, as well as more in depth examinations of some of the items in my collection. Thank you for taking the time to watch my videos, and read this channel description. Happy collecting!
WW2 German Death Card #219
In this video, we take a look at the 4 panel death card of Johann Feichtenschlager, a Grenadier in a Grenadier Regiment. He was killed while fighting at the village of Ryczywół in Poland. This village was the site of a lot of tragedy during the war. A battle took place there in 1939, and a small ghetto was set up there during the Holocaust. The village was completely destroyed during the fighting in 1944, around the time of Johann's death. #ww2 #militaria
Disclaimer: I collect these items for their historical significance and do not condone or support the ideals, beliefs, or actions of the Third Reich or any other totalitarian regimes.
Disclaimer: I collect these items for their historical significance and do not condone or support the ideals, beliefs, or actions of the Third Reich or any other totalitarian regimes.
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WW2 German Death Card #218
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In this video, we take a look at the 2 panel death card of Fritz Wolfl, an Obergefreiter in a Heavy Flak Replacement Company. He was killed in Italy in 1944. #ww2 #militaria Disclaimer: I collect these items for their historical significance and do not condone or support the ideals, beliefs, or actions of the Third Reich or any other totalitarian regimes.
WW2 German Death Card #217
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In this video, we take a look at the 4 panel death card of Brother Josaphat (Peter) Hadersdorfer of the Order of St. Benedict. He was a Gefreiter in Kompany 1 of Pionier Battalion 27, part of Panzer Division 17, and would die from multiple gunshot wounds at the main aid station in Orscha. #ww2 #militaria Disclaimer: I collect these items for their historical significance and do not condone or s...
WW2 German Death Card #216
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In this video, we take a look at the 2 panel death card of Georg Wolfl, who died in a Russian POW Camp. Specifically, Georg was a prisoner at Nizhny Tagil III, located outside the city of the same name. The camp was active from January 1942 to April 1953, and at its height held 43,500 POWs. The inmates were involved in working in factories, mining, timber, and civil engineering projects. #ww2 #...
WW2 German Death Card #215
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In this video we take a look at the 4 panel death card of Josef Girstl, a Gebirgs Schutze in Kompany 16 of Infantry Regiment 204, part of Light Infantry Division 97. He was killed by a mine, dying at a field hospital in Alexandrowka Ukraine. Light Infantry Division 97 would eventually be renamed Jager Division 97. #ww2 #militaria Disclaimer: I collect these items for their historical significan...
Imperial German Regimental Stein - 3rd Baden Infantry Regiment
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In this video, we take a look at a Regimental Stein for Gefreiter Kuhn, who served in the 3rd Baden Infantry Regiment from 1898 to 1900. This unit has a long history, dating back to at least the Napoleonic Wars, and was named after Margrave Louis William of Baden-Baden. During WW1, it would see fighting at Fricourt and the Meuse Argonne as Infantry Regiment 111. #ww1 #militaria Disclaimer: I co...
WW2 German Death Card #214
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In this video we take a look at the 2 panel death card of Alois Wolfl, an Oberfeldwebel. He was killed in an accident north of Warsaw near the end of 1944. #ww2 #militaria I collect these items for their historical significance and do not condone or support the ideals, beliefs, or actions of the Third Reich or any other totalitarian regimes.
WW2 German Death Card #213
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In this video we take a look at the 4 panel death card of Mathias and Franz Maier, both of whom are listed as missing and not killed. Mathias is recorded in the booklet of the military cemetery at Sologubowka, and is still missing. Franz went missing at the port of Gdynia during Operation Hannibal. It is unclear if he was killed in a bombing raid and not recovered, or if he attempted to slip aw...
WW2 German Death Card #212
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In this video, we take a look at the 4 panel death card of Josef and Alois Habersbrunner. Josef was an Obergefreiter in a Grenadier Regiment, and was killed on the Eastern Front in 1944. Alois was serving in the staff Kompany of Infantry Regiment 305, part of Infantry Division 198. He would die from shrapnel wounds to his left lower leg and right lower stomach at a field hospital in Khatyps, 75...
WW2 German Death Card #211
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In this video we take a look at the 2 panel death card of Karl Wolfl, an Unteroffizier in a Grenadier Regiment. Karl had worked in a sawmill before the war, and was killed in a bomb attack. Interestingly, it appears his daughter is also commemorated on this card. #ww2 #militaria Disclaimer: I collect these items for their historical significance and do not condone or support the ideals, beliefs...
WW2 German Death Card #210
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In this video we take a look at the 2 panel death card of Johann Wolfl, a Gefreiter in Kompany 6 of Grenadier Regiment 203, part of Infantry Division 76. He was killed by an artillery shot at Baschtina. His unit would be destroyed a few months later at Stalingrad. #ww2 #militaria Disclaimer: I collect these items for their historical significance and do not condone or support the ideals, belief...
WW1 and WW2 Militaria Unboxing 10-4-2024
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In this video, we unbox a plethora of Death Cards! In addition, we also open up a lovely collection of Imperial German regimental steins. #ww2 #ww1 #militaria Disclaimer: I collect these items for their historical significance and do not condone or support the ideals, beliefs, or actions of the Third Reich or any other totalitarian regimes.
WW2 US Death Card #1
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In this video, we take a look at the 2 panel death card of Anthony "Buff" Muren, a Corporal in the 2nd Battalion of the 16th Infantry Regiment, part of the 1st Infantry Division. He had enlisted shortly before Pearl Harbor and would survive almost the entire war before being killed in a skirmish in Imlshausen less than a month before the end of the war. He was awarded the Bronze Star for his ac...
WW2 German Death Card #209
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In this video we take a look at the 2 panel death card of Max Baumgartner, a soldier in a pioneer battalion. He was killed at the village of Licko Petrovo Selo, which had been the site of an Ustase massacre several years prior. Before joining the military, Max had served as a Scharfuhrer in the Hitler Youth. #ww2 #militaria #sterbebildseptember Disclaimer: I collect these items for their histor...
WW2 German Death Card #208
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in this video, we take a look at the 2 panel death card of Josef Wolfl, a Gefreiter in a Grenadier Regiment. Like many soldiers, the exact details of Josef's death are unknown, with my searches turning up no additional results. #ww2 #militaria #sterbebildseptember Disclaimer: I collect these items for their historical significance and do not condone or support the ideals, beliefs, or actions of...
Thanks for the upload Humble. Casualty cards for those who fell in Poland during1944 seem to be few and far between.
Thank you for sharing.
Very nice/Kool D - card this one is ! ✔️
Another nice card! 👍Thanks for sharing! 👍 Best regards from a fellow collector in Norway! 😊
If you do a Google search for: denkmalprojekt bodenmais you will find a list of WWI and WWII casualties from the small town of Bodenmais along with some pictures. The list includes no less than 23 men from the Wölfl family. I did post a direct link to that website in a comment to an earlier video, but apparently some comments are being swallowed by TH-cam for whatever reason.
Yeah I sometimes see a comment and by the time I get to replying it's gone. I didn't see your first one though, thanks for the info! I've used Denkmal before but I don't always check it. That's crazy though, 23 men from the Wolfl family. Whenever I get around to doing a video on all the cards I have for them, I'll be sure to do research on those names as well.
@@AHumbleCollector The family name Wölfl ist ubiquitous in Bodenmais. There are 40 entries in the local White Pages in a town with a population of 3616 (and not all people have their number listed these days). Denkmalprojekt also has a number of photographs of headstones which appear to include some of the names of soldiers you have mentioned in your videos. Oftentimes, parents memorialized their children who died during the war in faraway places by having their names carved onto their own headstones. Google: denkmalprojekt bodenmais einzelgedenken (I believe Google flags comments that contain URLs as spam).
My dad was a US Army Ranger at Anzio during that time period and they were ringed by a huge amount of Luftwaffe and Hermann Goering Division 88's. July was around the time they were finally breaking out on the way to Rome, so this guy could have bought it in that area. My dad was wounded by one of those 88's, BTW.
Wow thank you for sharing! Anzio was a horrible battle, I recently read a book on the 45th ID who was fighting there and the thing that really stood out to me was multiple references to captured German soldiers saying the battle there was worse than anything they saw on the Eastern Front.
@@AHumbleCollector My dad's BIL, my uncle, was a infantryman in the 45th Division from Anzio until the end of the war. Went to a couple of their reunions with him. My dad was in the Rangers until they were annihilated at Cisterna and the remaining elements were transferred to augment the USA-Canada First Special Service Force who were taking massive casualties and needed trained replacements.
Great presentation of a nice death card! Thanks for sharing 😊
Thank you for sharing.
I was curious if German ww2 war graves still exist in Russia. Short answer is yes. You can easily find out online. Also hundreds of thousands of German war graves have been moved back to Germany. On these death cards, most of these that were buried were at the cemetery indicated on the card were possibly moved to a more centralized war cemetery. What are your thoughts?
Some soldiers were moved to centralized cemeteries post war, but there is a staggering number still buried in small, forgotten cemeteries all over the old Eastern Front. The Soviets would often destroy German cemeteries as they recaptured areas, and of course if soldiers were buried in improvised graves to be reburied later the locations would be lost as the only men who knew about it were killed. There is still a staggering number of MIAs as well, who are lying forgotten in many a forest or swamp.
Holocaust is the worlds worst crime against humanity😢
Researching common atrocities that occurred from Red Army Infantry onto overrun German Hospitals, Field Aid Stations, etc. the “odd” wounds suffered by this man of God, looks to me more like Bolshevik torture methods. Soviet atrocities against captured wounded are very well documented . Especially since he was a “Man of God”, he was definitely a prime target of this treatment. What they did to Orthodox + Christian Priests, Nuns, and faithful followers speaks for itself. The crucifying, the r a p e, turning churches into literal pigsties, etc. Definitely definitely a part of the conflict that is routinely swept under the rug and lied about.
Hmmm? That many wounds? Wow. Medical orderly or maybe the aid station got strafed by Russian planes?
Either is a possibility, though if he was strafed normally they would note the wounds were caused by a plane.
Very interesting death card to a man of God, thanks for the upload.
astonishing. Thank you for this
Thank you for sharing.
I wonder what battles he was in and where he was captured, these cards really can turn into a rabbit hole
They really do! Definitely gets the imagination going.
Thank you for sharing.
Very interesting. Please translate there rank and what unit they were part of into English
I always debate whether it's worth translating the rank into English because it's not always an exact match to a US Army rank. In this case Schutze is the lowest enlisted rank, equivalent to an E-1 Private in the US Army. I'm not sure if I follow on the unit portion, as in this case he was part of a light Infantry Division as noted. Jager divisions are equivalent to light Infantry Divisions, just with changes to overall structure and equipment.
The speaker was speaking rapidly into a distant mike. Perhaps on the other side of the room. Hard to hear.😪😪😪
I'm not sure if I'm hearing the same problem as you, even on low volume I can hear fine on my phone.
Thank you for sharing.
Hi Humble. A really beautiful addition to your collection and I learnt a lot about these from video, so thank you for the upload,
Thank you for sharing.
A family who lost two sons... must have been devastating. Of course, during WW2 there were many, many families who suffered this kind loss - or even worse. I read somewhere - and I can't vouch for its accuracy - that 80% of the males who were born in the Soviet Union in 1923 died during the war. Seems high too me, however with the tremendous amount of casualties that died in the Eastern Front fighting, perhaps it is true. Good video Humble Collector, I look forward to future releases. Take care!
I've heard that statistic a few different times before, but the percentage seems to change quite a bit depending where you look. I've seen people say it was all the way into the high 90s. Regardless of what the actual percentage is, it speaks volumes that given the ferocity and scale of the fighting on the Eastern Front we can even contemplate those numbers being accurate. Glad you enjoyed the video!
Hi Humble, thanks for the upload. There is something quite poignant about death cards to the missing. An interesting story that has recently popped up is that of George Alister Walker Ewan. He was a Private in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and his grave has been identified after 80 years. It is well worth a 'google' to get the full background and story.
Hi Will, I completely agree about the death cards for the missing being particularly poignant. When a soldiers death is known, the family at least has some closure. It's sobering to think how many remain unknown after all these decades. The story you mentioned was very interesting, thank you for pointing it out to me! It's always good to hear about someone being properly identified, and goes to show the importance of research.
Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for another Video, Humble. Would anyone know the meaning of " Ert.=M.: ", found on some casualty cards ? Any help is appreciated
I'm not sure actually, I'll have to look into it.
Himthere. Sorry to butt in, but it says Erk=M and means Erkennungsmarke aka dog tag info.
Thanks Will!
Hi Humble, thanks for the upload. The bit about the awards and spacing you mention is interesting. I wonder if another reason may have been to keep costs down. What I mean by this is that maybe each line of text cost a certain amount to print, so families with less disposable income may have done this to keep costs down.
Hi Will, that's a good thought and could certainly be the case. That would also explain the number of times I've looked at cards that have the field grave style backings where the information wasn't added, while it was on a lot of other cards.
@@AHumbleCollector That is a good point about the blank field grave backing and it would make sense.
Thank you for sharing.
Respect and honor for this kind of items..very intereresting
I enjoy these very much, thanks for sharing. (I’m hoping one day you’ll have one with my German surname, but it’s not a common one. It’s popularity is in the upper 800’s per the forebears website……😂)
Thank you very much for sharing.
Thank you for sharing.
Uhhh… Where is “Thank you for sharing” guy??! This video has been up almost 6 hours and I don’t see that comment…? 🤷🏻♂️ Hope he’s OK. 😁
Hey Humble, thanks for another interesting video. I was wondering if Johann was killed in Dec 1943, does this mean he had been a member of the reformed regiment 203 after the original one was destroyed in Stalingrad? Thanks
Correct, it looks like I had that backwards in the video. He would have been part of the reformed regiment.
Really great haul Humble, thanks for the upload. The real question is..... which one of the steins will you be drinking rum from this weekend? lol.
Haha I've been tempted to clean up that small one that seems to be a later private purchase.
That is so cool that you did that!!
Looks like a copy of the newspaper obituary notice transferred to cardstock. He was in HQ Company, so he would have been close to the XO when the fight went down. Usually they were RTO MOS's and such.
Nice video, Humble
This is a touching video and it's nice to see that this young man (and he will forever be a young man) is remembered many decades after his untimely death. Just curious: were death cards ever common in the United States at all? They definitely were in Germany. Maybe Cpl. Muren's parents were immigrants?
It's rather interesting, funeral prayer cards were and are quite common in the US, but cards related to soldiers are incredibly hard to find. I really haven't found a good reason as to why that is.
Thank you for visiting his grave. It makes this presentation more real.
I'm so glad it worked out that I was out there as I was preparing for this video. I've only been able to do that one other time for a postcard video I did earlier this year.
Big Red One veteran's say that there is the 1st Infantry Division and the rest of the U.S. Army.
Thanks for doing a video a day for September, it's be great watching them.
I'm glad you enjoyed it! We'll be going back to weekly videos for a bit but March will be another month of daily uploads.
Nice of you
Well done.
Thank you for sharing.
Just to give a further context. South tyrol is mainly German speaking, the Italian speaking part is located southern in the region (around the city of Trento). The fascist regime tried in the 20 years of dictatorship to impose the sole use of italian language and culture (it even imported people from the southernmost regions of the country),ultimately giving from 1939 to 1943 the option to emigrate in nazi germany to keep the germanic culture or to remain in south tyrol but as italians. And Polizei Regiment Bozen is very well known here in Italy because a company of it was ambushed by Italian partisans in Rome leading in the death of 26 germans and the following slaughter of 335 italian civilians in the fosse ardeatine as act of vengeance.
Thank you for the extra context!
Thank you for sharing
I watch all your videos. 20 years old. Think about that. And all the young allied soldiers who poof! gone. All the children whom never were born. All the fathers whom were never fathers. All because of one psychopath who stole the dreams. Incomprehensible
It was a bit more complicated than "one psychopath who stole the dream"...
Hi Humble. The records must have been updated since you filmed this video because this very death card has been posted on the WRF death notice thread. He was with 7./Kompanie Grenadier Regiment 95. Surname: Wölfl Forename: Josef Rank: Gefreiter Date of birth: 23.05..1923 Place of birth: Bodenmais Date of death/becoming missing: 11.10.1943 Place of death/becoming missing: Nowaja-Alexandroka Verstorben : von Pferd erschlagen - Unfall Deceased : killed by horse - Accident
Hi Will, Thank you, I'll update my records! I don't think I've seen killed by horse before as a cause of death. I had a great uncle who had to stop coal mining after being kicked in the head by a mule, and I know he was lucky to walk away from that one.
@@AHumbleCollector My pleasure. Yeah, it is a very random cause for sure. Wow, your great uncle was very lucky indeed.
@@worldwarwill1278 He was lucky he got out when he did. He only worked in the mine for a few years but was written up in accident reports several times. I don't know if it was bad luck or clumsiness, but he was far better off on the farm.