(C) Mourning the Ancient

*See below!

[Below: Cover/back/inside unfolded. Click to enlarge.]

[Below: Pages within. A photo of our boy Karl Ernst Arend.]

[Below: Close-up.]

[Below: Pages within.]

[Below: Last page/back cover.]

[Below: The last page folds out as seen here. This was a place they could store documents and other papers.]

[Below: Very rare Jalta (Yalta) harbor permit, May 31, 1943. Yalta Port is a commercial seaport in the city of Yalta, Ukraine, on the Black Sea coast of Crimea. Front.]

[Below: Reverse of Jalta Harbor permit. Odd that they used a postcard for the permit. I guess they used what they had. Printed in red, this says:

'Im Hafengebiet Jalta ist verboten:
Jegliches Fotografieren
Unberechtigter Gebrauch von Booten
Unberechtigter Schiessen.'

(In the port area Yalta it is forbidden:
Any photography
Unauthorized use of boats
Unauthorized shooting.)]

[Below: Wounded tag, November 19, 1943. This tag was attached to the wounded, it details the injury, which in the case of our man here, a bomb splinter in his eye! It also lists medication. Front.]

[Below: Reverse of wounded tag.]

[Below: Award certificate for a Black Wound Badge. Our man was wounded on November 19, 1943 and this was awarded eight days later on November 27, 1943.]

[Below: Award certificate for the Iron Cross 2nd Class. It was awarded on December 31, 1943, New Year's Eve. This is signed by the Black Sea Navy CO, Commodore Helmuth Brinkmann, who won the Knight's Cross on May 17, 1944.]

[Below: Award certificate for the Minesweepers Badge, which was awarded on August 10, 1943.]

[Below: This is a postwar document, note how they cut out the swastikas from the ink stamp... this is from May 28, 1945. Front.]

[Below: Close-up. Reverse.]