Topic: Death Cards

Schwul · January 5th, 2005

As morbid as this sounds, does anyone else collect "German Death Cards"?

Bootboy82 · January 5th, 2005

What are "German death cards"?

The only death card I know is the Ace of Spades

Schwul · January 5th, 2005

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Originally Posted by Bootboy82

What are "German death cards"?

The only death card I know is the Ace of Spades

Yeah, I should have explained better...
German Death Cards are what they send to the family when someone dies in battle. They have a picture of the dead, and some text about them on it.

implicature · January 5th, 2005

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Originally Posted by Schwul

Yeah, I should have explained better...
German Death Cards are what they send to the family when someone dies in battle. They have a picture of the dead, and some text about them on it.

no... and that sounds a little wierd.. why do you collect them, if you do collect them?

c/Commander · January 5th, 2005

Where would you get something like that?!

Locke · January 7th, 2005

yikes, whenyou said death cards i thought you meant like in Apocolypse Now, where they put the pack of cards on the people (NVA??) they have killed

Schwul · January 11th, 2005

Well, to answer implicature and c/, I collect them because I find them interesting. I also find it sad that many of these cards are tossed aside when they really have so much value... at least I'd think so. When I say value, I mean emotional, I mean they were given to the family for the death of a loved one...
Here's a photo:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...eathcardsx.jpg

Bootboy82 · January 12th, 2005

Now I got it.

First I thought you were talking about certificates of death (Totenscheine).

Schwul · January 12th, 2005

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Originally Posted by Bootboy82

Now I got it.

First I thought you were talking about certificates of death (Totenscheine).

What are those?

FO Seaman · February 27th, 2005

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Originally Posted by c/LtCdr

Where would you get something like that?!

Ebay. http://search.ebay.com/Death-cards_M...trypageZsearch

January 5th, 2005	Post 1
Schwul Optio	Post; Death Cards As morbid as this sounds, does anyone else collect "German Death Cards"? __________________ Was machen wir heute Abend? What shall we do this evening?

January 5th, 2005	Post 2
Bootboy82 Centurion	What are "German death cards"? The only death card I know is the Ace of Spades __________________ Every drop of blood Every bitter tear Every bead of sweat I live for this If you don\'t live for something you\'ll die for nothing!

January 5th, 2005	Post 5
c/Commander Primus Pilus Gear	Where would you get something like that?! __________________ Midshipman 3/c, USNR

January 7th, 2005	Post 6
Locke Tribuni Angusticlavii	yikes, whenyou said death cards i thought you meant like in Apocolypse Now, where they put the pack of cards on the people (NVA??) they have killed __________________ If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two sentences. In the first place, to fulfil a solemn international obligation . . . an obligation of honor which no self-respecting man could possibly have repudiated. I say, secondly, we are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed in defiance of international good faith at the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power. Author: Rt. Hon. Herbert Henry Asquith Source: Statement, to House of Commons, Declaration of War with Germany, Aug. 4, 1914

January 11th, 2005	Post 7
Schwul Optio	Post; photo Well, to answer implicature and c/, I collect them because I find them interesting. I also find it sad that many of these cards are tossed aside when they really have so much value... at least I'd think so. When I say value, I mean emotional, I mean they were given to the family for the death of a loved one... Here's a photo: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...eathcardsx.jpg

January 12th, 2005	Post 8
Bootboy82 Centurion	Now I got it. First I thought you were talking about certificates of death (Totenscheine).

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