Flick und Putzstunde in the Waffen SS: puzzles for the decades that lie ahead

[Friedrich-Berthold]

This SS man smiles while he works with needle and thread, knowing that decades hence, in a new century, his handicraft will generate dozens of crazed posts by those here who can only poorly decipher the meaning of this image.

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If he is looking in on this from Vahalla, will likely thinks that we are all very nuts.

[Friedrich-Berthold]

I found this image here, which is a website to please many enthusiasts courtesy of the US National Archives.

Kriegsberichter Archive

[Friedrich-Berthold]

Here is another image of some poetry with a dirty field cap for dog care worn by this Ritterkreuztraeger whose name will be known to some here.

[Friedrich-Berthold]

"Sepp" Dietrich not only liked his German pointer but also kittens, die waren alle so ziemlich tierlieb....!!

[Friedrich-Berthold]

I own a cap not unlike that of this officer in the LAH....but without cat hair.

[Woolgar]

Not the cold-hearted, emotionless brutes as perceived by most

Nick

[HPL2008]

I found this image here, which is a website to please many enthusiasts courtesy of the US National Archives.

Kriegsberichter Archive

A site that is well worth visiting.

Of note (among many other things) are Kriegsberichter Homann's photos of the Heydrich funeral, although these are well-known.
More obscure and thus even more interesting are Kriegsberichter Dürr's images of the Hungarian Ethnic German Waffen-SS volunteers and Kriegsberichter Fritsch's photographs of other Hungarian Volksdeutsche wearing the uniform of the Deutsche Mannschaft.

Oh, and the dog-loving RKT is, of course, Gerhard (Gerd) Bremer.

[Friedrich-Berthold]

Thank you, colleague, you are always a great help. I must confess that I do not concentrate on Ritterkreuztraeger, being more oriented to persons in black tunics, ethnic cleansers and mass murderers and such.

I have seen these Waffen SS pictures from the National Archives for over a generation. There was an odd little book of them published here in the US in the late '60s and the '70s as contact prints and such.

In any case, I added the link for the use of those here, since, as Uniformkunde the material is compelling.

[Friedrich-Berthold]

Thanks, Andreas, for the tip about the Heydrich funeral images. I had seen what must have been Bauer images of this event, but not precisely these images. Danke vielmals.

[Friedrich-Berthold]

From here to there in eight years....