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05-21-2010 05:44 PM
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Re: SS-Untersturmführer, captured in Normandy
Really nice and interesting photos!
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Re: SS-Untersturmführer, captured in Normandy
Hi Reibert
That is a great photo.
I would like to know who that Untersturmfuhrer is too! What an expression he has !
Nick
"In all my years as a soldier, I have never seen men fight so hard." - SS Obergruppenfuhrer Wilhelm Bittrich - Arnhem
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Re: SS-Untersturmführer, captured in Normandy
I think hes thinking, "thats not my ss dagger hes got hold of"
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Re: SS-Untersturmführer, captured in Normandy
A very arrogant and defiant look about him. He obviously only posed for photos in profile!
Looking for LDO marked EK2s and items relating to U-406.....
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Re: SS-Untersturmführer, captured in Normandy
@ Dave and Ade
This man is not your enemy, (nore he was then ...) !
This man was a soldier, and, believe me, I really don´t think, he was "posing" for the camera´s ! ...
Yes, this man was wearing the uniform of the Waffen-SS, but, do you really think, he was "better" or "worse" than other German soldier´s, (or some soldier´s they´re wearing british, american, french or russian uniform´s ?) ?
This Lieutenant surely "spent" some bitter year´s of fighting on the Western, (maybe also the Eastern ?), front.
Not every soldier, wearing the "double Sig-rune" on his collar, was a monster ...
The Grandpa of my "Ex" was also wearing the Waffen-SS uniform but I know, he don´t was a "lover of war" ...
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Re: SS-Untersturmführer, captured in Normandy
how woud you look after capturing of the enemy
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Re: SS-Untersturmführer, captured in Normandy
One of the very well known photos from Normandy !
The gates of hell were opened and we accepted the invitation to enter" 26/880 Lance Sgt, Edward Dyke. 26th Bn Northumberland Fusiliers , ( 3rd Tyneside Irish )
1st July 1916
Thought shall be the harder , heart the keener,
Courage the greater as our strength faileth.
Here lies our leader ,in the dust of his greatness.
Who leaves him now , be damned forever.
We who are old now shall not leave this Battle,
But lie at his feet , in the dust with our leader
House Carles at the Battle of Hastings
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Re: SS-Untersturmführer, captured in Normandy
Perhaps it is possible to find out who he/they are. From archives, the unit
and where these guys were when captured. They look like press photos,
so there would have been captions for them, and if a list of
all the officers in the unit still survives..........
One would have to do a heck of a lot of research.
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Re: SS-Untersturmführer, captured in Normandy
I think it's simply a proud man that's seen alot of his friends die, fighting for a country he loved, and all equaling a lost cause. Pretty darn hard to pass judgement on a man with only the photo as evidence. It would be great to find out more about all of them. Thanks for sharing. I had not seen this photo before.
Jay
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