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A box discovered in Finland with german items from ww2 - nuk3m - 25.06.2009

I don't know how many of you did saw them already but here there are...some very conserved items..of a german soldier but i can't figure out what time of a soldier was cuz in the box were some protection glasses like the one's used in Afrika by the comander crew of the tanks...and uniform it seems to be of medium rank soldier or it was used only for ceremonyes.
Anyhow are very well conserved maybe the iced clima there...
When i've saw them it was like going back into time it's amazing...
Excuse me for my bad english..

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- kapteeni - 25.06.2009

Is this a joke?

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- nuk3m - 25.06.2009

kapteeni Wrote:Is this a joke?

Excuse me shy this stuff should be a joke?

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- P/O W. 'Moggy' Cattermole - 25.06.2009

Gosh, interesting stuff. Thanks for sharing!

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- nuk3m - 25.06.2009

P/O W. 'Moggy' Cattermole Wrote:Gosh, interesting stuff. Thanks for sharing!

Np it's amazing stuff is like 65 years ago!

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- aviatorsneah - 25.06.2009

kapteeni Wrote:Is this a joke?

i kind of wonder the same....ive seen a lot of images of people unearthing war memorabilia from WW2, but this looks just a little too good and crisp. why would some guys footlocker be buried somewhere like that? and then after 65 years everything inside is nice, dry, and pressed? the box of cigars as well?...i dont think so. if you can find a legit story or some documentation regarding this find, i'd be interested, but just looking at the pictures i think its a hoax...or something that was purposely placed there for some kind of easter egg hunt for these 'unmarked' soldiers.

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- nzwilliam - 25.06.2009

Very interesting...does look remarkably well preserved for the length of time but I guess a cold climate could explain it. If it's ligitimate it's an exceptional find!

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- bohr-r - 25.06.2009

Hi Nuk3m,

Thanks for sharing these images. Where were they found? The state of preservation seems to be excellent. Were there any records with them, such as a soldier's pay book, or a dog tag? If you want to find out more about the identity of the person who supposedly left these things back then, you could try to follow up on the name of the paymaster or provost written on the postcard. The shoulder pieces with the Aesculab symbol (snake winding around staff) on the jacket seem to indicate medical personnel.

I believe that there are institutions and records in Germany that you could access or contact for help.

There are probably still a lot of missing-persons cases from the time of WWII.

Just my two cents.


RB

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- fraidycat - 25.06.2009

There was a thread on that find at the zoo a few months ago.
i dont recall if it was genuine.

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- nuk3m - 25.06.2009

I've saw them on internet there was a site i can't find anymore the link but i've saved the immages then i've looked for some documentation about this finding,..and i've found it on a russian site i understand a little so there was a russian guy that is an expert in symbols of ww2 and like u said he was from medical personal and on the postcard it was writed for her mother..but he didn't send it...
There was even a bottle of gin there very well preserved! but i lost the immage,,,
Well they've said that this guy here was about to leave finland and go in russia...but in that period a attack occured so this guy left the box there...so there it is.
I think it's very plauseble cuz there isn't 6' m of ground above the box so i think the box was left outside...maybe in the snow so when the russian arrived they didn't saw it...and for 65 years the box get depper and depper...
Look carefylly at the braunches ( i don't know if it is written like that but u did understud me) they are cut off from abbove the box! so the guys there cut them while they were digging is natural that braunches grow under the terrain maybe close to a tree or something..
It is well preserved cuz the rubber that u see on the top of the box it was like an isolant and i think the terrain in those hard iced places is different.
Personaly i found some pieces of guns glasess clock and many many things in a quite good condition cuz i lived in romania and there is a place next to me where ww1 was fought and every time it is rayning stuff from trainches is comming out...so personaly i bellieve is an awsome discovery!

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- wheelsup_cavu - 25.06.2009

fraidycat Wrote:There was a thread on that find at the zoo a few months ago.
i dont recall if it was genuine.

The thread was in early January and it didn't end up with anything confirmed or denied.
Some thought it was fake others didn't.
Amazing Find


Wheelsup

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- KG64_Cnopicilin - 26.06.2009

They might be real or they might not be real. If the locker was closed hermetically, they might be real.

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Very intersting - ={TTU}=Zumbach - 26.06.2009

Very intresting mate thanks for sharing , In Normandy found another case like this one but a german soldier with bones , only a sceleton and now they are doing the DNA to find his family today .

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- HolyGrail - 26.06.2009

That's what I am gonna do next as soon as possible , going
through WWII battlefields and bunkers looking for stuff !! :wink:
Yep , more modern Indiana Jones

Thanks nuk3m for pictures !!

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- bohr-r - 26.06.2009

Hi Holy Grail,

Used to do a lot of that as a kid, roaming through the forests and around old bunkers and the like near where I grew up. Never found anything, though. Probably for the best. My dad was luckier in that regard, if you can call it lucky. He was nine years old in 1945. After the war, his dad (my grandfather) took him to the forest to search for abandond Panzerfaeuste (hand held anti tank weapons). My granpa had been trained in the Volkssturm and knew how to fire those things, but not how to disable them without firing. However, he needed the long tubes or barrels of these weapons to put them together to make a table for a table saw. With a table saw, he could cut wood for other people in exchange for food during those lean years, as there was a lot of construction going on, but not much to eat.
So, my dad and his dad used to collect panzerfaeuste and used them to knock down trees. "Quite exciting," my dad used to say.
Earlier, just after the Americans had captured his hometown, my father had an even more exciting adventure. Playing in the forest on a high hill with his friends, the boys found a quadruple 20 mm anti aircraft gun. With the three seats on this thing and the swivel mount, it looked just like a caroussell or a merry-go-round. So they all enthusiastically sat on those seats and started spinning the gun around. All was fun and games, until one of them found this strange pedal, not knowing that it was the trigger of the gun. The kid pressed it (don't if it was my dad, or another kid) and the whole thing went "thunck," "thunck," "thunck," thunck," "thunck." The ikds were all scared out of their wits and shortly after, a bunch of jeeps and halftracks full of US soldiers showed up, fully expecting having to take out one of the last fanatical holdouts. Finding only a few scared little kids with wet pants, they distributed rounds of chocolate, took the kids back home, and blew up the AA gun. End of story.

So, I guess the moral of this long rant is, be careful what you wish for. There is still plenty of unexploded munitons around in areas of Europe. Who knows what you might find.

Regards,

RB

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