Got these for $60 yesterday at an auction. I was wondering the authenticity of the eagle and if possible, who are the prisoners in the photo. If I need to make a new thread of the photo just say!
Italian SS sleeve eagle + prisoners photo
Got these for $60 yesterday at an auction. I was wondering the authenticity of the eagle and if possible, who are the prisoners in the photo. If I need to make a new thread of the photo just say!
Looks like a nice original eagle is it uniform removed.
I can't help with photo Sorry.
Cheers
Dave
It is authentic. Most of them are found unissued.
in its time of splendor
Jedem das Seine
Thanks for the responses!
Looks good.
There is a nice one for sale on GWB
Nick
"In all my years as a soldier, I have never seen men fight so hard." - SS Obergruppenfuhrer Wilhelm Bittrich - Arnhem
pics probably Tunis after the surrender.nice badge too.
Is it just me or are their airplanes in the background?
Gustav Fritz Julius von Vaerst
9 May 1943-ca. 1946/1947: Prisoner of war in British captivity. (Pushed into a pocket southeast of Bizerta by the British-American linkup at Protville in Tunisia, General der Panzertruppe von Vaerst unconditionally surrendered his battered 5th Panzer Army on 9 May 1943 to Lieutenant General Omar N. Bradley's U.S. II Corps. wiki
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Jedem das Seine
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