► Photothread: Graffiti on vehicles of the Wehrmacht

[SIS 5]

Hi all,

maybe it is interesting to post a new topic about Graffiti on vehicles of the Wehrmacht. I will try to post one pic a week.
Here the first: "Parole Heimat" (password home) on the roof of the cabin, "Gehste weg!" (Go away!) on the bumper.

Regards

Bert

[SIS 5]

Hi,

here the next pic: "Wir war´n im Westen, doch in der Heimat ist´s am besten" (We were in the west, but in the homeland it´s the best).

Regards

Bert

[SIS 5]

Here another one, dedicated to a girl with the name "Anita".

Regards

Bert

[SIS 5]

Here the next pic: "Wir grüßen die Heimat" (we salute the home-land). (source of the pic: an expired ebay auction).

Regards

Bert

[SIS 5]

Here another one with only two words: "Erbsen Speck" (peas bacon).
Maybe the advice, that in the truck was a field kitchen. Source of the pic: an expired ebay auction).

Regards

Bert

[peeved]

Booty banter corrected by the victors; From exp. eBay.de auction N:o 110910560001.

Markus

[SIS 5]

Hi Markus,

thanks for posting this very interesting pic.
Here the solution from my last pic with "Erbsen Speck".

Best regards

Bert

[SIS 5]

Hi,

here another graffiti on a German bus:
Helga ( a German first name for a girl).
Expreß Paris - Athen (express train Paris - Athens)
Parole Heimat (password home).
Source of the pic: an expired ebay auction).

´Regards

Bert

[SIS 5]

Hi,

here another graffiti on a bus:

50 Pfennige für die 1. Laus,
gibt unser Stabsarzt immer noch aus!

50 pennies (Pfennig is the old German currency) for the first louse
our staff physician is still giving You!

Regards

Bert

[SIS 5]

Hi,

here the next graffiti about the end of the war in France:
"Der Krieg mit Frankreicxh ist aus. 25.06.40 18 Uhr"
"The war with France is over. 25.06.40 18 o´clock"

Regards

Bert

[uncle]

Thank you Bert.
Very interesting!

[SIS 5]

Hi,

here another graffiti on a Hanomag tractor:
on the left side of the cabin: Luise - ich komme! (Luise - I´m coming!); Wien - Krakau - [u]Paris[/u] - [u]London[/u]! (Vienna - Cracow - [u]Paris[/u] - [u]London[/u]).
The text on the left side of the box I cannot decipher.
The text on the back of the box: Annahmestelle für Kriegserklärungen! (collecting point for declarations of war).

Regards

Bert

[SIS 5]

Hi,

here two pics with anti-British graffiti (source of the pic: expired ebay auction):
First pic:
"Wenn die 3. Staffel wird fliegen, ("When the third squadron will fly,
vergeht Herrn [u]Churchill[/u] das Lügen." ([u]Churchill[/u] doesn´t enjoy lying.")
Second pic:
"Wenn die Fliegerbombe kracht, ("When the aircraft bomb is crashing,
hat auch England ausgelacht!!" (also England will never laugh")

Regards

Bert

[SIS 5]

Hi,

here another form of graffiti: the names of all villages and towns, where this unit made a stop in the campaign in France:
the beginning in Bollendorf, a village in Germany on the border to Luxembourg; Florenville, a vilage in the south-east of Belgium; Mouzon, a village near to the border to Belgium, on the river Maas (in French Meuse) south-east from Sedan; Sedan, a town on the River Maas, where the German advance was stopped; Amiens, a town in the north of France, 140 km north of Paris, on the river Somme; Laon, a town also in the north of France, 140 km north-east of Paris, on the channel Oise-Aisne; Soissons, a town east of Compiègne, south-east of Paris; Mèzy, a small village on the river Marne, east of Chateau-Thierry; Nogent, a village on the river Seine, soth-east of Paris; Gien, a town on the river Loire, 150 km south of Paris; Bourges, a town in the centre of France, 250 km south of Paris.

Regards

Bert

[SIS 5]

Hi,

here another graffiti. This time not on a truck, but on a field kitchen:
"Zum Bayern Stüberl - Berlin" ("To the Bavaria pub - Berlin"). "Stüberl" is a Bavarian word for a (small) room or a pub.On the right You see a beer mug.

Regards

Bert