an image I blundered upon The image may be that of colleague Dimas.
Allgemeine SS martyr cuff title 1 Sturm 49. Sta Braunschweig
an image I blundered upon The image may be that of colleague Dimas.
Last edited by Friedrich-Berthold; 01-02-2020 at 05:07 PM.
I own something not unlike it, still in situ from long, long ago.
Here are some other relevant images, with thanks to one of my colleagues here.
Landmann was part of Nazi violence that began on a small scale and via the SS engulfed Europe to misery of tens of millions.
"Gerhard Landmann (6 May 1904 - 29 June 1933) was a German businessman and SS member He came to wider prominence after he was shot dead.[1][2]
Life
Gerhard Landmann was born in Braunschweig. His father was a buildings inspector. Landmann trained for a commercial career and then had various jobs. At one stage he was a candidate for a job with the city council. Long before 1933 he joined the Nazi party, and in 1932 he joined its quasi-military wing, identified in sources as the SS (Schutzstaffel / "Protection Squadron").[2]
On the night of 29/30 June 1933 Landmann was involved in a manhunt in Braunschweig's working-class quarter designed to find people involved in the production and distribution of (illegal) Communist Party leaflets.[3] A shoot-out occurred and Landmann was shot dead. It was subsequently established that the fatal shot had been fired by "his own people"[4] - possibly a "plain clothes SS man".[1] Nevertheless, a Communist Party member called Alfred Staats later confessed to the killing.[2]
Spotting an opportunity, the state government under the leadership of Dietrich Klagges immediately blamed the killing of Landmann on "the communists". Landmann was quickly raised to heroic status, and received an elaborate state funeral in the cathedral on 4 July 1933.[2] On the day of the funeral the police chief, Friedrich Jeckeln, selected ten communist prisoners from the several hundred who had been rounded up after Landmann's killing and had them transported to a confiscated trades union building that the SS were planning to convert into a concentration camp in nearby Rieseberg (Helmstedt). The prisoners were already suffering from the effects of physical abuse, and after further torture, roughly an hour before midnight, the ten were shot dead on Jeckeln's orders, and in accordance with his proclaimed motto "ten for one".[5]
Although the Rieseberg Murders were widely publicised, they were only one part of a wider backlash that the authorities choreographed following the killing of Gerhard Landmann. Under the cover of what was presented as a police manhunt a brutal wave of arrests and persecutions was launched, which later came to be known as the "Landmann Wave" ("Landmann-Welle").[6] Several hundred "special court" trials ensued. In August 1933 the city authorities erected a memorial tablet dedicated to Gerhard Landmann.[7] In January 1934 the "House of the Friends of the People" ("Volksfreund-Haus"), a former regional head office and publishing building that the Nazis had confiscated from the SPD early in 1933, was rechristened as the Gerhard Landmann House,[8] although other sources indicate that it had by that time already been known less formally by that name since July of the previous year.[9] (It would revert to its pre-1933 name in 1945.)
References
Edith Raim (18 October 2013). Verbrechen an den politischen Gegnern bis 1933. Justiz zwischen Diktatur und Demokratie: Wiederaufbau und Ahndung von NS-Verbrechen in Westdeutschland 1945-1949. De Gruyter. p. 742. ISBN 978-3-486-73565-9.
Rauhreif. "Landmann, Gerhard". Metapedia - der alternativen Enzyklopädie vorrangig für Kultur, Philosophie, Wissenschaft, Politik und Geschichte. Missing or empty |url= (help)
Veit Veltzke (2009). Footnote 43. Für die Freiheit, gegen Napoleon: Ferdinand von Schill, Preussen und die deutsche Nation. Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar. p. 388. ISBN 978-3-412-20340-5.
"Der Kampf um die Straße". Der Kampf der Bilder - Braunschwieg im Spiegel der Fotografie, 1930-1933. Arbeitskreises Andere Geschichte e.V. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
"Ginkosteine 10/11 ... Rieseberg-Denkmal". Ulrich Schade l.A. Gedenkstätte für Opfer von Krieg und Gewaltherrschaft, Braunschweiger Friedhöfe e.V. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
"Gerhard Landmann". Prof. Henning Freiberg i.A. Vernetztes Gedächtnis. Stadt Braunschweig. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
"01. August 1933". Stadtchronik Braunschweig: Einträge für das Jahr 1933. Stadt Braunschweig. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
"18. Januar 1934". Stadtchronik Braunschweig: Einträge für das Jahr 1934. Stadt Braunschweig. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
Ulrich Kiehne (21 February 2014). "Eines großen Sozialdemokraten gedacht". Verlag Seesener Beobachter GmbH. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
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Braunschweig was a Nazi hot bed and central to the evolution of the SS and also its headwear.
The fact that such headwear was made there and its officer elite educated there is also of note.
Landmann is likely in this film somewhere. I think this film is from 1932, but one of you can tell me.
YouTube
This epoch in the story interests me for various reasons.
Last edited by Friedrich-Berthold; 01-02-2020 at 05:54 PM.
The latter image with the blood flag is, of course, from wartime, but this cult of the dead became a central part of the NSDAP, SA and SS
and emerged as a motor of its aggressiveness.
Last edited by Friedrich-Berthold; 01-02-2020 at 03:59 PM.
Steinbach was killed in political violence in the Saxon town of Chemnitz, which like Brauschweig, was a battlefield of paramilitary and class warfare prior to and even after the seizure of power.
Here is the caption to the image. Weimar Republic - Build up of Nazi power 1931
The Nazi propaganda photo shows SS members Edgar Steinbach (R) and Heinrich Gutsche, who were killed during street fighting, the so-called "Kampf für die Bewegung" (Fight for the Movement) in Chemnitz, June 1931. Photo: Berliner Verlag / Archive (Photo by Berliner Verlag/Archiv/picture alliance via Getty Images)
Last edited by Friedrich-Berthold; 01-03-2020 at 09:50 AM.
I own something not unlike this, but one of the 9 November 1923 martyrs who was enshrined in the Ehrentempel in Munich until he was not.
This cap of mine is from an officer in the Sta. 49 and maybe this cap saw Landmann since it is of the era?
This image has now been purloined so often it is sort of a joke.
Of course, Whammond made the picture, but I own the cap.
In any case, happy new year. During my year in repose, I managed to find some images of
merit and I share them here before I slink back into my hiding place.
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