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104 - [ALPES MARITIMES / SECOND WORLD WAR] – The archives of Jean …
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Estimate €450 - €500
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[ALPES MARITIMES / SECOND WORLD WAR] – The archives of Jean Ernst, a graduate of Saint-Cyr originally from La Colle-sur-Loup, who was a prisoner at Stammlager XIIIC in Hammelburg, Bavaria: 124 letters and postcards sent via the Kriegsgefangenenpost to his parents in La Colle-sur-Loup (1941–1944), 22 issues of the newsletter for former prisoners of Stammlager XIII C (1945–1951), a manuscript entitled ‘General Information on Barbary/Morocco’ (maps, 52 pp.), a convalescence leave pass, a military medical examination certificate, repatriation card, card from the Union of Camp Associations, photographs of the camps (prisoners, activities, barracks, masses, pétanque, etc.), demobilisation form, order to transport 1,200 prisoners of war from Aubagne to Ajaccio… Enclosed is the military and resistance file of Désiré Ernst, alias Émile Delaporte, a reserve captain: mobilisation order, several forged resistance identity documents, a summons from the General commanding the garrison of Nice, a mimeographed letter from General de Gaulle, *La Marseillaise* by the Italians, maps of the Croix de Feu and the MUR, etc. Several hundred items
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About the sale Catalogue sale of antique and modern books, engravings and documents
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Auction time 09/29/2026 at 10:30 AM
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