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Published: 2015-07-07 20:56:52 +0000 UTC; Views: 1379; Favourites: 16; Downloads: 0
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Description A German Panzerspähwagen Sd.Kfz. 231 (6-Rad) (armoured reconnaissance vehicle)

This Photo was taken by my Grandpa early in war (around 1939 / 1940)
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Comments: 9

k-dsan [2015-08-06 03:31:31 +0000 UTC]

how did he take it? on bike?

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Fuchs86 In reply to k-dsan [2015-08-22 20:45:48 +0000 UTC]

No he stand on the street as those armoured cars passing by

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k-dsan In reply to Fuchs86 [2015-08-25 22:38:26 +0000 UTC]

was your grand a journalist or something?
or every soldier had their own camera.

ya need digitize all of those photos dude.
where did he fight, east front?

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Fuchs86 In reply to k-dsan [2015-08-26 17:26:08 +0000 UTC]

No not every soldier had an own camera. He buyed his own. He Starts 1940 in belgium, then france, and then till end of the war on the eastern front. 

He was an high decorated infantry Feldwebel. 

If i have the time i can Put a few from his pics online 

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k-dsan In reply to Fuchs86 [2015-08-26 18:17:08 +0000 UTC]

till end of the war on the eastern front

dang, he tasted gulag. that must be hard time.

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Fuchs86 In reply to k-dsan [2015-08-26 20:05:21 +0000 UTC]

he was on the eastern front since the beginning of the invasion of russia in 1941.

On May 1. 1945 he become prisoner of war south of Berlin in the Halbe Pocket - in December 1951 he was released from russian pow camps.

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k-dsan In reply to Fuchs86 [2015-08-27 22:59:12 +0000 UTC]

so, he is the lucky one. he didnt taste gulag camp.

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Fuchs86 In reply to k-dsan [2015-09-02 18:55:37 +0000 UTC]

Trust me - for the inmates there werent a big difference

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Dregamar [2015-07-07 22:05:33 +0000 UTC]

nice

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