Gentlemen.
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I am in the process of doing a in-depth study, and collecting original parts for the Kleiner Flammenwerfer.
(this type of flamethrower is mostly - wrongfully known as the Flammenwerfer 34 or 35. This abbreviation is a post war-colletor imposed name for this weapon. It would be more correct to name it as a flammenwerfer 38, as this was the year that this weapon was adopted for use by the Wehrmacht. All original german wartime documentation regarding this weapon, is mentioning it as the "Kleiner Flammenwerfer")
There is a lot of wrong and mis-information about this weapon, and how it really works around on the internet.
Even in the magazine, Waffen Arsenal there is substantional errors, regarding the flamethrower.
But how rare are these flamethrowers today? How many has survived? The later Flammenwerfer 41 is somewhat rare, but quite a few surviving examples are known.
The Kleiner flammenwerfer on the other hand, seems to be almost non-existing, or really, really scarce.
I have not even been able to find any good modern pictures of this weapon.
I know that there is, or was a example on display, in the War Museum in Kiev, Ukraine according to this:
Flammenwerfer 35 - Ogólnopolski miesi?cznik ODKRYWCA
The Kiev Flammenwerfer:
I have found another picture, from a storage room in another museum, but with a flamethrower that seems to be restored, by unknowing personel.
On this example, the small hydrogen tank is connected to the large oil and nitrogen tank, with a metal pipe wich belongs to a flammenwerfer 41. This tank configuration will not work at all on a flamethrower. The Tragegestell however looks to be a rare original example.
So my question is, how rare are these flamethrowers today? How many surviving examples are known, and how many of these are in private collections?
I regard the members and participants of this forum, to be the most qualified people regarding german flamethrowers, and also the most likely people to chime in with good substancial information and knowledge.
I will post some pictures of my own Kleiner Flammenwerfer project later this afternoon.
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