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Original WWII German Kriegsmarine death card Bergen op Zoom

€50.00
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Conflict World War Ii Nation Germany
Item Type Postcards Source Site OORLOGSSPULLEN
Product ID 497994 Currency EUR

Ships from: Netherlands

This German death card commemorates Wilhelm Hartmann, a sailor of the Kriegsmarine, who was killed on January 30, 1945, during an Allied air raid on the base near Bergen op Zoom.The death card mentions his birth on February 9, 1911, in Rondorf, his marriage to CΓ€cilia Mai in 1934, and his military career, from the infantry to the navy, where he served along the Dutch coast.The front features a portrait of Hartmann in uniform with the text 'Gebetsandenken a den gefallenen Krieger' ('Prayer remembrance for the fallen soldier').He is now buried at the German War Cemetery in Ysselsteyn and can be found on the German war graves website Volksbund.de.Article number: 16840

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