SS officer in Polizei uniform?

[NickG]

This color image shows Obersturmfuhrer Hans Herman Junge. He was in the LAH (and KIA in that unit)...
So definitely not a Polizei SS Division member...but look at his uniform
Polizei brown collar??? with green edge piping...???
but it has a low button count (not a Polizei Rock) and no green edge piping along the front either...
so just the collar looks to be Polizei pattern...really weird...

Is it an original color image I wonder? (or modern day colorized with errors?)
He had no affiliation with Polizei...
Something you would expect to see perhaps with the 4th "Polizei Div"
The comparison image credit : Oakleaf!

[Graham G]

I've seen this pic before, and have often wondered the same.

[Ian Hulley]

He was the husband of Traudl Junge, Hitler's secretary.

Just a poorly colourised photo in my opinion.

Ian

[chrischa]

Just a poorly colourised photo in my opinion.

Agreed. Certainly not actual colour of the uniform.

Chris.

[Daniel.S]

Just a poorly colourised photo in my opinion.

Ian

You probably just ruined one of Nicks "restorations" now

[46IR]

http://24.media.tumblr.com/9cd4bb00c...lv09o1_400.jpg

another colour image and it looks to have dark brown collar

[Robert H]

Custom as so many others.
Trachten,Loden who loves it.
See Klingenbergs custom Gucci style tunic.

[stonemint]

I don't believe the pic posted by Nick was colorized--it is an actual color pic taken by Walter Frentz.

Nick, I agree, the collar is brown, but I don't see the green piping--I think that is just a shadow.

[NickG]

Indeed the image was not messed with, otherwise I would not have posted it...
If you blow it up (on an iPad) you can tell its genuine...Not colorized,
but because its so odd looking I still had some doubts initially...until I blew it up.
Nice additional image of this officer! I guess he liked brown faced collars....

You probably just ruined one of Nicks "restorations" now

I guess that photographic proof gives me the artistic freedom to create something similar now!
just kidding! I do enjoy restoring fixer-uppers...working on 5 tunics right now...
(LW, Heer, Feldgendarmerie,SchuPo)
Some with the professional help of Virginia. The people "in the know" will definitely understand
who I am talking about!

[istra63]

Junge was one of Hitlers orderlies
for a while also.

[istra63]

In the Beaver book where this photo also
resides, it is stated that the original colour was
the usual dark green. The colour being distorted
from "early film".

[John Pic]

In the Beaver book where this photo also
resides, it is stated that the original colour was
the usual dark green. The colour being distorted
from "early film".

Assumption not based on eyewitness testimony...probably because we are too accustomed to "textbook" norm.

[istra63]

Thanks John Pic
Thought they must have done
their homework to make such
a statement.
Speculation is not a good road
to walk down.

[John Pic]

Quite common in the hobby and understandably with all the touched up period photos and such it is safer to assume the norm than hope for the odd.