Two Photo Albums Estate Paul Zink RAD & Kriegsmarine 1937-1945
Extensive military estate of the soldier Paul Zink from Meuselwitz, consisting of two fully filled photo albums (approx. 46 pages in total) as well as accompanying documents documenting his service history. 1) The first album "Memories of my Service Time" covers the peacetime years 1937-1939 with the Naval Artillery. It stands out due to its elaborate design with hand-painted chalk drawings (flags, coats of arms, U-boats) on almost every page. Shown are the training in Sassnitz (Rügen) and Swinemünde, cutter rowing, gun drills on coastal batteries, as well as well-known ships such as the cruiser "Karlsruhe", the target ship "Zähringen", and the "Gorch Fock". A special feature is the page on the Winter Relief Organization with the theme "Against the Askaris". 2) The second album documents the time in the Reich Labour Service (RAD) and the war deployment in the West. It begins with the RAD in Oberthau (heavy earthworks, "loading shaft") and then details the path of "Battery Capella" (Naval Artillery Swinemünde) in the Western Campaign of 1940. Stations include Holland (Vlissingen), Belgium, and France. Historically particularly valuable are the photos of the destruction and captured English tanks on the beach of Dunkirk as well as rare pictures of the construction of the Atlantic Wall in Lorient (U-boat bunker, arsenal). Included are various documents such as the discharge certificate from French captivity (1948), maps, and Dutch paper money. Condition commensurate with age with significant signs of wear, the covers are partly damaged, bumped, and loose at the spine, but the inside pages and photos are well preserved. Album format: landscape format (approx. 23 sheets per album), approx. 32x23 cm (LxH).
Please inspect. This estate is a cohesive historical document of a single person (Paul Zink, born 1918). The combination of the artistically designed peacetime album and the technical-documentary war album is particularly appealing to collectors. Above all, the photos from Dunkirk (abandoned British heavy equipment) and Lorient (U-boat infrastructure) have a high military-historical source value.
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