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Grins on the Wilhelmplatz in front of the chancellery, June 19401369583

Protektorat Allgemeine SS deputation at Heydrich funeral on the Prager Burg, June 19421195563

Erntedankfest, Berlin, Fall 1944.1172814

Volksturm taking of oath, Breslau, Silesia, October 1944.1151302

SS auxiliaries in Transylvania110719611071971107198

Gau Appell, Landwacht, precursor to Volksturm, Hannover Sued, August or so 19441068224 Aus: Deutscher Wochenschau

30 January 1941, Sportpalast, member of Sta. 421043178

1039097Henlein with men of Sta 100, Reichenberg (?) Sudetengau(?) ca. April 1941, if caption is to be believed....

10000321000033Volkssturm taking of oath, Praha, November, 1944.

Perhaps someone added the 1942, which I can easily understand, but you will tell me.

I am not without experience in such picture research, but I have great faith in Bunde. He is a real pro.

922555922556922557922558922559922561In April 1942, these items of uniform were still in the supply system, despite what the gun show old wives tales assert to the contrary.

922531This is or is not a portrait of an SSTV Uschaf. ca. 1 9 4 2......

It comes from the famous photo researcher, David Bunde via David Delich, whom I both salute with deep respect.

This...

919323Black uniform in wear by resettlement of Volksdeutsche, 1940.
Gnesen, Warthegau.

873886The above is a bomb proof primary source versus a collector picture book.

Of if it is a fake, please say so now so I do not mislead anyone.

873840873841873842873843873844Black Montur for sale in April 1942, despite collector group think to the contrary. And for sale via the Waffen SS....so please explain that to me.

Bravo, Andreas and our warm thanks.

which is to say that everyone misspells German names, including my own German name and many more.

863063The book on training and education in the SS that is out in the last year has a lot to say about how the Allgemeine SS worked, and how it did thus in wartime.

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Thanks to you both for the wise counsel and kind aid.

Our readers are much richer for your help, and this thread is an old war horse in our stable, with huge traction in the...

862061862062862063862064862065late 1940 SS price list, black SS items there, too, i.e. in war time.

8620598620601942 SS Bekleidungswerk price list, with black uniform in stock.

The issue of uniforms in the Volksturm is well covered in the Yelton book from Kansas University Press on this subject.
This thread is on the black SS uniform in wear from 1939 until war's end. It...

The events of the ethnic resettlement in the wake of the Molotov Ribbentrop pact in which these SS units were active are extensively treated in dozens of books, as well as
contemporary propaganda...

687275687276Black SS uniform in wear, ca. 1944 with oath taking of Volkssturm. The Danzig SS man is wearing a black uniform.

You would do us a favor and kindly make an Ulrich Graf thread some place, maybe here in the SS realm. Bob Coleman also has material from the old fighters of the first hour in his wonderful collection.