Death Cards

[Schwul]

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

 

[Bootboy82]

What are "German death cards"?

The only death card I know is the Ace of Spades

:rambo:

 

[Schwul]

What are "German death cards"?

The only death card I know is the Ace of Spades

:rambo:

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]

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]

Where would you get something like that?! :?

 

[Locke]

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]

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/v492/spootwagon/deathcardsx.jpg

 

[Bootboy82]

Now I got it.

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

 

[Schwul]

Now I got it.

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

What are those?

 

[FO Seaman]

Where would you get something like that?! :?

Ebay. http://search.ebay.com/Death-cards_...tionZcompareQQcopagenumZ1QQcoentrypageZsearch