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Unknown Kreisleiter:

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A very rare pic--Hans Frank wearing the uniform of a Reichsleiter wearing a white-top visor:

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The Schellenbaum for the NSDAP Generalgouvernement:

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The PL Gorget in wear:

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Another view:

[Jeff Clark]

Great images....thanks!

[Bob Clark]

ReichsSchatzmeister FX Schwarz and Gauleiter Greiser, various SA and SS Officials...a meeting of Gangsters to be sure.

[Michael Miller]

Regarding the Schwarz & Greiser photo, here are some notes regarding the occasion:

04.06.1942 -- Inspected the Litzmannstadt Ghetto (population approximately 100,000
at that time), together with a large group of officials which included Reichsleiter
Franz Xaver Schwarz and the Litzmannstadt Oberbürgermeister Werner Ventzki. The
inspection lasted approximately one hour, after which Greiser and his companions
expressed satisfaction with the level of organization and productivity they'd seen to
the Ghetto Chairman, Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski. The following contemporary
description of his visit, written the same day, was recorded in the official Ghetto
“Chronicle”:

"... Around ten o'clock ten private cars arrived bearing, among others, Gauleiter Greiser and minister [sic! Reichsleiter] Schwarz. The head of the Central Workshop Bureau, A. Jakubowicz, accompanied by the Chairman [Rumkowski] as leader of the ghetto, escorted the guests about.
The commission first visited the workshops on the right, that is the Balut Market side (of the ghetto) and, later, went to the other side to visit the Textile Department.
Traffic in the city was very limited, no children were to be seen in the streets, and neither were the weak and infirm old people who make for an indispensable part, to be encountered everywhere, of daily life in the ghetto. In a word, the ghetto seemed to be a labor camp where idle people are not seen on the street during the day.
The populace knows and understand that this is not an ordinary inspection but concerns something larger, more importantthe question of its very existence. The result of today's inspection is still unknown, but a positive impression could be read on the visitors' faces." (Source: Lucjan Dobroszycki [Editor], The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto, 1941-1944)

The teenaged ghetto resident Dawid Sierakowiak wrote of the visit in his diary as follows:

04.06.1942: “Fortunately the ‘Greiser’ cloud has passed. Greiser visited the ghetto, toured many workshops, and was reportedly very happy with our Arbeitsgebiet. The visit was over by the afternoon, and after it, bread was issued…”
06.06.1942: “Food supplies will get a bit better now because the ghetto reportedly has made quite a good impression on Greiser. Potatoes have been arriving continually since yesterday.” (Source: Alan Adelson & Robert Lapides, Eds., Lodz Ghetto: Inside a Community Under Siege)


Best wishes,
~ Mike Miller

[Jeff Clark]

Great information Mike, when is your book due out?

[luftwaffe blue]

Im not an SS collector as my signature shows so regarding the ghetto photo, was it normal for SS men to still wear a brown shirts under field grey tunics as the SS man in the photos shows? Sean

[stonemint]

Great posts, Mike & Bob.

Here is a pic of Ley & others in the einsatz u. dienst uniform. Of interest is the young Feldherrnhalle/SA men serving in the Volksturm.

[Bob Clark]

Great Info Mike! and also thanks Stonemint, and great late war photo of Dr. Ley...it was interesting to see as the war ground down to an end, the flamboyant dress of the Reichsleiters (and even Goering's gaudy garb) gave way to these very modest service field tunics. The Glory days of the "Golden Pheasants" had long since ended.
Bob

[stonemint]

Pic of Gauleiter Hoffmann at Bochum in 1944. He is wearing the rare closed-collar PL tunic, with two cufftitles which I cannot make out:

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Semi close-up. Does anyone know what cuff-titles he is wearing and/or have other pics of him wearing this uniform?

[Bob Clark]

Here's another of Hoffman with the closed collar and Gauleiter Tabs....I like the uniforms of the lower level officials of the NSDAP on the right of the photo....