Here’s an interesting finding from a Latvian forest – five hermetic containers intended for German saboteurs, who acted in the time of WWII in the rear of Red Army. All these seventy years the containers were reliably protected from moisture, so the contents are preserved even better than it could be at a warehouse.
Hand grenade RGD-33. The cap well is empty.
Polish offensive grenade.
Inscriptions on the revolver covered with a layer of preservative lubricant.
Bullets in a perfect condition.
Estimate the size of a container.
Hermetically closed.
Explosives disguised to look like coal. They were thrown onto coal piles at railway stations, then they got into a locomotive furnace and incapacitated it.
Sapper’s matches.
Empty cartridge case of a German pistol was used for storage of blasting caps.
Sapper’s tools.
Detonators.
German case for blasting caps.
Fuze inside the container.
A couple of grenades RGD-33.
A box of 100 blasting caps.
Bullets.
Made in Solingen.
Magnetic mine.
Nice founds!
Omg. Want
Amazing condition.And what a find.
A bit dangeroous to handle… explosives, old detonators…
I hope they’re true pros
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Well that is amazing!
I hope this gets to a museum, but I doubt it will 🙁
Why is the cache believed to be German?
Curly , Moeski and Larry ruin historical treasures…
WHY do you say this is from German saboteurs?
Haven’t looked at but about half of this, but with a couple of exception everything I see is russian.
Sarge
Does anyone know what the engraving on the pistol says?
@L’hiver
I can not actually read it, but the ammunition is French, and the revolver is the French 1892 model, as far as I could find out. There is a tin shown that says “Schmirgel” which is German and means emery, but otherwise I can not identify anything as being German.
All this stuff was for destroy soviet-russian occupants
I grew up hearing a story from my dad’s best friend who was Hungarian and was conscripted into the German Luftwaffe in the war. He told a story of hiding pistols and grenades in a cave, coated with cosmoline for preservative. I remember him saying the cave was near Austria. As a kid, we loved the story and were some day going to find it with his map. He died, and my father has passed also. This looks like the place they were talking about!