The photo album of Wehrmacht NCO Nemela in 9. Machine-Gewehr Bataillon (mot). Album starts from service time in RAD in 1938 and goes to the war’s end in 1945. There are photos of front-line service in Poland, France and Russia: German, French, Soviet tanks and vehicles, machine guns, prisoners of war, destructions, combat action. Private photos Hitler’s meeting with Mussolini and Antonesku in the Soviet Union (photos taken during service time in a security battalion in Army Group South.) Absolutely unique photos of award ceremony Battle of Stalingrad survivors and photos of another one award ceremony with Reichsjugendführer Artur Axmann bestowing Hemela as a former Hitlerjugen volunteer. Many photos have very detailed description from the owner.
Caption: Line up. Wash at 6 o’clock. Coffee. Morning exercises. Breakfast. Go out. Move for a work. March. Uniforms inspection. Spades inspection. Bad food. 25 pfennigs per day.
