World War 1 & 2

WW 571

What appears to be an advertisement for a German beverage is actually ephemera for Panther-Fibel (Panther Punch). Panther-Fibel was created as an engaging and easy-to-understand handbook for Panzer tank crews to break the tradition of heavy-going technical manuals. Such sophisticated machines required considerable knowledge to keep them in action, so commanders sought to snag the interest of young tank crews with light-hearted, well-illustrated handbooks. This is not a handbook but more like an advertisement, with messages of discipline. Translated, it reads as follows: you don't know everything - say it honestly, that's why the regulations are indispensable, but so that you don't get frightened, they are mixed as panther punch. Solid skills are a treasure, which is why it serves as sediment here. Colorful knowledge and humor on top. Then it seems half as difficult to you, mixed with a few flashes of inspiration and important flashes of thought and important memory clips. This is how panther punch is brewed and is easily digested by everyone. The play on words is obvious. Produced in Berlin in 1944. Rare. B

Price: $300.00

WW 570

Clandestine Italian broadside making fun of the fascist black shirts. moccolo moschetto cretino Perfetto (roughly translated……the weapon who lights candles is a perfect idiot). Stamped A Cura Delle Org. Antifascist. Very rare and quite illegal at the time. B

Price: $200.00

WW 569

Poster indicating the location of all branches of the Italian military as of June, 1928. Great detail. B

Price: $350.00

WW 568

Bugiardi D’Abitudine. Verita e Menzogne Della Stampa Anglo-Francese. (Habitual Liars. Truth and Lies of the Anglo-French Press.) Published in Rome, 1940. 32 pages. B

Price: $120.00

WW 567

Interesting WW1 postcard titled “The Sky as Seen from the Front”. B

Price: $50.00

WW 566

Four French and Dutch postcards from WW1, showing the enemy as a monster. B

Price: $160.00

WW 565

World War 1 German military humor card set of 8/10 postcard. Uses military terms in a sexual setting. B

Price: $180.00

WW 564

Three anti-Flemish racist broadsides from the movement to liberate Wallonia from Flanders, during WW2. One is titled Programme du Front Wallon pour la Liberation du Pays, another is titled Declaration Fondamentale Du Gouvement de la Wallonie Libre and lastly Peuple Gaulois de Wallonie. The documents refer to the Flemish as a “lower caste” and calls for the country (Walloonia) to make solidarity. B

Price: $400.00

WW 563

Six issues of Sambre et Meus, a political bulletin that ran from 1941 from the city of Namur. I have the first 6 issues from January-June, 1944. I am not sure it the publication ran before then as I have found no evidence as such. It was the organ of the Parti d’Unite Wallonne and was highly critical of Walloon politicians. B

Price: $400.00

WW 562WW 562

Archive of Italian partisan activities at the end of World War 2. Shows underground partisan newspapers “the Guerilla”, “The Fighter” and “The SAP Volonter”, “Justice and Liberty” partisan brigade card (unused), declaration of infiltration tasks of a partisan enrolled in the fascist brigades, permit pass of a partisan doctor, authorization of movement for service, withdrawal vouchers for shirts, questions regarding the interrogation of a fascist prisoner, order for requisition of wood, information about an RSI captain, order to hand in all weapons of the partisan Fachiro Brigade, receipt for documents related to fascist prisoners, address to an English prisoner aided by the partisans, minutes of the constitution of the partisan government at Breme (Pavia), request for information about three fascists, information about the political situation in the country, car circulation permit for a partisan, declarations of participation in a partisan action, order of the day for the National Liberation Committee, declaration of a fascist about his participation in the fascist youth, declaration of delivery of three weapons, declaration of detention of fascists in a prison camp, receipt for money received from a company commander, request for a pass, declaration of slaughter of 4 cows to feed the population and the partisans, guard duty list, list of personnel who received new uniform jackets, notification of a trial of a fascist, declaration of a witness about a capture of british prisoners, report of the denunciation of fascists, declaration about british prisoners, declaration of the inability to contribute to the costs of furnishing the Carabinieri station (as there was no government, the locals had to contribute money to restore order), declaration of withdrawal of 100 litres of naptha. 41 documents in total. A treasure trove of information about partisan activity in the war. B

Price: $3000.00

WW 561

1940 Annual yearbook of the MVSN (Blackshirts). B

Price: $290.00

WW 560

Complete Series 1 photo set of the Liberation of Paris. Arrival of the Allies in Paris. 10 photos. Issued at the end of the Occupation. Original cover included. B

Price: $250.00

WW 559

Sound recordings of the Battle of France. 4 albums, produced in July 1945. B

Price: $600.00

WW 558

La 1re Division Marocaine dans La Bataille de Gembloux. Signed by the commander of the Division, General Mllier. Also Heure par heure La Bataille de Gembloux par P. Soudan. B

Price: $500.00

Note from Wikipedia: The 1st Moroccan Division created on 27 October 1939, was an infantry division of the Army of Africa (French: Armée d'Afrique) which participated in the Battle of France (May–June 1940) during World War II. It participated with distinction in the Battle of Gembloux on 15 May 1940 and subsequently during the defense of Lille at the end of May 1940. The battle honour Gembloux 1940 was added to the regimental flags of the 1st Moroccan Tirailleurs Regiment, 2nd Moroccan Tirailleurs Regiment, 7th Moroccan Tirailleurs Regiment, 64th African Artillery Regiment. Following the war, the regiments of the 1st Moroccan Division received eight citations from the French Armed Forces and Belgium Armed Forces. All told, the Division lost 700 men during the war, 70% of which were indigenous North Africans. A road in Gembloux, Belgium bears the name of Rue de la Première Division Marocaine (Road of the 1st Moroccan Division).

WW 557

R5 au coeur de la France un champ de bataille secret ou tomberent dix mille allemands (R5 in the heart of France a secret battlefield where ten thousand Germans fell). Published in July, 1945, the inside cover reads: THIS BOOKLET IS SOLD FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE LIMOGES REGION RELIEF ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE (C.O.S.A.C.). B

Price: $350.00

WW 556

Unusual dosier compiled in Switzerland during the war for one Jacques Feltin to gain permission from the government to lease a farm owned by Francis Perler in Fribourg. The lease lasted from February 1943 to February 1947. Extreme detail showing every economic aspect of the farm, application to the government, maps, etc. I was not aware that at least during the war, the government had to approve all farm leases. Rare. B

Price: $650.00

WW 555

Fascinating album produced in France at the height of the Occupation. It shows caricatures of various horse racing personalities. There were only 320 copies issued. The first hundred are hand painted. This is #54. Someone has filled in the complete names on the first page. Extremely rare. B

Price: $500.00

WW 554