► Photothread: Graffiti on vehicles of the Wehrmacht

[SIS 5]

Hi Slava,

thank You for posting this interesting graffiti. Excuse me, please, for the delay. Here is the translation:
"Willst du ´nen richtigen Juden seh´n," - "If You want to see a real jew,"
"mußt du nach Ost-Galizien geh´n!" - "You must go to East-Galicia!"
"Den Osten haben wir befreit," - "We liberated the East,"
"für´n Westen stehen wir bereit." - "we are ready for the West."

Best regards

Bert

[SIS 5]

Hi,

today only a very small graffiti on a captured British truck:
"Sepp" - a popular form of the first name Josef. Maybe it is the first name of the driver, because he has a typical Bavarian hat on his head, a so-called "Sepplhut".

Regards

Bert

[SIS 5]

Hi,

here another graffiti (source of the pic: ebay):
"Schnellverkehr Frankfurt - Warschau" - "Rapid transit Frankfurt - Warsaw"

[SIS 5]

Hi,

here another graffiti:
"Gruß aus Wien" - "Greeting from Vienna"
"Achse Wien -Hannover" - "Axis Vienna - Hannover"
"Ein Reich - ein Volk - ein Führer" - "One nation - one empire - one leader"

Regards

Bert

[SIS 5]

Hi,

here the next graffiti with the stops during the Western campaign in France.

Regards

Bert

[SIS 5]

Hi,

here another graffiti, this time on a railway wagon after the campaign in Polnad I think:
"Mutti, wir kommen!" - "Mom, we are coming!"
"Hinaus!" - "Get out!"

Regards

Bert

[SIS 5]

Hi,

here a new graffiti.
"Grüaß di nacha!" (in Bavarian dialect) - "Good day then!"
"Pusinko" (a Czech word) - "Sweatheart"
"Von Warschau nach ..." (München) - "From Warsaw to ..." (Munich)
The drawing at the end is the Church of Our Blessed Lady in Munich, also called "Frauenkirche".

Regards

Bert

[ilfil]

I bet the cook of this unit in the civilian life was "Reichsbahn-angehörige".



IMHO both vehicles are captured, the kitchen carrier is most probably CMP cab 11 parked behind a Machinery Lorry (workshop truck) on Leyland Retriever chassis. Africa maybe?

[SIS 5]

Hi ilfile,

thank You very much for posting this interesting pic. Btw: Mitropa is the abbreviation of "Mitteleuropäische Schlaf- und Speisewagen Aktiengesellschaft" - "Central European sleeping car and restaurant car stock corporation". And You are right, the pic was taken in North Africa.
Here another graffiti with "Mitropa" and the slogan:
"Mutti, Mutti, sei auf Draht!" - "Mom, mom, be careful!"
"Wir brauchen bald ein frisches Bad." - "We need a fresh bath."

Best regards

Bert

[Maxschnauzer]

A little graffiti on a big lorry:

[SIS 5]

Hi Max,

thank You very much for this pic. Interesting the text: "Greeting from the desert". But I cannot recognize any desert on this pic and I don´t think that this truck was used in the North African desert.

Best regards

Bert

[peeved]

Maybe "Gruss aus der Wüste" is a wordplay with "Gruss aus dem Westen" given all the vaguely Frenchie (or maybe Polish) memorabilia in the photo.

Markus

[SIS 5]

Hi Markus,

thanks for the reply. I don´t think, that it is a wordplay. But I agree with You, that it could be an allusion to France or Poland, maybe to the deserted areas of Poland.

Best regards

Bert

[Maxschnauzer]

Thanks Bert and Markus for your help interpreting that cryptic message.

[SIS 5]

Hi,

here another graffiti according to the campaign in Poland:
"Polnische Kavallerie ist durchgebrochen" -
That´s a pun with the German word "durchgebrochen":
"Polish cavalry broke through" or "Polish cavalry is broken".

Regards

Bert