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Have a look at our genuine Nazi grave marker for
Italian sailor
Anatol Masser who died in 1943, also for sale on USMBOOKS.com.
This is very rare World War II Wehrmacht material that must be explained to have it make sense to most people today. It is a photographic porcelain memorial grave markers showing the dead soldier and explaining his death in Russia.
This heavy handmade oval porcelain plaque was once attached to a grave marker on the grave of Stabsgefreiter Anton Riegler, the 29 year old son of an innkeeper in Pierbach, Germany (just north-east of Mauthausen Concentration Camp) who was killed on 15 October 1944 at Saporoschje, Russia (south of Kharkov in the Ukraine). These kind of plaques were commonly attached to wooden, iron and stone grave markers in Germany. They were very common for fallen soldiers during World War II.
This heavy handmade oval porcelain plaque was once attached to a grave marker on the grave of Stabsgefreiter Anton Riegler, the 29 year old son of an innkeeper in Pierbach, Germany (just north-east of Mauthausen Concentration Camp) who was killed on 15 October 1944 at Saporoschje, Russia (south of Kharkov in the Ukraine). These kind of plaques were commonly attached to wooden, iron and stone grave markers in Germany. They were very common for fallen soldiers during World War II.
The reason there are so few in cemeteries today is that in Germany, as in the rest of Europe, people remain buried in their cemetery plot as long as their family continues to pay the rent for that plot to the people that operate the cemetery (usually a church). If no one pays the rent, the remains and the headstone are removed from the cemetery. It is likely that when the Riegler family stopped paying rent for their family member's plot, this porcelain memorial plaque was returned to them as a memento.
It is also possible that Anton Riegler was buried in Russia and that this porcelain plaque was attached to a memorial wall in a cemetery or church in his home town for a time. See example of different fallen German soldiers below.
It is also possible that Anton Riegler was buried in Russia and that this porcelain plaque was attached to a memorial wall in a cemetery or church in his home town for a time. See example of different fallen German soldiers below.
As World War II went from a current event to a historical event in Germany, items like this were often returned to the family. This is a genuine porcelain memorial plaque from an authentic German Wehrmacht soldier who fell in Russia 66 years ago. It is not something made in the last 25 years to be sold to collectors. We purchased it at an antique exhibition in Austria. Very rare and very good condition.
NAZI WEHRMACHT GRAVE MARKER
A RARE GRAVE MARKER
MEMORIAL PLAQUE FOR
A GERMAN WEHRMACHT
SOLDIER KILLED
IN RUSSIA IN 1944
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