4.1943 Waffen SS to Vrbanja, Croatia

 

19.04.1943 letter from SS-Truppenübungsplatz “Debica”/“Heidelager” to Vrbanja ,Croatia. There are following cancels: feldpost cancel 19.04.1943, cancel Waffen SS/ SS Rekr. Depot Debica, AS- SS censor cancel and arrival cancel Vrbanja 10.05.1943. Text is in Croatian an SS-man a Croatian volksdeutsche named Plaff is writing to his wife. He notes that his unit is moving soon to France.  Waffen SS training grounds Debica were on 15.03.1943 renamed Heidelager, hence the old name is in cancel. On the back cover adress is Pustkovo, Distrikt Krakau, G.G (Generalgouvernement). Pustkow is a village near Debica which is a city in Poland, near Krakow.

Gorski zdrugovi Domobranstva - Mountain brigades of NDH

I posted a new article about Mountain brigades - Gorski zdrugovi (click!) or use link at Articles in English at the top right of the page. 

 Here i will post some photos of mail from Gorski zdrugovi:

28.06.1943 I.battalion II. Gorski zdrug

12.08.1944 cancel in green colour : Stožer 9.gorske pukovnije (Headquarters of 9th mountain regiment) 2.Gorski zdrug

12.06.1942 3.Gorska pješačka pukovnija(Mountain infantry regiment), III.Gorski zdrug

10.1944 I.bojna II.Gorskog zdruga, written in old numeration, it should be I.bojna 2.Gorskog zdruga. (I.battalion 2.Mountain brigade)

11.06.1943 2.satnija II.bojne V. Gorskog zdruga (2,company,II.battalion, V. Mountain brigade),official mail with unit cancels.

13.02.1943 Osnutak doknadne bojne II.Gorski zdrug Požega (replacement battalion II.Mountain brigade)

 

4.1943 - Zemun, Croatia to Regia Scuola Tecnica di Polizia, Roma, Italia

 21.04.1943 Easter card from  a member of Zapovjedničtvo redarstvene straže in  Zemun, Croatia (Headquarters of police guards) to tenente (Lieutenant) in Regia Scuola Tecnica di Polizia in Roma, Italy. (Police academy in Rome). 

Members of Croatian military(domobranstvo), gendarmerie(oružništvo) and police(redarstvo) were trained in Reich and Italy as well. Huge part of those men were trained in Germany , therfore mail from and to Italian military and police schools is very rare.

When Italy surrendered in 9.1943  there were 125 Croatian police and gendarmerie members training in Rome, this card is most likely from a former pupil of this police academy in Rome.

04.1916 K.u.K Maschinengewehr Abt.Inf.Rgt 53 to Croatia

 06.04.1916 KuK feldpost card from Maschinengewehr Abteilung No.5, I.batallion, 53.Infantry regiment to Novi Slankamen , Syrmia , Slavonia. At the time Novi Slankamen was inhabited mostly by Croats and this card is written in Croatian. Inf.regiment 53. von Dankl was common army unit that recruited mostly around Zagreb but Croats from other areas were also included in the unit. Mailed via Fp.71 that served XI. corps on the Russian front, sender writtes that he is looking at domes of Černovica(Czernowitz,Bukowina).