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03-06-2023 06:11 PM
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Where is this, please? I agree with the Luftwaffe connection - Unfortunately, I can't see any other identifying clues...
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This is in Deventer, The Netherlands.
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The soldier with spectacles in the first photo looks to be wearing a knochensack, but of course Fallschirmjäger from the time of liberation were not the Green Devils of the 1940-41 glory days, but infantry.
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BlackCat1982
The soldier with spectacles in the first photo looks to be wearing a knochensack, but of course Fallschirmjäger from the time of liberation were not the Green Devils of the 1940-41 glory days, but infantry.
Yes, I keep thinking I see the camo pattern too.
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Update: I found the same soldiers on video footage, as part of a nice small documentary on YouTube.
Interestingly, it looks like the soldier on the right is from a Heer unit (I think the cap has the Heer eagle).
See the video at: 2:32 The liberation of the Dutch town of Deventer in 1945 in color! De bevrijding van Deventer in 1945. - YouTube
Also, later on at 7:07 German POW's are being filmed and I'm not sure but the uniforms look very mixed but maybe some experts see the obvious differences.
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More likely a field division, though, as BlackCat says, these once elite units were now only so in name. In latter months, large numbers of specialist arms were being reorganised and thrown into the line (often due to a lack of equipment and resources, as well as the generally desperate situation), in the scratch Kampfgruppen.
‘Uniform’ was also becoming a lose term, with many wearing an assortment of items of Heer and Luftwaffe origin, within the same unit.
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