A while back there was a thread on a Stahlhelm with a large Totenkopf painted on the front. I just came across a book on Weimar today that had this picture, dated 2 Mai 1919.
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Here's a closeup of the "shoot me first" guy. -
-wait 'till Chief inspector Robin L. sees this.
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German Pirates !!!!
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Tom.
I've seen that picture before (it's also in one of my books), but thanks very much for taking the trouble to post it.
The TK on the helmet I have is of the Brunswick type - not that that makes much difference as the FK used all sorts of TKs.
Thanks again.
Regards,
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Photographer Hofmann?
Guys;
Isn't the photographer in the hard-to-read inscription "H. Hofmann"? I'm far from a Third Reich kind of guy, but wasn't that hitler's photographer?
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Hofmann?
Opps! Looks like it might be "Hormann". It's my damn bionic eyes!
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Bob.
That IS a Heinrich Hoffmann photo.
Hoffmann took lots of Freikorps etc. photos during the 20s and wrote titles on them all with that characteristic 'white paint'.
His archive was still available via his son Robert until the 1990s, but it now resides in the Munich City Library. There are some fantastic pictures in it. Copies are also available via the Imperial War Museum in London and, I think, the National Archives in Washington DC.
Eva Braun was Hoffmann's assistant, until Hitler 'stole her away'.......
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