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memorial
photo book.
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USM book #349 |
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This is a nice original 1940 example of the rare SS photographic combat book DAMALS. It is in nice used condition and it is a hard cover edition. Please note this is an original Third Reich photo book, NOT a modern reprint!
DAMALS (Back Then) is a 8-1/4 x 11-1/8 inch, 120 page very, very heavily illustrated hardcover 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. It is superb SS photographic material of the very finest kind.
DAMALS |
A RARE ORIGINAL |
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 induced the glorious French Armed Forces to en masse surrender in just 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, weapons, vehicles and equipment, 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.
An extremely rare 80+ year old SS photo book, complete and in very nice used condition, with tape on the bottom half of the spine. No odor.
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 fieldgear of the Waffen-SS.
SS-TOTENKOPF CONQUEST OF FRANCE UNIT PHOTO HISTORY BOOK
PAPA EICKE >>> NOT A MODERN REPRINT <<<
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