Vets wearing their 57ers!!!

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After the war...

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This photo of Generalmajor Wilhelm Bleckwenn seems to be taken after the war. No eagle, no swastika on KC, DKiG or IAB...

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SS-Hauptscharführer Josef Lainer (first picture) and unknown RKT below

the unknown RKT below is Oberst Hans Hirn

Best Baska

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the unknown RKT below is Oberst Hans Hirn

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Thanks!!

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BW Hauptmann with nice ribbon bar

[selig33]

Hey everybody!

Were vets who lived on the east side of the Iron Curtain permitted to wear their awards? I imagine obviously without any swastikas or the like if they were allowed it. Hell, people in the east werent even allowed to refer to the town of Koenigsberg anymore, it had to be called Kaliningrad. Anyway, how about vets in the NVA?

Thanks

[Tom B]

Hey everybody!

Were vets who lived on the east side of the Iron Curtain permitted to wear their awards? I imagine obviously without any swastikas or the like if they were allowed it. Hell, people in the east werent even allowed to refer to the town of Koenigsberg anymore, it had to be called Kaliningrad. Anyway, how about vets in the NVA?

Thanks

No, it was absolutely forbidden. After the wall went down, several Knights Cross winners rushed to purchase 57 type & join the OdR. Tom

[selig33]

No, it was absolutely forbidden. After the wall went down, several Knights Cross winners rushed to purchase 57 type & join the OdR. Tom

Thats a shame really. I'm sure quite a few vets in the East served in the NVA or at least in politics. Only makes sense though sense Konigsberger Klopse was referred to as Revanchisten Klopse

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This photo of Generalmajor Wilhelm Bleckwenn seems to be taken after the war. No eagle, no swastika on KC, DKiG or IAB...

Lower part of the picture; without doubt it's a postwar photo of Bleckwenn.

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Austrian veteran Franz Schwaiger, 1972

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Hauptmann Egon Stoll-Berberich, 1958

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Oberst Josef Prentl in BW uniform

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Fregattenkapitän Günter Dobenecker

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keep going ! thank you

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Fregattenkapitän Günter Dobenecker

from the private Album of Dobenecker