WW2 Third Reich Waffen SS Flemish Volunteers Group to SS Unt...

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£6,500

WW2 Third Reich Waffen SS Flemish Volunteers Group to SS Untersturmfuhrer Albert Geunes: a very comprehensive group of his awards, official documents and photographs. This is new to the market and has not been in a collection before to include: Eiserne Kreuz 2. Klasse, Iron Cross 2nd class 1939, no makers mark to ring, complete with original full-length ribbon: Award document for the EK2 to SS Sturmann Albert Geunes 3. /Kradschutzen-Btl.2 SS-PzGren. Div."Das Reich", dated 18.2.1943 and signed in ink by the divisional commander SS Gruppenfuhrer und Generalieutnant der Waffen SS Georg Keppler: Award document to SS Sturmann Albert Geunes 3. /SS Kradschutzen-Bt.2 dated 3 Marz 1943 for the Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz signed in ink by SS Sturmbannfuhrer und Btl. Kommandeur Jakob Fick (Fick was awarded the RK on the same day for the same action): Silver Wound badge 1939, zinc, maker marked L22, pin and hinge with old repair: Award document Medaille "Winterschlacht im Osten 1941/42" (Ostmedaille) to SS-Unterscharfuhrer Albert Geunes dated 22 Juni 1942 signed by SS Sturmbannfuhrer und Kommandeur Konrad Schellong, 6.SS-Freiwilligen Sturmbrigade “Langemarck”: Medaille "Winterschlacht im Osten 1941/42" (Ostmedaille) ring maker marked "14" complete with full length ribbon: Infanterie Sturmabzeichen in Silber - Infantry Assault Badge in Silver, zink, no makers mark: Promotion document dated 21 Dec. 1944 on Himmler’s personal headed paper with impressed seal and ink stamp promoting him to SS-Untersturmfuhrer and signed in ink by SS Brigadefuhrer und Genralmajor der Waffen SS Dr. Adolf Katz: Fursorgeauweis der Waffen SS in Flandern Nr.82 with ink stamp and signed: Medal of the Recruiting Centers 1940 ( Medaille van de Recruteringscentra van het Belgisch Leger 1940) awarded in 1990 by the Belgian Govt to men who presented themselves for service in France in 1940, cased and complete with ribbon and pin: approx. 30 wartime photos of himself in uniform: As he was an active member of the Sint Maartensfonds Flemish Waffen SS Veterans Association there are also approx. 40 post war reprinted photos of both himself and his comrades: 8 large post war reprinted photos of himself taking part in the honour guard at SS-Junkerschule Bad Tölz in 1944 for the memorial service for SS Brigadefuhrer Fritz Witt, shows Witt’s widow and children, Fritz Klingenberg, LSSAH colour party, SS Obersturmbannfuhrer Richard Schulze-Kossens etc: Four post war signed postcards/photos of Remy Schrynen, Richard Schulze-Kossens, Jan Vincx, etc: 10 colour photos taken in 1988 of the Memorial to Flemish SS killed in 1945 Nordwestuckermark-Sternhagen, Uckermark district, Brandenburg : Wartime newspaper cutting of Jef van de Wiele: His Daughters Birth Certificate born in Germany 25th Sept 1944: photocopy of letter to his Adj. Obersturmfuhrer Buch sent from Graz 6/3/44: Letter sent as a PoW to his family 30/6/46: Copy from the Bundesarchive sent to him by Jan Vincx of him listed in the 14 Kreigs-Juncker- Lehrgang an der Junkerschule Tolz: 1941 Regt Westland document giving him permission to marry signed by unit Kommandeur SS-Stubaf. Horst Strathmann: 5 wartime photos of his wife and Flemish HJ members: 3 documents from his Military Tribunal in 1946/47: release papers with photo after he was released from prison in 1958: After released he became a Miner, Belgian Trade Union /Algemeen Christelijk Vakverbond Bronze Medal" ACV Hulde: En Erkentelijkheid": Belgian Trade Union /Algemeen Christelijk Vakverbond Silver Medal" ACV Hulde En Erkentelijkheid": Medallion from a Miners Jubileumfeest Dinner and menu from 1982: Miners ID card with photo: St Maartensfonds Membership Card with stamps from 1975-1977: Sint Maartensfonds Commemorative Medal 1951-1996: ribbon pins stamps 1980’s/1990’s from re-reunions: lapel badge “JST” (Junkerschule Tolz): Medallion “Tychsen Kameradschaft, 2nd SS Panzerdivision Das Reich”: Official copy of trial Pro Justitia: Handmade 1997 New Year card from another Veteran with collar tab illustration to front: post war family photos of his daughter and her husband, inc his military service in the Belgian Army, etc, etc. Post war photos of the graves of SS General Paul Hausser and of Hitler's parents.
Albert Ludovicus Geunes. 23-01-1921 to 26-11-2006. His wife, Leni Karlicsek, 23-12-1921 to 19-11-2003. His daughter, Erika, 20/9/44 to 11/4/2020. Plus a bronzed child's boot, 1970's in date. All contained in an old buscuit tin.

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The three award documents are in very good condition. The promotion document has splits to the paper where folded. All the awards are in good uncleaned condition. The large coloured portrait photo has splits where once folded. The photos are all in good condition.