DAMALS SS-Totenkopf Division in France 1940

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SS-TOTENKOPF EICKE PHOTO BOOK

AN EXCELLENT EXAMPLE OF THE
VERY RARE PHOTO HISTORY OF
THE SS-TOTENKOPF DIVISION
IN THE FIELD IN FRANCE IN 1940
AUTOGRAPHED BY A
SS-STANDARTENFÜHRER
DAMALS

This is as nice an example of the rare SS photographic combat book Damals as we have ever seen. It is fresh, clean and in excellent condition and it even comes with its original dust jacket. The dust jacket is a little beat-up and scotch taped, but the only scotch tape on the book itself is along the spine.

The book bears a dedication and signature from a SS-Standartenführer on the front fly-leaf along with the impression of the stamp of the Erganzungsamt der Waffen-SS • Erg.-Stelle Spree (III) • [the Waffen-SS Replacement Office] in Berlin, where he worked in 1943. We have not identified the SS-Standartenführer who signed the book but doing so should be a relatively easy matter.

,,DAMALS’’ (Back Then) is a 8-1/4 x 11-1/8 inch, 120 page very, very heavily illustrated hard cover remembrance book of “the Great Days of the SS-Totenkopf Division Battling through France in 1940” by SS War Correspondents Ege, Bauer and Bonda as printed by Christian Belser in Stuttgart for the SS Führungshauptamt in Berlin in 1941. It is superb SS photographic material of the very finest kind.

Together with a very brief one-page introduction and excellent photo captions, the photos in this book tell the story of the short but tough campaign which reduced the glorious French Armed Forces to en masse surrender in a few days time.

Very sharp mostly full-page photographs show SS General “Papa” Eicke, columns of SS vehicles, SS troops and officers deploying to the field, marching through French towns, chatting with German Panzer troops, resting en route, directing traffic, shelling French positions, firing machine guns, crossing streams in rubber boats, firing mortars, looking at dead British troops, erecting communications systems, etc. Other photos show SS-Totenkopf Division wounded, graves of the dead, building bridges, cooks preparing meals for the troops, knocked-out French tanks, armored assaults, surrendering French and British troops, a ceremony awarding medals to the victorious SS troops, etc.

DAMALS is a book that belongs in the library of every historian of the period as well as those who collect the helmets, uniforms, weapons and fieldfear of the Waffen-SS.

An extremely rare autographed book
in very fine condition.

This autographed SS-Totenkopf Division book is offered for sale for
$975.00 delivered to any address in the United States of America.

SS-TOTENKOPF TRENCH ART ,,PARADIS’’ LETTER OPENER

This is an old 7-1/4 inch long trench art letter opener made during the war as a souvenir of service. It was hand crafted from the copper rotating band of a small artillery shell. The blade is sharpened around the point and is stamped on the left hand side 4/Kp.1Btl. 2-SS [runes] JR TOTENKOPF ,,PARADIS’’.

This piece of SS-Totenkopf Division trench art is
**SOLD**.

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