WW 799
5 1905 French military postcards featuring a child. All but one sent to the same mother. One other child thematic military postcard dated 1916.
Price: $180.00
World War 1 & 2
WW 798
Set of 4 early advert cards by Au Bon Marche on the French military, featuring children.
Price: $200.00
WW 797
Dosier of military strategy related to the upcoming Italian invasion of Yugoslavia. Titled “exercise with division tables”, it lays out the difficulties entailed with the planned invasion. Also, in the dosier are maps reflecting the invasion of Romania in 1916 and the area around Svistov on the Danube. Also included is pasted images of specific mountains in Ethiopia, no doubt to help in understanding the terrain the Italian will be up against in Yugoslavia. Also, a 1914 painted portrait of Captain Fritz Watzeck, the dosier’s owner. The dosier is dated 29 Marzo-5 April 1940, MORE THAN TWO MONTHS BEFORE ITALY ENTERED THE WAR. It is copy number 7 and marked SEGRETO. A rare find.
Price: $500.00
WW 796
Soviet propaganda leaflet dropped from the air over German lines. It is titled “What is happening in Germany”. It shows how bad the war is going for Germany and how the fatherland is in ruins. Rare in this condition.
Price: $200.00
WW 795
9 French WW1 satirical postcard.
Price: $450.00
WW 794
Nuit et Brouillard (Night and Fog). A narrative of life in a French POW camp in Germany. A numbered copy. No American library holds this.
Price: $120.00
WW 793
Set of 5 postcards issued during the German occupation of Belgium. Published under au profit des oeuvres belges, in English, dutch and French. Very dark. Rare.
Price: $400.00
WW 792
Deutsches leben so wohnt der deutsche mensch (German life this is how the German person lives). No date but likely 1936-1939. No American library holds this.
Price: $140.00
WW 791
Complete issue #1 of Stalag VIIA. Dated December, 1945. Complete with all 8 pages, this publication was for the survivors of Stalag VIIA in Germany. I believe there were no more issues after #1.
Price: $200.00
WW 790
3 boxes Manufacture Francaise de Surprises enfantines – “French production of surprises for children”. These were produce in the city of Nieppe, France. On the front of each box is a caricature mocking Hitler. The boxes themselves contained chocolate cigarettes for children and came with cardboard cutouts of military figures wearing uniforms of the French army in WW2. The charming figures were intended to be cut out by the children along the lines, after cutting them out the children were asked to send them to the publishing house and receive a surprise in return. Extremely rare.
Price: $400.00
WW 789
Complete set of 9 sketches of the German POW camp Stalag 325 at Rawa-Ruska in Western Ukraine. By E. Vanderheyde and dedicated to Free-French General Giraud. There is a dedication page with signature dated 1947.
Price: $900.00
Note from Wikipedia: The Germans operated the Stalag 325 prisoner-of-war camp for French and Belgian POWs in the town, following its relocation from Zamość and before its further relocation to Lwów. There were poor conditions in the camp with POWs being subjected to harassment and beatings by the German guards and suffering from hunger and epidemics, resulting in a high death rate. Many POWs were sent to forced labour subcamps in the region, and the local populace shared food with the prisoners despite the danger. There were two POW camps established in the citadel of Lviv between 3 December 1942 and January 1944 (Stalag-328 & Stalag-325). Approximately 284,000 persons went through these camps during its existence. 142,000 of them died here due to sickness, hunger or executions.
WW 788
German WW2 booklet satirizing Winston Churchill. Written by Hermann Trefez, this particular copy bears the stamp of the local mayors office with the message “The home community sends its warmest Easter greetings”. 61 pages.
Price: $400.00
WW 787
French WW2 booklet titled “Which one do you choose?” It shows a picture of Jean Jaures and Ilya Ehrenburg. One is a jew, the other a socialist. It goes on to talk about the dangers of both and states that the only way to defeat the jews and communists is to win the war. 14 pages.
Price: $450.00
WW 786
French WW2 broadside titled “Ronard 1560”. It cites anti-semitic poetry by the famed poet and asks the question….”In 1560, was Ronard an agent of Hitler?”.
Price: $190.00
Note: Pierre de Ronsard (1524 – 1585) was a French poet or, as his own generation in France called him, a "prince of poets".
WW 785
French WW2 broadside titled “Alert! Here they are...The Jews….” With a cover photo of Jewish-Soviet writer Ilya Ehrenburg. It cites arrests and executions of jewish terrorist in Paris and Lyon.
Price: $350.00
WW 784
French WW2 broadside titled “Jewish Terrorism”.
Price: $300.00
WW 783
French WW2 booklet titled “Sabotage the House!” Heavily anti-semitic. It shows how a French farmer, by not helping the Germans and supporting the Allies, lost his farm and becomes a slave to the jews.
Price: $490.00
WW 782
French WW2 booklet titled “You who have thought about tomorrow. You who have saved. Savers! Potential holders of French and foreign values that have been robbed...ruined, perhaps...Read our indictment, you will know those responsible!....” It blames the jews and cites specific public companies ruined by the jews. Issus by the Institut D’etude des Questions Juivs.
Price: $600.00
WW 781
French WW2 broadside showing a village in flames, with the caption “There is communism”. It appeals to the French people support the Germans, citing a case in Bergerac where 180 local people were rounded up by the Resistance and were digging their own graves when the were liberated by the Wehrmact at the last minute. It is compared to the massacre at Katyn.
Price: $180.00
WW 780
French WW2 booklet titled “The Canker... that is eating away at France”. Institute of Jewish Questions. Heavily anti-semitic.
Price: $450.00