WW2 German Feldpost Letters Kriegsmarine, Libau Latvia 1944, Eastern Front

Original WW2 German Fieldpost - Complete 4-Letter-Set (July - September 1944). Sent from Heppenhein to Matrose Gerhard Sieger, 5. Kompanie Navigationsschule der Kriegsmarine, station in Libau, Latvia, during the final months of the German naval presence in the Baltic. These four authentic Kriegsmarine Fieldpost letters were written between 30 July 1944 and 2 September 1944, a crucial and dramatic period in the Second World War.

By mid-1944, the Eastern Front was collapsing under the Soviet summer offensives. Following Operation Bargration (June-August), the Red Army drove the Wermacht westward trough Belarus and into the Baltic States.

The Kriegsmarine base at Libau in Latvia was one of the last functioning German naval strongholds in the east - a key logistics and evacuation hub for the retreating German forces. These letters therefore represent some of the final postal connections between Germany and tge beseiged Baltic ports. All four letters were written by Gerhard Sueger's mother in Heppenheim. All envelopes match and include full sender and recipient details, maintaining complete postal and personal continuity - extremely rare for surviving wartime correspondence. This is not a random set of letters, It is a complete wartime correspondence group connecting a Kriegsmarine navigation cadet in the Baltic with his family in Germany during the last weeks before the Soviet advance overran Latvia.

It captures in real-time the uncertanty and breakdown of communication as the front disintegrated - a human document of collapsing war machine.

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