The above document is from the time when the Postschutz had come under the control of the SS (after May 1942) and its personnel wore SS uniforms and insignia.
Postschutz personnel in the occupied...
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The above document is from the time when the...
The above document is from the time when the Postschutz had come under the control of the SS (after May 1942) and its personnel wore SS uniforms and insignia.
Postschutz personnel in the occupied...
It also describes in great detail how young...
It also describes in great detail how young farmers and farmers' sons were actively encouraged to join the SS and how agronomers, senior figures of the farming community and other personnel from...
This has to be the man in question (apparently,...
This has to be the man in question (apparently, the paper misspelled his name):
Name: Zschirnt Kurt
Date of birth: 10 Jan. 1897
NSDAP no.: 3 064 682
SS no.: 308 267
SS Promotion dates:
- 1...
The white leather equipment was not universally...
The white leather equipment was not universally worn throughout the SS, but restricted to the Leibstandarte. Original pieces are very rare.
Re: Black SS uniform in wear, 1943
I would tend to agree. The black uniform would be unusual for an SD officer in 1940. However, blank collar patches were not exclusively worn by the SD/Sipo, but also (among others) by personnel of...
Re: Black SS uniform in wear, 1943
Agreed. If memory serves, the ceremony took place at the Dutch SS school at Avegoor in 1944.
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In that case, he was mistaken.
By the war years, both the SSTV and the combat formations of the W-SS wore field grey uniforms for all occasions, while prior to the outbreak of war, both wore the...
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To follow the order in that cartoon, you mean? ;)
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Interestingly, in addition to at least two Knight's Cross holders, the group contains none other than Paul Hausser himself.
Unsurprisingly, Karl Wolff, Oswald Pohl and the instantly recognizable...
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That would be August Eigruber. More from that visit can be found here:
Category:Mauthausen-Gusen Himmler visit - Wikimedia Commons
Re: Black SS uniform in wear, 1943
You are quite welcome. Actually, the discovery of the genealogical website - over which I probably would never have stumbled were it not for my internet search prompted by this thread - was quite a...
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You beat me to the answer: I agree that these are very likely not wartime images. According to the SS-Dienstalterslisten, he was promoted to Standartenführer in the Allgemeine-SS on 30 January 1937. ...
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As an addendum (I should have Google'd him before)... Here is the relevant page on his family's genealogical website:
Gunter d'Alquen
Re: Black SS uniform in wear, 1943
On 15 May 1945, d'Alquen and the remainder of his staff surrendered in Mauterndorf (Austria).
D'Alquen was in British captivity up until 1948, following which spent another two years in American...
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It might not count... But it's a great photo anyway!
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Thanks to the color version of the photograph turning up and the miracles of the "Tineye.com" reverse image search I managed to identify the movie: It's a Czech film called "Pramen života" /...
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Allow me to add a postscript to my earlier post.
The "Ghetto Fighter's House" picture archive (from where the image originates) identifies it as showing "Jewish women from the Lodz ghetto boarding...
Re: Black SS uniform in wear, 1943
The two numbered collar patches visible in the photograph appear to be for the 112th Standarte, which would make sense for a picture taken in Poland, as that unit was headquartered in Litzmannstadt,...
