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First published in Great Britain in 2011 by
PEN & SWORD MARITIME
an imprint of
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
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Copyright © Jon Sutherland and Diane Canwell 2011
ISBN 978 1 84884 668 5
eISBN 978 1 84468 898 2
PRC ISBN 978 1 84468 899 9
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Contents
Introduction
Chapter One
The RAD Service
Chapter Two
Horst Wessel
Chapter Three
Aboard the Schleswig Holstein
Chapter Four
Tirpitz
Chapter Five
Prisoner of War
Introduction
T
he photographs in this book are from a single album that is believed to
have been owned by Wilhelm Rosenbaum. Perhaps the pinnacle of his
career service was a period that he spent onboard the
Tirpitz,
probably
between April 1942 and March 1944. Rosenbaum was one of a few
members of the Luftwaffe who served alongside the Kriegsmarine as crew
for seaplanes on larger surface vessels.
The collection of photographs chronicles a period in the late 1930s
when Rosenbaum completed his six-month
Reichsarbeitdiensd
(RAD or
German national work service). He is thought to have undertaken this
compulsory labour service between April and September 1937.
Rosenbaum would then be required to serve for a period of at least two
years in one of the armed services. It is clear that he chose the
Kriegsmarine as the next section of his album focuses on his cadet training
aboard the masted sailing vessel,
Horst Wessel.
At this stage we assume
that this was the first part of his training as an officer in the Kriegsmarine.
We also know that Rosenbaum then went on to serve briefly on the
German armoured cruiser
Schleswig Holstein
between 1938 and 1939. At
this point the vessel was commanded by
Kapitan zur
See Gustav
Kieseritzky. A number of the photographs suggest that Rosenbaum was
onboard for the vessel's trip to the Caribbean via Spain and Venezuela.
This vessel had been part of the German High Seas Fleet in the First World
War, but by the 1930s had been downgraded to a training vessel. It was
imperative that all officer cadets had experience of serving on large
surface vessels.
By the spring of 1942 Rosenbaum had become an observer and part of a
two man crew of an Arado 196 seaplane, aboard the
Tirpitz.
He was part of
the
bordfliegergruppe
(shipboard reconnaissance squadron). It was
fortunate for Rosenbaum that he was probably not aboard and had been
transferred; possibly to northern Italy by the time the
Tirpitz
finally
succumbed to repeated attempts by the RAF to sink her off Norway. The
collection contains a set of photographs that seem to suggest that
Rosenbaum served for a period in the Mediterranean.
It is not entirely clear exactly what became of Rosenbaum directly after
his service on the
Tirpitz.
Certain parts of the unit to which he was

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