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    Notice in this picture the lack of collar tabs and shoulderboards? Must have had a ethnic make-up to the unit ? In the prior picture the soldier holding the geese does not have a sleeve eagle ? Could this unit have been a Police /poacher type unit ?in say 1943 ?
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    Quote by jimtoncar View Post
    Notice in this picture the lack of collar tabs and shoulderboards? Must have had a ethnic make-up to the unit ? In the prior picture the soldier holding the geese does not have a sleeve eagle ? Could this unit have been a Police /poacher type unit ?in say 1943 ?
    Interestingly, the two NSKK men in the last photograph are wearing no collar patches and shoulder boards, either. Personally, I don't believe that it has anything to do with an ethnic and/or penal composition of these units, but don't have an explanation for this, either.

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    same with the Baueinsatz-Ost material

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    Here are examples of this one in wear (not the best pictures but interesting imo)
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    Thanks for digging up this old thread from the archive. Haven't seen one before! Rare beast

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    Here's a fantastic history (including a high-res photo) from the following post (not mine) on reddit: Reddit - Dive into anything


    Bessarabia and northern Bukovina (Nordbuchenland) is a triangle region bordered by the two rivers Dniestr and Purt (today Moldova and districts of Ukraine). and adjacent to the Black Sea, In early 19th century, farmers from Germany started to settle in this agriculturally rich region.

    Since 1812, Bessarabia had been ruled by the Russian Empire, but a greater portion of the population was Romanian. After the World War, Rumania successfully seized this area. This new situation did not last long. One of Stalin's next targets was to take Bessarabia back into Russian hands. This had already been agreed in secrecy between Molotov and Ribbentrop when the Russo-German nonagression pact was signed.

    In June 1940, Soviet troops invaded Bessarabia and Romanian troops withdrew over the Purt river. After the invasion, Hitler wanted ethnic German population to be resettled in the conquered Poland, thus started "Umsiedlung" (resettlement) operation.

    On September 5th, Soviet and Germany agreed to resettle ethnic German population in the Reich. Though farmers had choice whether to move or not, but due to the terror of communist Soviets, most of the ethnic german population (93,000) agreed to move. This resettlement procedure was called Heimkehr der Bessarabiandeutschen (Bessarabian-german returns home).

    On September 15th, 600 Umsiedlungskommando (resettlement commandos) arrived in Bessarabia. Most members were from Allgemeine-SS. The troops immediately announced the procedure of resettlement. The farmers had to fill the forms to prove their origin and what they had at home, so that the value of property of these farmers could be reclaimed from Soviets.

    At the end of September, the great resettlement journey started. Resettlers who moved by truck or by train could carry only 35-50 kilograms of baggage. Those who moved on horse-drawn carriage could carry up to 250 kilograms, Everything else was sold off or just left to the Soviets.

    One group after another, the resettling farmers arrived at the ports along Donau, namely Galatz, Kilia and Reni. The resettlement operations had prepared 26 German, Yugoslav and Hungarian vessels for transportation. Each vessel had room for 400 to 1,000 passengers. They switched back and forth to bring all the resettlers to the port of Zemlin (near Belgrad).

    After two days and two nights, resettlers arrived at Zemlin, where temporary camp was prepared for them using airport and other facilities. After a few days, they took a train trip to 250 resettlment camps in Saxon, Franconia, Bavaria, Sudetenland and Austria. 86% of the resettlers who were considered to be "valuable" and "reliable" by the Nazi regime would colonize conquered eastern region, mainly in former Poland. But sometimes it took very long before they could move on, the last farmers moved around the end of 1942, when the tide of war was already turning.

    The resettled farmers started new life in Poland but were often harassed by Polish partisans. At night, self-organized defense forces patrolled the new villages but a few Bessarabian-German farmers would lose their lives in these clashes. In 1944, just after a couple of years of life in the new villages, the onslaught of the Soviets approached, and again the farmers had to flee to the West, losing almost all they're possessions once again.

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    Most intresting!
    Always looking for Belgian Congo stuff!
    http://out-of-congo.eklablog.com/

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    |<ris

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    Thank you for sharing this interesting story.

    Imagine being one of these farmers. Powers higher than yourself deciding you need to move to a place where you have never been before and losing everything in the process.

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