Family Photos and Films

[kapitanprien]

Here are photos of my family:

Mother: Margarete Bohstedt (Born - Clara Emma Margarete Schalck) - Born 20. April 1882. Died 23. March 1954 (lung cancer) - aged 71. Was an art instructor in Leipzig.




Half-Sister Liese (Lieselotte) Bohstedt: (Born - Margarete Elisabeth-Charlotte Bohstedt) - baptized on 24. April 1918, born 30. October 1917.



Half-Brother Hans-Joachim Bohstedt: (Achim) L.z.S. U 389. Born 27. June 1920. Died 5. October 1943 (depth charge attack) - aged 23.

[msmir]

Very interesting how you had gotten that, thanks for sharing

[kapitanprien]

Yep it is interesting

I wound up with quite a bit of information that was not formerly on the Wiki site or anywhere - that's why it took years...and some 'behind the scenes' help from complete strangers.

[privatetucker]

That's so so amazing that you were able to track down those photos and films!!!

I can imagine how hard that search must have been (I have been trying too with little success on my own thus far) so that's really great that you managed to find them again. =)

[Iseke]

Yeah, wow! How awesome that you found those! I would love to find photographs from any of my lifetimes!

And the videos are even more amazing!

(As an aside, it astounds me how many photographs exist of me now, and especially of each subsequent generation of people. I have many photographs of my life and childhood, but new babies now have thousands of pictures taken by the time they are 5. It is kind of shocking considering only a handful pf people in the early eras ever got to have a photograph of themselves at all, and now with the technology at our disposal each person is saturated in them. In the context of the unlikelihood of there being many photos of my past selves, it somehow seems all the more significant to me.)

[kapitanprien]

Yep - the one film (both are on YouTube) is of the celebrations from the successful Scapa Flow raid. The other is a collection of various films - some date from 1940.

I had just finished putting up all the other things that were in the Hermann Historica auction in a new photo album in my site. (I don't know why I didn't do that earlier...but...it's done now at any rate.)

[Iseke]

Do you have physical copies of these photos, or are they digital?

[kapitanprien]

I don't have any 'photocopies' of the photos as the originals were in an auction lot in Hermann Historica - and were being auctioned off in Germany back in 2007.

[kapitanprien]

This film - 'The Cape Horn Road' by Alan Villiers shows what it was like to serve on a Cape Horn ship back then. (The original film is longer - but it was nice to find this bit on You Tube). I had served on two - the Hamburg and the Oldenburg. This is the best way I can give one a 'taste' of what it was like for me.

[Laurasia]

VERY interesting indeed! Thank you for sharing them, Prien. Unfortunately I am unable to view video on my computer, but the photos are very interesting as well.

Sincerely,
Laurasia

[kapitanprien]

You're Welcome I had been able to obtain some more interesting photographs as I had been in contact with another reenactor/living historian regarding the book "Doenitz's Crews". I had been interested in buying this book, but hesitated due to cost and I couldn't find any views of the content. He kindly emailed me with some photos and there is a chapter in the book about me...so I'm interested in getting the book and will probably do so next month.

[kapitanprien]

Some other photos that I have on hand: