Here are some of the pictures taken in 1939 and winter 1940 during the service at the Western Wall in Western Germany at the beginning of WW2.
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The repairing unit of the grandfather of the author of this websites in Western Germany, November 1939.
Gun exercise, October 1939.
A motorcycle called Glichermuhle, in November 1939.
Food for the German soldiers in September 1939.
The German soldiers with their guns.
Break of motor-cycle troops during a manoeuvre.
Visit by family members or friends, in December 1939.
Take-over of Opel trucks at Russelsheim (where the Opel factory is still until today), near Frankfurt in February 1940.
The unit is standing in line at Russelsheim.
The German soldiers are happy to be released from service in 10 days ("it's all the same to us, in 10 days it's over - club of the reservists").
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