Feldgrau.net

Hi, I bought a beat up old silver pocket watch from an antique store a few years ago, its a silver plated Remontoir....I never noticed the inscription until now, it says Ehrenpreis unteroffizier schiessen 1906 Von Holstein Hptm. in(?) Komp Chef. which as far as my german reading ability goes, says s...

hi, my great grandfather was killed in world war 1, he was a german soldier, i know a lot of ww2 archives, but whats a good source for getting information about a soldier from the first war, does wast do it? thanks.

Hi everybody, I'm doing research on my grandfather. Aside from the information i've received from WAST and Landesamt etc...I know very little about where he was and when during the war... I've tried to type in some unit and company numbers and locations from those 2 sources into a search engine to t...

Hi , this is a cropped picture of my grandfather, the only one i have of him in uniform, taken about 1942, he was an enlisted luftwaffe pilot. Its actually his marriage photo..... http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/northman742002/detail?.dir=305b&.dnm=4d1fre2.jpg&.src=ph The photo is not very goo...

I'm interested in military information for my grandfather as well....what kind of answers does WAST give?? Is it just confirmation that he was in the military, or do they go into specifics......if so how specific? could somebody give me an example based on their experience with it? thanks

m.

no, I didn't , thanks very much, sounds promising. Any other ideas? anybody?

Hi there, I'm trying to do some research on my grandfather, he was a pilot in the luftwaffe during the war and had a very eclectic career by all accounts. Everything I know about him is from stories, but i've always wanted to get ahold of some of his military records or at least read about a specifi...