215 Konvolut von 9 Fotoalben aus dem Nachlaß des Generalmajors und Afrika - Kämpfers Otto Deindl, bayrischer Flugzeugführer im 1. Weltkrieg.
Collection of 9 photo albums and a number of individual photos, mainly from Major General Deindl's time with the Bavarian Air Force during World War I. Also includes some photos from the 1930s and from the African theater of war.
In detail:
Album with 13 photos from the period 1911/12. Includes photos of training, the Munich War School, and the Lechfeld shooting course, among others.
Album with 102 photos from 1914 onwards. Includes photos of various aircraft types and crews, among others.
Album with 124 photos from around 1914/15. Includes photos of Saarburg and the surrounding area, positions of the B.A.K., flight over the Lorraine Canal, combat flights near Belfort, aerial photos, A.E.G. biplanes, artillery guns, Colmar artillery barracks, and the return of the 8th Bavarian Reserve Division from Russia, photos of aircraft in the Vosges, Mazeville airfield, various types of aircraft, etc. Reserve Division from Russia, aerial photographs of the Vosges, Mazeville airfield, various aircraft types, etc.
Album with 146 photos from around 1916. Includes photographs of the transfer of K.G.2 to Metz with aerial photographs, downed French aircraft (Voisin), officers of 8b from Colmar, aerial photos of the area around Verdun, photos of Bölke, mobile artillery, downed German aircraft, destroyed ammunition magazine, aerial photos of Verdun, vacation photos at Lake Starnberg, etc.
Album with 57 photos from around 1915/17. Includes photos of training at the Bavarian flying school 4/Neustadt, air combat exercises, plane crash, various types of aircraft, aerial photos, etc.
Album with 93 photos from 1917. Includes photos of officers, some with signatures, missions in Flanders and Ypres, crashed French and English aircraft, railway transports, etc.
Album with 150 photos from 1914/15. Includes photos of the Feldfliegerabt, 6b in Saarburg-Bühl, Christmas celebration in the field in 1914, emergency landings and crashes, squadron visit by His Excellency v, Falkenhausen, aerial photographs, aerial photographs of the St. Etienne fortification group and Fort Manonviller, destroyed buildings and churches in Lorraine, infirmary with nurses, soldiers' graves and mass grave in Brudersdorf, aerial photographs of Saarburg and Strasbourg, 3 postcards of Hindenburg in Munich in 1922, etc.
Album with 64 photos. Includes photos of emergency-landed and shot-down aircraft, coffin of a fallen officer accompanied by soldiers, etc.
Album with 113 photos. Includes photos of Panzer-Abw.Abt.27 with pictures of Augsburg, training at PAK, officers and soldiers on duty, parade, training, hunting and leisure time; Bitch military training area.
Small album with 33 photos. Includes pictures of family visits, horse riding, etc.
Small album with 43 photos and loose photos. North Africa 1941/42 with Mussolini visiting troops and Italian officers, Deindl in tropical uniform and Deindl in uniform with medals, etc.
4 books and brochures.
SCAPA FLOW—The Grave of the German Fleet, by Vice Admiral Ludwig von Reuter. Leipzig 1921. Half-linen with dust jacket, 153 pages and several photo plates, owner's note by Reuter on the cover.
Kampfgruppe Scherer-105 Tage eingeschlossen (Combat Group Scherer—105 Days Enclosed), by war correspondent Muck. Oldenburg 1943, cardboard cover with 154 pictures. On the cover page, photo of General Scherer, defender of Cholm, with handwritten dedication from Major General Scherer to Major General Deindl, dated November 15, 1944. The spine of the book is defective.
Clausewitz Catechism, by General d. Art. von Metzsch, Oldenburg 1943. Paper cover with 48 pages.
Map of Southeast Europe Look over the southeast. Tornister sheet of the High Command of the Wehrmacht, 1941. Large-format, color map, folded several times.
Well over 800 original photos in total, including rare aerial photos, personalities such as Oswald Boelcke, Mussolini, etc.
Highly interesting and extensive original material of great rarity.
A viewing is highly recommended.