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German WWII 2 (Two) Volume Photo Album Lot

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German WWII 2 (Two) Volume Photo Album Lot-This is a very interesting lot. These photos were owned by a German Frigate Captain named Carl E. Munzenmeir. He was born in Germany but moved to Springfield Massachusetts in 1983. He passed away in 1992, in the US. There are a total of 215 photos in this lot. The blue volume contains approx. 121 post war family photos along with wartime candid shots. The pages are numbered, so pages 1-12 contains many family shots. Pages 13-24 have some cool wartime photos. Some WW1 included. There are a six candid shots of Rommel. Rommel met Munzenmeir during a 1943 Holland visit. Rommel was in Holland between January 3rd, through March 6th of 1943, and inspected the coastal defense forces. Here Munzenmeier was the Frigate Captain and met Rommel when he was inspecting artillery. There are also six photos of Generalfeldmarschall von Rundstedt.  This book also has 14 loose photos in a Ziploc. These are a mix of family and a few military. The second volume contains approx. 94 photographs. These are much earlier photos, from the 1930’s. One set of photos is very cool, as is shows the DornierX in Frankfurt. This was the largest and heaviest flying boat in the world when it appeared in 1929. There is a summer photo from 1934 which shows Munzenmeir with his coastal artillery uniform. Note the small visor cap eagle, and no eagle on tunic. There is a cool photo of his daughter in the BDM in 1939. There is a nice photo from 1941 when he won his EKII. These albums are a lot of fun to look through. They are both in very good condition.  One album is a blue binder with numbered pages. The photos are held in the cellophane pages that were popular in the 1980’s. The front of this album has a newspaper clipping from 1992 with the death notice for Carl Munzenmeier. The second album is smaller and contains the earlier photos from the 1930’s. It has a textured light brown softcover that is in very good shape. The small black and white pages are pasted into black photo paper, with each page being separated by tissue paper. There are 8 blank pages in this book. It is bound and held together with a cord. Overall, very good condition.