6th Mountain Division research problem

A while ago I stopped at a yard sale and ask the gentlemen having it if he had any militaria, he responded yes. He went into his house and emerged with a box that contained a large grouping of colored negatives and a photo album of WWII German Mountain Troops. I asked where he came into this great grouping, he told me it was his wife's brother that was killed in 1945 and he showed me the Death Card in the photo album of said KIA Brother. Long story short I bought the lot obviously, the photo grouping belongs to a Major in the 6th Mountain Division. I am having a bear of a time trying to find any information on this division, if some has a book reference or web site on this unite I would greatly appreciate it. I'll post some pictures of the lot in a few days. Sorry for the lack of pictures but due to my "wonderful job" none of my collection is with me at the current moment.

Thanks For Any Help, God Bless

The 6. Gebirgs-Division fought in Greece in 1941, but spent most of the war (1942-1944) fighting around Murmansk in the arctic with the 20. Gebirgs-Armee. Fairly static front where not much happened.
Some history from the Lexikon (Google can translate for you):
http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/Gebirgsdivisionen/6GebD-R.htm
http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/ArmeenGeb/20GebArmee-R.htm
(Note that the 6. Gebirgs-Division Nord in the Armee history above is the SS division, not to be confused with the Heer unit which served in the same area)

The division retreated to Norway in October 1944 and remained on the Finnish border for the remainder of the war. It apparently took part in no further fighting after arriving, so kinda odd if he died in 45. Maybe this Major was wounded during the retreat and died later?

In 1975, there was a book printed about the 6th Gebirgs Division.
Gebirgsjäger zwischen Kreta und Murmansk. Die Schicksale der 6. Gebirgsdivision


You can research details about the Major's last resting place here:
http://www.denkmalprojekt.org/en_search.htm

Thanks guys, I also have an osprey book the cover the Soviet offensive in the North Arctic, "Petsamo and Kirkenes 1944"

I was finally able to go through some of my collection and take some pictures of an album “made by the kia’s sister” and some of the colored slides he took of various camp life and missions, some of which him or his soldiers dressed as the Soviets. I’m going to start to research this lot and the kia Major.

Here’s a few more, the aluminum cylinder has negatives inside of it and the small shipping box has more rolls.

Last round of photos

Neat! He was the commander of Gebirgspanzerjager-Abteilung 47, the anti-tank battalion of the 6 Gebirgs-Division. He was seriously wounded on 30 March 1944 by a land mine while inspecting his units positions before going on leave to Germany. He died in the hospital the next day.

The Feldpost number (11217) of that shipping label is that of the 1. Kompanie. The Leutnant's name doesn't seem to be his though? I am guessing he was a Leutnant and later a Hauptmann in that company before promotion to battalion command in February.

Are those possibly slides not negatives ? They sure look it. If you had a projector you could view them.

It’s mostly slides and I have a mini hand held projector that I can view them with.

GetFuzzy2 said:

It’s mostly slides and I have a mini hand held projector that I can view them with.

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You need to find someone with a slide attachment for a scanner so you can scan them.