GERMAN WWII STALINGRAD GROUPING.

Five documents including citations, photographs and official documents. Excellent photograph in uniform wearing overseas cap of Kanonier Ludwig Stegmuller. A5 size citation for the Iron Cross 2nd class to Stegmuller dated 5th June 1942, folded once, pen signed by General and Divisional Commander Erwin Jaenecke, Stegmuller was serving with the Heavy Mortar Artillery Regiment 389. An official letter to his father sent June 1 st 1943 saying his son was last seen near the tractor factory on the north side of Stalingrad and nothing more was known of his fate after January 1943, another letter from the Arbeitsstab Stalingrad to his father sent June 18 th 43 on the same subject and a last letter again from the Arbeitsstab Stalingrad on June 24 th saying enquiries are bring made via the Soviet Union and other international sources. A very scarce set of documents. The Arbeitsstab Stalingrad was the official Army Organisation set up after the surrender at Stalingrad to attempt to trace whatever had happened to those taken prisoner or missing there as the Soviet Union did not recognise the International Geneva Convention regarding the treatment of prisoners of war.

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