Large Luftwaffe Afrika Korps Photograph Album with Images of Rommel, Kesselring, British Prisoners, and Aircraft

The leather bound album is approximately 7-3/4 inches by 9-1/4 inches by 1-3/4 inches, and the album contains approximately 377 photographs. The album bears a handwritten notation inside the cover of “17 Monate Einsatz in Nordafrika Marz 1941-August 1942” (“17 months of service in North Africa March 1941-August 1942”). The album includes a number of commercially produced souvenir pictures of Rome and Italy, but otherwise the album contains original photographs taken by a Luftwaffe soldier in the Afrika Korps, many with handwritten captions. The mages include pictures of local people in Africa; a Stuka dive bomber on the ground and in flight; Luftwaffe personnel in various tropical uniforms; British prisoners of war marching with their hands in the air, apparently taken at Tobruk and captioned “Tommys”; battle damage scenes; a submarine , possibly a U-Boat, moving on the surface; a photograph of Generalmajor Gustav von Vaerst, shows in tropical uniform and wearing his Pour Le Merite (He was the last commander of the 5th Panzer Army, which was trapped in Northern Tunisia, between 28 February and 9 May 1943. He surrendered with his army to the British and Americans and was held in captivity until his release in 1947); a photograph of Erwin Rommel; a photograph of Luftwaffe General Albert Kesselring, wearing a flight suit;  a photograph of Luftwaffe General Stefan Fröhlich, wearing the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross; and other images of the German military in North Africa. The blue leather spine of the album shows scuffing, but the album is in overall very good condition.