Lot 8572
Four war diaries of the SS Police Leader and Commander of the Gendarmerie in Bozen-Gries (Corpo d'Armata), October 1943 to 13 May 1945.
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Description
Identical DIN A4 diaries with pre-printed pages. Event pages kept in detail in German, with “Kriegsranglisten” recorded in volumes 1 and 3. Volume 1 from 1.10.1943 to 5.6.44, volume 2 to 28.11.44, volume 3 to 30.3.1945 and volume 4 to 13.5.45 with a pages-long addendum dated 13.4.1946. Additionally, partly hectographed multi-page documents on the keeping of war diaries from August 1944, 30 photos of the murder of the NCOs of the Schp. Willi Meyer and of Unterwachtmeister Johann Gasser of the Gendarmerieposten Mezzolombardo in July/August 1944, including crime scene photographs, the burial as well as photos of Unterwachtmeister Josef Reiner, arrested on suspicion of murder. Interesting documents on the History of the police Regiment South Tirol, established on 1.10.1943 and garrisoned at the military barracks Gries-Moritzing near Bozen.Condition: II Questions about the lot?