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It is rare to find an album of any consequence dealing with Third Reich German military horses and the “German cowboys” that cared for them. This album is unique in that the man who assembled it clearly loved horses and photographed them in service in the German Wehrmacht horse artillery in all kinds of circumstances.
The album contains about 85 original Third Reich photos (virtually all of them service related), about half of which have something directly to do with horses and the personnel and equipment that the horses were involved with. There are even two photos made by the album owner at Reichsparteitag 1936 in Nürnberg featuring Adolf Hitler!
There are eight images that have been removed from the album, most of them apparently were postcards. Only the mounting corners remain from those eight images.
A rare pair of photographs show the fake facade of the Nazi Kongresshalle on the Nazi Party Day Grounds as erected by the architect. This small section of facade was erected prior to beginning the construction of the building to make sure that the scale and other aspects of the structure would fit in properly in the landscape.
Many people will know more about the Nazi Horse Artillery than we do but there are pictures of the horses, the guns they pulled, their caissons, mounted troops eating, Nürnberg in 1936 during the Reichs Party Days, horses and equipment on floating bridges, on railway cars, on parade in cities, troops clowning in the barracks, field exercises, horses being groomed, fed and at rest, high ranking officers, artillery troops moving in a column and even a couple of pictures of a horse artilleryman kissing the muzzle of his horse.
These photos are mostly very sharp, very well exposed images shot with a high quality camera. Only one of the images, that of the new standards of the Armed Forces inside of a tent, is a commercially prepared postcard. The others are the best kind of soldier snapshots.
NAZI HORSE ARTILLERY PHOTO ALBUM
A SPLENDID THIRD REICH
PHOTO ALBUM OF A
HORSEMAN IN THE
WEHRMACHT ARTILLERY
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