Article about: Dear Colleague, in contrast, here is an Austrian Allgemeine SS man, but I think of a higher echelon of command. I think colleague d'alquen originally furnished us this image. My wild guess i
The Polish entitled image is of Himmler's award of the Germanische Leistungsrune to Dutch germanische SS men, I think. Someone else will know better than I.
The Polish entitled image is of Himmler's award of the Germanische Leistungsrune to Dutch germanische SS men, I think. Someone else will know better than I.
Agreed. If memory serves, the ceremony took place at the Dutch SS school at Avegoor in 1944.
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 the various Hauptämter and Oberabschnitte.
Just read up on the ''golden pheasant' Murr: Gauleiter who fled Stuttgart after encouraging the inhabitants to defend the city and his 21 year old son in the SS committed suicide when accused of rape.
Just your average well adjusted family!
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 the various Hauptämter and Oberabschnitte.
Some images of Heydrich's funeral in June 1942 with the Allgemeine SS among the funeral party in the Invaliden Friedhof in Berlin. Thanks to Andreas for alerting me to this file of images, many of which I had not seen.
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