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you're pretty nasty bro, you should at least close the door when you do that

>>4209664
OH GOD NO! ;_; That's just heartbreaking, poor MP40... is there any way to remove the rust and restore the metal back?

>>4209708

Maybe in your dreams?

Theres some better shit coming up. Stay tuned.

This is all from the same dig, mind you. I've got about 60 left. Some shocking, Some horrible, and some that will give you a FUCKING BONER.

>>4209686

Now THAT'S dangerous as shit... I like it.

Also keep in mind, this all was lost during the SAME engagement.

>>4209708

That's like asking if we can pull the Titanic off of the seabed and restore its metal, that MP-40 is done and done.

This has got to from russia.

>>4209747
The Ardennes, actually.

>>4209747

Igor sez: You are correct, sir.

Buried somewhere in Bum Fuck Germany is an MG-42 my great-uncle captured, protective wrapped the shit out of it, and buried it. If any of you find it, let me know.

This fucker died with a Panzerfaust in his hand.

How many slavs did he kill before he was taken out? We will never know.

Better shit is coming. This is only the beginning. (No, no Tiger tanks were found. This time.)

>>4209771
None, because his panzerfaust isn't even fired.

keep em coming

>>4209791
PPSh in German gear? Wouldn't have the Germans destroyed any captured enemy equipment?

fucking sweet tits

Man, if any of you live in eastern europe, buy a fucking metal detector and get that stuff! If I were born there, that would be my hobby to find all those buried guns and tanks!

4 or so pictures away from FAP WORTHY MATERIAL.

I wonder whats on his mind? (Probably not alot.)

>>4209814
nothin a little Hoppes cant take care of

I hate war relics...what is the point of owning a rusted piece of metal..

>>4209836

You mean a perfectly fine helmet? Pow, bitch!

>>4209838
That one is going in the nice gun cabinet

>>4209807
The Germans used tons of Russian gear, even a couple of captured tanks.

Germany's industry couldn't keep up with demand for much of the war, so lots and lots of captured stuff was used.

>>4209844
fake...50 odd years in the ground..all the leather would have rotted away...

>>4209851

Plus, if it's there, why not use it?

>>4209830
>>4209838
>>4209844
So... this is someone's scam to sell knock offs as genuine artifacts?

>>4209836

It's not just about the "rusted piece of metal." It's about the historical context of the object.

>>4209855

Tons of videos on youtube, search it. In most cases when we pull them from the water, the leather falls right off of the liner band. In cases like this, though, you get lucky as shit and can actually salvage it. There have been cases where, due to lack of oxygen, entire bodies have been recovered from the bogs. (Look up BOG BODIES.)

Here comes set 2.

>>4209810

>Man, if any of you live in eastern europe, buy a fucking metal detector and get that stuff! If I were born there, that would be my hobby to find all those buried guns and tanks!

Yes, and then you step on a landmine.

>>4209851
Shows you how rusty my knowledge of WWII is, I did not even know the Germans used Russian equipment.
>>4209855
Depends. If it was buried in regular dirt, then yes. If it was buried in tightly compacted mud, that when dry is as hard as hell and is not porous enough to allow worms or air to pass, then no.

>>4209859
Its a piece of rusted metal ffs...and you assholes pay for it...hahaha...

I always find these sort of digs depressing for some reason. Really interesting relics and such to be uncovered, but still...

In about 15 or so pictures you're all going to be shitting bricks.

>>4209807

The Germans really liked the PPSh-41 - it was the second-most common submachine gun in use by the Wehrmacht, after the MP.40/MP.41 series. You just load the magazines with .30 Mauser and are good to go, though they also made 9x19mm conversions.

What do they do with the bones? Do they take them to the police? Or give a proper burial for the bones at a cemetary?

Can only imagine how ferocious this firefight must have been.

>>4209877
oh yes both sides used each others equipment...

To be honest so much fake shit comes out of eastern europe these days I wouldn't trust any of it. If it looks too good to be true...prob isnt...

>>4209857
And yep, if you go to the site address, they're selling this shit. Enjoy your 'genuine' war memorabilia.

>>4209904
Random..very nice....

>>4209878

What the fuck is wrong with you? Jesus fucking christ, man. It's contemporary ARCHAEOLOGY. It's interesting.

AHHH MOTHERLAND!

BRIX. SHIT THEM.

>>4209893
Yes what do they do. I know most german relic hunters take pictures, and then cover the grave back up. For eastern europe.....go figure....

Some more incredible shit coming up.

>>4209916
No it isn't. In archeology, documenting when/where is as important if not more so then what you dig up.

It's battlefield looting.

>>4209904
Isn't that a Star Model B?

>>4209664
Cool scam Mr. Marketing Guy.
>>4209905

>>4209936

Preventing history from turning to dust doesn't quite equal looting.

>>4209918

Second largest pile of dead strippers I've seen in my life.

>>4209916
Fuck off, its simple grave robbing. Most of those sites will have remains. Contemporary if you want to do it right go with a university or a reputably museum.

And no. None of this stuff is for sale. Atleast not online. If you can book a ticket to the Czech Republic then maybe we will work something out.

Phish

>>4209942
VIS...99% sure is a radom pistol from poland...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vis_pistol

>>4209967

Correct.

>>4209955
Says it all...

>>4209929
I'm not sure, but I would imagine that the German government offers a reward for any German bodies found. The United States and Japan both offer rewards for the return of their fallen warriors.

19 left

>>4209985

It's illegal in germany as far as I know, simple fact is there are tons of unexploded devices...it's less frequent know to hear about someone driving over a mine or something but 20-30yrs ago...hell in belgium they are always digging up unexploded devices...they just leave them by the side of the road for the army to collect...

man, it never even occurred to me that you could find this much shit still sitting around.

i sort of just assumed most of the gear would have been picked up by soldiers after the battles, or by civies during/after the war.

now i'm thinking about taking my metal detector with me the next time i am going to europe, and spending a bit of quality time walking through forests.

Saving the best for last. So stay tuned. When I said bricks will be shat, I meant it.

>>4210011
inb4 picture of bricks next to skeletal pelvis.

SVT

>>4209927

Holy shit, what rank/unit was that?

OK ladies and gents, it's time for the final attraction.


All I can say is thank god for air-tight ammunition storage containers. :)

>>4209985
>German government

No, those self-hating pussies would call them war criminals of the past and dump them in some ditch just to please their Jewish overlords.

Oh, first, forgot to add this. Don't ask because we have no idea either.

>>4210052

Pay attention to the coming posts.

Let the shitting commence.

>>4210089

OPEN IT!

>>4210095


OH SHI-

>>4210102

OHOHOOHO

God dammit i've seen this one before.

Wehrmacht medical officer's goodies.

>>4210118
>>4210111
>>4210107
>>4210102
>>4210095
No fucking way. That *can't* be real.

Hahaha.

Yeah, and Im the Pope.

>>4210135

You'd think bullshit. It's real though.

I'll drop the discovery of a stug next. This set is really old though.

>>4210139
prob with that type of steel box is the czecs carried on making german kit well into the 1970's...why not if it works why stop making it. So there is no real way of say its legit or fake...

>>4210151
Translation pl0x.

>>4210157
Rank badges and stuff seem to be German though. Also, German postcard.

>>4210163

Just one more. I accidentally posted on the main /k/ while refreshing..

>>4210161
>I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries.

MP-40 found in the hull.

Love the badass winter tracks!

Thats all.

Fucking awesome dump, OP. Thanks.

>>4210320

yup

Yeah, i did get a slight chub. :/

Crazy shit.

Is this from a modern archeological dig or something?

>>4210095

Holy fucking time capsule.

This shit gives me a hard on.

Awesome thread.

I want to know how the cigars were...

>>4210712

Good i'd hope. And the liquor too!

>>4209893
>>What do they do with the bones?
in Russia we bury our dead with a military ceremony. German bones go to german embassy. And we have a few german cemetaries here too.
It's pretty widespread in western Russia. People work in the field and dig out a mass grave. People go to find some metal to sell and find 2000 pounds bomb ready to use. People go fishing and catch a plane or a tank. People go diving and found a dreadnought or submarine. Happens evey week here.

>>4210799
also ww2 weapons are used by mafia here. They are clean so police has no records. And a week ago i saw a museum worker catched with a few hundreds of rifles, machineguns, ww1 grenades, handguns and shit. Turns out this stuff is not allowed for local museums but he could not just throw it away so he fixed it and kept home. Could arm a batallion they say.

>>4210788
CzechFag here. Where do I go to join in on this? One of those skinhead army surplus shops?

>>4210814
Gangstas with nuggets?

>>4209686
what did you do with this live ordinance? probably unstable as all hell.

I only found a few shells in my Grandpa's garden...

>>4210878

Better get searching dude! Theres gotta be ATLEAST a panzerfaust in the flower bed...

>>4210915

Holy christ.

>>4209754

ask him were i pic it up for you

>>4210915
1.insert dick through back of mouth
2.Post pics
3.????
4.Profit

>>4210915

Good set of teeth that fella had.

>>4209923
awesome!!

Epic stuff

so like did the russians or something just bury everything when they moved on with the war? or was there like a landslide that buried everything?
it'd make more sense if they threw the bodies in a ditch and buried them, but why would they throw out dozens of working weapons, full cases of grenades and hundreds of perfectly shoot-able rounds?
im just trying to make sense of this

epic thread though, needs to be archived

>>4211218
So do it faggot.

http://4chanarchive.org/

>>4211233
>Thanks for your request.
It has been added to our database and the thread will be archived as soon as enough request for that thread have been made.
>This thread has been requested 2 times now.

Can we get some support?

>>4211233
ok i added my request.

so far theres only 3 requests :/

just added a request, we're 4/7 now.

Don't delete my posts, faggot.

6 requests now

Guys, if you send me money to buy a metal detector, i could dig some awesome shit for you. I live beside a huge battle field. I remember when the trees in the center of my town were cut down, they were full of bullets and shrapnels

>>4211684
Will you take a 3rd party post dated check?

>>4211684
>bullets and shrapnels
>shrapnels

>send me some money

gtfo

wat ?

only cash ! Believe me, it's worth every cent

Sup guys, send me 100,000 USD and I'll fucking dig up a Messerschmitt.

>>4210095
brix were shat

>>4211218

By '45 the Soviets were well equiped and moving fast - there was no need to scavenge battlefields for weaponary. What i find surprising is that the Czech civilians didn't loot the battlefield. In Normandy after the allies broke out of the beachhead, the French civillians grabbed everything that wasn't tied down. My father was offered MP40s for sale in the 1960s.

>>4210161

Can't really read the sideways stuff, but it doesn't look like the same handwriting and it also doesn't look like German.

The other stuff says "The Fuhrer knows only fighting, working and worrying, we want to help him with part of it, because we can help him with part of it."

>>4212075

its old german handwriting. they changed the letters in the beginning of the 50th.. old people here in germany should be able to read it, but younger can´t

>>4212099

I've always had trouble with any sort of cursive writing and I haven't lived in Germany since I was 3, so I can't read it. Do you know what it says?

>>4212108
i try it, but its real hard

the right side says:

Feldpost! (underlined)

Oberzahlmeister
Gerhard Paihler
Feldpost Nr. 48650
529

Left side
Absender: L. Paihler

so, it may be a letter of his wife or girlfriend.
but i sadly can´t even read one word of the real letter.. completly different to normal handwriting

>>4212155

Oh sorry, that bit I can read fine, I meant I can't read the actual letter, the bit that's written in a different orientation to the rest of it.

>>4212183

you would have to look for some 70-80 year old germans to read that

>>4212205

Well, my grandparents are dead, so I'm fucked.

well, shit.

I might have to take a look on the gustav line.

>>4212205

Or prehaps a historian who taught himself to read old documents.

>>4209830
My grandfather has one of these that's in pristine shape. Took it off a dead german.

i bought a mauser bayonet that is in almost perfect condition, it was found on a dead teenage german in '45

awesome thread

>>4209715


You could always try the electrolysis rust removal method, noob.

>>4213180
with that kind of rust you are "removing" EVERYTHING because everything is rusted.

This is the best thread I have ever seen on /k/.

I still cannot believe the big metal box filled with german stuff is real though. Even though I want to. I might invest in a decent metal detector in the near future.

Owning these pieces of history is something that makes my penis hard as diamonds.

can you give me some hints how to find a good place to dig or to detekt?