GFM Erwin Rommel - drei Fotoalben und ein Aktenordner mit über 650 Aufnahmen aus Nordafrika, vom Atlantikwall, nach seiner Verwundung und von seiner Beisetzung
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Lot 2472 | GFM Erwin Rommel - drei Fotoalben und ein Aktenordner mit über 650 Aufnahmen aus Nordafrika, vom Atlantikwall, nach seiner Verwundung und von seiner Beisetzung
Die Fotos unterschiedlicher Formate in nicht chronologischer Reihenfolge, in die Alben bzw. auf Albumseiten im Ordner in Fotoecken geklebt. Darunter auch einige wenige Nachdrucke bzw. Aufnahmen aus Presseerzeugnissen. Ein Album mit teilweiser Bleistiftbeschriftung. Nordafrika: rund 160 Aufnahmen, Rommel bei Besichtigungen, mit Afrikakämpfern, zahlreiche Aufnahmen mit seiner Staubschutzbrille über der Schirmmütze, an Beutefahrzeugen, auch Aufnahmen von Geschützstellungen, Wüstenfriedhof, Postverteilung, Schiffskonvoi, Abladen eines Halbkettenfahrzeugs von Bord eines Schiffes, Lagerleben, italienische Offiziere, Geschossexplosionen, Spähfahrzeuge und Panzer, Einheimische, Kamel-Karawanen und antike Stätten.
Atlantikwall und wohl auch Italien: rund 450 Aufnahmen, zahlreiche Aufnahmen der verschiedenen Abwehrmaßnahmen von Minen über "Rommelspargel", "Steinhaufen gegen Luftlandung", etliche Aufnahmen von Rommel bei Besichtigungen, Besprechungen, dabei auch Admiral Ruge, sein Stabschef General Hans Speidel und andere Offiziere seines Stabes und vieles, vieles mehr. Verwundung und Beisetzung: nach zehn Portraitaufnahmen Rommels folgen zwei Portraits nach seiner Verwundung am 17. Juli 1944, ein Stillleben mit zwei Generalsschirmmützen und zwei Interims-Marschallstäben sowie vier Aufnahmen des aufgebahrten Rommel, eines des Trauerzugs bei der Beisetzung und ein späteres Farbfoto seines Grabes. Dabei auch ein Foto General Speidels mit rückseitiger signierter Widmung an Rommels Ordonnanzoffizier Hellmuth Lang sowie Stempel von David Irving (der dieses Foto in seiner Rommel-Biographie verwendete).
Einmalige Sammlung über Rommels Werdegang vom "Wüstenfuchs" und Helden in Nordafrika bis hin zum erzwungenen Suizid des in Ungnade gefallenen Generalfeldmarschalls. Zumindest ein Teil, wenn nicht alle Fotos dürften aus dem Nachlass von Rommels Adjutanten Hellmuth Lang stammen, wie auch die Todesanzeige Rommels vom 14.10.1944 sowie das zugehörige Trauerkuvert, adressiert an "Frau Maria Lang - Schw. Gmünd", belegen.
GFM Erwin Rommel - three photograph albums and a folder with over 650 pictures from North Africa, the Atlantic Wall, after his injury and of his funeral
GFM Erwin Rommel - three photograph albums and a folder with over 650 pictures from North Africa, the Atlantic Wall, after his injury and of his funeral
Photographs of various sizes not in chronological order, glued into the albums and on album pages in the folder in photo corners. Among them a few reprints and pictures from press releases. One album partly captioned with pencil. North Africa: roughly 160 photographs, Rommel at inspections, with Africa fighters, numerous pictures of him wearing his dust goggles on his visor cap, at captured vehicles, also views of gun emplacements, desert cemetery, distribution of mail, ship convoy, unloading a half-track vehicle off a ship, camp life, Italian officers, explosions of grenades, reconnaissance vehicles and tanks, natives, camel caravans and antique sites.
Atlantic Wall and presumably also Italy: approximately 450 photographs, numerous views of the various defensive actions against mines through "Rommel’s asparagus", (tr.) "stone heaps against airborne landing", a number of pictures of Rommel at inspections, meetings, among them Admiral Ruge, his chief-of-staff General Hans Speidel and other officers of his staff, and much more. Injury and funeral: ten portrait photographs of Rommel are followed by two portraits after being wounded on 17 July 1944, a still life with two general's visor caps and two interim marshal batons as well as four pictures of Rommel lying in state, one of the funeral procession and a later colour photograph of his grave. Among them also a photograph of General Speidel with signed dedication to Rommel’s aide-de-camp Hellmuth Lang on the obverse and stamp of David Irving (who used this picture in his biography of Rommel).
Unique collection documenting Rommel’s career from "Desert Fox" and hero in North Africa to the forced suicide of the general field marshal who had fallen into disgrace. At least a part, if not all, photographs probably come from the estate of Rommel’s adjutant Hellmuth Lang, as also evidenced by Rommel’s obituary dated 14 October 1944 and the accompanying envelope, addressed to "Frau Maria Lang - Schw. Gmünd".
Condition: II +
Auction house category: | Africa Corps |
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Auction house category: | Africa Corps |
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