SS Division Hunyadi

[ACE]

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Do you think this "soldbuch" from SS Division Hunyadi is real or fake?

Thanks - ACE

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[Doc]

Hi ACE,

It's original. No question.
Doc

[JUNGCO]

I'd make sure the photo security stamps overlape onto the Soldbuch.

Jeff

[MisterX]

I dont like it. I think all entrys are post war.

[Doc]

Not any problem with this soldbuch. It is a "textbook" and original. Here is an other one.
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[AJ]

Real or not?

Hi

I can't say if the Hunyadi Soldbuch's shown here are real. But they look like the ones which have floating the market for the last years.

What is the story behind all the Hunyadi Soldbuch ?

What looks strange to me, is the fact that they all have very poor stamps inside. Allmost inpossible to read. Not one with a clear stamp?
They all seem to have been writen by the same person?

All I can say is, that all the Hunyadi Soldbuchs don't look like the real WSS Soldbuch's I have seen. Even not the late war ones

AJ

[F L Clemens]

The typical reasons for SBs or WPs to come from the same unit and have the same look are:

- a late-war unit is composed of draftees who have been hurredly conscripted and they all have the same level of experience (basically nil) so they share the same look and feel.
- late-war units are more likely to have been involved in situations where the low-level headquarters are overrun and the admin documents captured intact without destruction. I have read a number of complaints about this by higher units in records. The documents were sometimes hidden in farmhouses and found postwar. One famous case was the headquarters of II.Fallschirm-Korps.
- late-war units which are seen as highly collectible are targets for archives raiders and the sudden appearance of a number of them can be evidence of a successful raid.

Although I don't find these Hunyadi SBs to be attractive, I think they are real.