Germany, Heer. A Private Wartime Photo Album, 118th Infantry Regiment

(Kriegserinnerungen). A black, leather-bound photo album, the front cover presents a silvered metal (non-magnetic) stahlhelm and the bottom reading “Kriegserinnerungen” (“War Memories”), contains 26 pages with over 100 black-and-white photographs glued in place on both sides of each page, each page separated by vellum inserts, bound by a tri-colour string fed through two drilled holes with reinforced eyelets and tied in a knot at the front. The photographs depict activities such as training, marching, writing correspondence, dining, traveling by train, and show scenes of a military band, barracks, Flak artillery, bombed streets, fox holes and trenches, a landed Soviet aircraft, tanks, and war graves. Specifically, a war grave for the 7th Company of the 118th Infantry Regiment (36th Infantry Division), with visible gravemarkers for Gefreiter Fritz Geber, Schütz Franz Höfer, Gefreiter Paul Buber, and Unteroffizier Albert Zapp. An additional photograph of a war grave shows the marker for Oberleutnant Wilhelm Priesmeier of 220th Infantry Regiment (58th Infantry Division) who died on 29 August 1941, suggesting the location is Alexeyevka. The album measures 27 cm (l) x 19.5 cm (w) x 2.3 cm (h), displays minimal scuffing around edges, and is in extremely fine condition.