Seeking photo information

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Seeking photo information

Post by Devilishblue02 » 16 Jan 2022 20:13

Hello,

I am trying to research photos that my grandfather brought back to the US after his service in WW2. He found them in a bombed out hotel and my family is trying to find out details about the photographer, purpose of photos, locations, people, events, etc. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. I am attaching a few of the 103 photos we have.
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Post by Devilishblue02 » 16 Jan 2022 21:31

Here are some additional photos from same collection.
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Post by GregSingh » 17 Jan 2022 00:35

Photos seem to be taken by Luftwaffen-Propagandakompanie 1 during Polish Campaign 1939.
Perhaps they can be found as well in this collection at Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/item/2005677062/

Anti-Jewish text to two photos was prepared by Josef Grabler (Reich Ministry of Aviation employee) who was assigned to a Luftwaffe propaganda company as a war correspondent.
One photo allegedly shows fleeing Jewish family, second photo is not attached ?

Photo of a damaged bridge is of Vistula river bridge in Grudziądz.
http://www.kaczorek.easyisp.pl/pisz/fort/grudz002.htm

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Post by Linkagain » 17 Jan 2022 14:54

The Second picture Luftwaffe OFFice in Center has a World War I pilot/Observer badge
HAve posted link to website http://www.theaerodrome.com/forum/showt ... post760448
Identied ?

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Post by Waleed Y. Majeed » 17 Jan 2022 18:25

The standind officers look like a Generalleutnant with his adjutant (cord, oberstleutnant) and a second oberstleutnant who appears to be wearing a WW1 cross.
Besides the WW1 observers badge the adjutant also seems to have a WW2 observers badge. The two others wear what looks like pilot badges. The oberstleutnant also wears a wound badge (WW1/2 ?). The generalleutnant might have a WW1 badge beside the pilot badge (if it is a crown on top) but I‘m not sure.

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Post by Devilishblue02 » 11 Feb 2022 03:47

Any ideas of the name of this camp? Photo taken in September 1939 in Poland. City unknown. Any info would be helpful. Thanks.
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Post by LAstry2 » 22 May 2022 22:33

The man on the right in first picture cetainly has a non regualation hat..can anyone recognize it? :milwink: :thumbsup:

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Post by Ponury » 14 Jun 2022 21:33

It looks like an internment camp, perhaps for Polish citizens. There was a camp, then a concentration camp. His name was Stuthoff near Gdańsk (Free City of Danzig) in Pomerania ... Poles built it in 1939 on the orders of the Germans. This kitchen is strange. On the locomobiles? Maybe it is a other camp in the Third Reich, to which some Poles were closed?

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