WW2 German photograph album, 1933-43

* WW2 German photograph album. Believed to be compiled by Josef Lehmler, and recording his police and military career 1933-43, comprising approximately 280 photopgraphs mounted on 32 leaves recto and verso, various sizes, a few detached, a couple with some loss from abrasions, several captioned beneath, some marginal toning to a few leaves, original cloth string-bound covers with Nazi eagle and swastika emblem to upper cover, a few light stains, 18.5 x 24.5 cm QTY: (1) NOTE: The album commences with Josef Lehmler's time at the Hann Munden Police Academy in Lower Saxony in 1933 before moving on to 1936 to the Kleve military registration office where presumably he enrolled in the German army. The German offensive in Western Europe is recorded with a photograph dated 30 August 1940 in Monschau near the Belgian border, at the Canadian war memorial in Saint Julien, the Arc de Triomphe in Paris and near the Dunkirk lighthouse. The album moves on to Ukraine, with photographs taken in Simferepol and Kiev. At the end of the album, at Birlenbach there is a temporary identity card for Lehmler, age 34, with the profession 'War Disabled Merchant' indicating he may have been invalided out of the army and survived the war. Additionally there is a handwritten card 'From Russia I send you, dear Mother, my best wishes for a happy birthday, Albert', dated 12 April 1943, and a black-bordered card bearing the name 'Albert Kalkofen', dated 16 November 1943 and 'Fighting in northern Smolensk'.