Help with Suetterlinschrift

Bought at auction a small box of photographs that were overlooked, the usual landscape and Parisian motifs, but I had noticed German soldiers in a few.
Going through the three dozen or more small prints and a few notes on the box and backs, I was able to determine that they were images taken by a member of the 3e Kompanie, Pionier Battailon 88, which was subordinated to the Infantrie Division 46. They seem to be of the move into France in 1940, shortly after the 3e Kom was formed, and show a few POW shots, damaged bridges, a damaged Hurricane, Somua and Char B1, and group hangout shots. The rest are typical tourist shots of the Parisian area taken after the defeat, showing some Germans touring on their own and in groups. The nice thing is that the LT wrote on teh back of nearly every image, including the postcards! When I got the box after the winning bid, I turned over the inner container and determined that the box was the one used to mail them to his wife in Deggendorf, the home base of the Battailon near Regensburg, had the Feldpost nr and even had a feldpost cancelling stamp over the 'Elsass' overprinted stamp....

What I need help in is the Sutterlin script on the back- I never learned it and it is a disappearing writing form. I can send pics of a few key images and hopefully I can learn to decipher it soon!

Danke vielmals-

Matt

The texts on the back are just describtions of what you can see on the pictures like destroyed French airplane,...etc.

Thank you- there are other images I am hoping to find location, etc and maybe stumble on more background. It fascinated me and I suppose I will use it to work on my German!

matthanne said:

Thank you- there are other images I am hoping to find location, etc and maybe stumble on more background. It fascinated me and I suppose I will use it to work on my German!

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I can't see any place names on the scans you shown.
In the past I collected photos and photo albums, writing on the back can be an aid but it also can be a false clue, for example the soldier has written on the back "Calais" but the picture was in fact taken in Boulogne, these pictures were printed weeks if not months after they were taken and sometimes the text was even written on them after the war, mistakes are thus easily made.
This will be great aid to decipher the script on the back of the pictures:

http://www.suetterlinschrift.de/Lese/Sutterlin0.htm

Hello,
I'll give it a try.

17 ## zerstörte französische Flugzeuge an der Straße ?? -??
17 ## destroyed french airplanes on the road ?? - ??

Im Quartier Grand ?? "Schule"
In our quarters, Grand ?? "school"

Unser Panzer in Grand ??
Our tank in Grand ??

Zerstörter? Panzer der Franzosen in den Straßen von ??
destroyed? french tank in the streets of ??
Not sure about the first word.


Hope this helps
Thanks
Wolfgang

Thank you for your help, am working on them now. The unit attribution of 3e Kompanie/PiBat88 came from the FPNr on the box, and one image also has the white stag ID46 logo in it. The rest seem to be of Parisian sights, Invalides, Eiffel Tower, Trocadero, usw. In the image that says 'our' tank, it may have been one captured or surrendered intact and providing entertainment. Further corroboration of the unit comes from the wife's address in Deggendorf, and at least some of the pictures seem to be reprints or to have been printed in Deggendorf (developer name on back). Not sure if our LT had a chance to get them developed before sending them, or how the writing came to be on them unless he did so while on leave.

Getting better, some are names which will always be a little harder to decipher.

Also, I found some reports that some soldiers from teh ID46 shot Senegalese prisoners from the 44th RICMS, there is a view of a PW holding area, some French prisoners and of one obviously Colonial troop in teh box. No indication that this was in any way involved, though.