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Thought I would post my SS relic collection. Everything is not relics as you see, some items (like the SS cloth insignia) is quite the opposite, in MINT condition. I joined this forum about 8 years ago when I was 12, so my collection intrest have gained and faded during the way and also the collection intrest have changed a bit. I started out when I was 12 collecting medals, then onto fieldgear and such and then as the SS is my greatest intrest I decided to go for collecting SS cloth when I was 15 or so. As I got ripped off on a few items (like one of my relic SS officersbuckles and the cap eagle) I got tierd of collecting and just went over to read about the SS (especially the swedish SS volounteers).
Since then I have regained my intresst in collecting and now when Im 20 I have gone over to items of relic condition besides reading about the Waffen-SS. This as I find them more appealing and also better for my economy as Im a poor law student.
Enjoy and comments apriciated!
The main shelf. Some SS pottery relics I bought from a forum member. Four SS EM belt buckles. Two of them are from the positions of the SS-TK division in Austria, the de-nazified one is from Estonia and the one in quite bad condition was a gift from another forum member, it was found at a KZ (thank you very much!).
The SS officersbuckle on the left is a waterfound (wasserfund) from souther germany, the SS officers buckle on the right is fake unfortenly, so is the cap eagle which I hope to replace with a nice relic in the future.
The buttons are 3 SS-VT scull buttons for the cap and a tuxedo button, all from the same forum member.
The dogtag is one of the SS-Pz-Erz-Abt dogtags which was found a few years ago in eastern germany.
The main piece in the collection is the really salty Böcker SS-Dagger which comes from Germany. Unfortenly the grip must be taped together since its broken in two, but it is my favorite piece with a lot of history.
The second shelf. My Dachau SS Fez, stripped as a lot of them are. Then a few signed photos from Swedish SS soldiers, the two photos are (top) Sten Eriksson, a volounteer in the Wiking division, then the Nordland (SS-Pz-Aufkl-Abt 11) before being transfered as SS-Kriegsberichter to SS-Standarte "Kurt Eggers". He participated in the battle of Berlin.
Below that is a signed photo from Elis Höglund (which I was given personaly from him) who fought in the Wiking division 1941-43 when being wounded. Then transfered to the Nordland division (SS-Pz-Aufkl-Abt 11) before going AWOL in the autumn of 1944. When he returned to Sweden he had lost all intrest in the nationalsocialist ideology.
The signed Waffen-SS pamflett is from the legendary swedish volounteer Erik Wallin, who joined the SS in 1943 and was placed in the SS-Pz-Aufkl-Abt 11 where he served as Zugführer in the third and fifth company as commander of a mortar zug. He participated in the battles in Estonia, the Kurland-pocket and finaly in the battle of Berlin where he was wounded. After the war he wrote a book about his service in the SS which is avaible in english as Twillight of the Gods, one of my favorite books.
The other book is another favorite in my collection, it once belonged to Gösta Borg, a swede who fought in the Winter War in Finland in 1939, then continued his career in the swedish army before going AWOL in 1941 to join the SS, returned to sweden the same year and participated in a officerscourse in Sweden, but as the left-wing press found out that a former SS-member was going to become a swedish officer he was denied his dream and instead joined the SS again. Was sent to Bad-Tölz for officerstraining and became a SS-Kriegsberichter in the Standarte "Kurt Eggers". Saw action at Narwa in 1944, Tali-Ihantala, then Narwa again, the Warszawa uprising, east prussia, the western front during the battle of the Bulge. As a Kriegsberichter he got the chance to meet promintent SS members like Sepp Dietrich. I love it since I have written something which I hope is to become a book in the near future about the Swedish officers (have written about 160 pages from archival material plus a lot of photos).
My SS cloth. The shoulderstraps in relic condition was found in the old positions of the SS-Gebrigs-Jäger-Division "Nord" and the trench-art box was found at a fleamarket in Berlin last summer by myself. They look quite good beside eachother if you ask me. On the side but not in the picture are two more signed photos from Swedish SS soldiers. Im quite happy to have singed photos from 6 of them since there only was about 200 swedish SS volounteers during the war.
Then the last shelf with my old medals. Some of them in relic condition. These were the items which got me hooked on militaria collecting back in the days.
The SS camo cap is "field made" (In other words: Sewn sometime probebly postwar from an original SS zeltbahn) but I know it was worn at the Narwa-battlefield, not in 1944 but in 2004 by a friend of mine who visited the old battlefields.
Hope you enjoyed the collection!
Thought I would post my SS relic collection. Everything is not relics as you see, some items (like the SS cloth insignia) is quite the opposite, in MINT condition. I joined this forum about 8 years ago when I was 12, so my collection intrest have gained and faded during the way and also the collection intrest have changed a bit. I started out when I was 12 collecting medals, then onto fieldgear and such and then as the SS is my greatest intrest I decided to go for collecting SS cloth when I was 15 or so. As I got ripped off on a few items (like one of my relic SS officersbuckles and the cap eagle) I got tierd of collecting and just went over to read about the SS (especially the swedish SS volounteers).
Since then I have regained my intresst in collecting and now when Im 20 I have gone over to items of relic condition besides reading about the Waffen-SS. This as I find them more appealing and also better for my economy as Im a poor law student.
Enjoy and comments apriciated!
The main shelf. Some SS pottery relics I bought from a forum member. Four SS EM belt buckles. Two of them are from the positions of the SS-TK division in Austria, the de-nazified one is from Estonia and the one in quite bad condition was a gift from another forum member, it was found at a KZ (thank you very much!).
The SS officersbuckle on the left is a waterfound (wasserfund) from souther germany, the SS officers buckle on the right is fake unfortenly, so is the cap eagle which I hope to replace with a nice relic in the future.
The buttons are 3 SS-VT scull buttons for the cap and a tuxedo button, all from the same forum member.
The dogtag is one of the SS-Pz-Erz-Abt dogtags which was found a few years ago in eastern germany.
The main piece in the collection is the really salty Böcker SS-Dagger which comes from Germany. Unfortenly the grip must be taped together since its broken in two, but it is my favorite piece with a lot of history.
The second shelf. My Dachau SS Fez, stripped as a lot of them are. Then a few signed photos from Swedish SS soldiers, the two photos are (top) Sten Eriksson, a volounteer in the Wiking division, then the Nordland (SS-Pz-Aufkl-Abt 11) before being transfered as SS-Kriegsberichter to SS-Standarte "Kurt Eggers". He participated in the battle of Berlin.
Below that is a signed photo from Elis Höglund (which I was given personaly from him) who fought in the Wiking division 1941-43 when being wounded. Then transfered to the Nordland division (SS-Pz-Aufkl-Abt 11) before going AWOL in the autumn of 1944. When he returned to Sweden he had lost all intrest in the nationalsocialist ideology.
The signed Waffen-SS pamflett is from the legendary swedish volounteer Erik Wallin, who joined the SS in 1943 and was placed in the SS-Pz-Aufkl-Abt 11 where he served as Zugführer in the third and fifth company as commander of a mortar zug. He participated in the battles in Estonia, the Kurland-pocket and finaly in the battle of Berlin where he was wounded. After the war he wrote a book about his service in the SS which is avaible in english as Twillight of the Gods, one of my favorite books.
The other book is another favorite in my collection, it once belonged to Gösta Borg, a swede who fought in the Winter War in Finland in 1939, then continued his career in the swedish army before going AWOL in 1941 to join the SS, returned to sweden the same year and participated in a officerscourse in Sweden, but as the left-wing press found out that a former SS-member was going to become a swedish officer he was denied his dream and instead joined the SS again. Was sent to Bad-Tölz for officerstraining and became a SS-Kriegsberichter in the Standarte "Kurt Eggers". Saw action at Narwa in 1944, Tali-Ihantala, then Narwa again, the Warszawa uprising, east prussia, the western front during the battle of the Bulge. As a Kriegsberichter he got the chance to meet promintent SS members like Sepp Dietrich. I love it since I have written something which I hope is to become a book in the near future about the Swedish officers (have written about 160 pages from archival material plus a lot of photos).
My SS cloth. The shoulderstraps in relic condition was found in the old positions of the SS-Gebrigs-Jäger-Division "Nord" and the trench-art box was found at a fleamarket in Berlin last summer by myself. They look quite good beside eachother if you ask me. On the side but not in the picture are two more signed photos from Swedish SS soldiers. Im quite happy to have singed photos from 6 of them since there only was about 200 swedish SS volounteers during the war.
Then the last shelf with my old medals. Some of them in relic condition. These were the items which got me hooked on militaria collecting back in the days.
The SS camo cap is "field made" (In other words: Sewn sometime probebly postwar from an original SS zeltbahn) but I know it was worn at the Narwa-battlefield, not in 1944 but in 2004 by a friend of mine who visited the old battlefields.
Hope you enjoyed the collection!
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