Can you guess who these guys are?

[Eric Queen]

If you are the person whom I have already shown this photo to, please do not guess.

Thanks

Eric

[SMP]

Foreigners...?

[Ben]

Slovaks, Hungarians, Croats, Hungarians, Italian or even Spanish?

[Ardennes]

hmmm

I'd guess Croats or post WW2 Germans ?

it doesn't appear that the swastikas are present under the eagles?

[jimuk]

Eric-
Guessing here but the moustaches makes them look like Cretans! All the best

JimUK

[Yannis]

Hi Eric,

we forgot to mention Bulgarians?

All the best
Yannis

[John Hodgin]

Hi Yannis,

I vote that they are from your nation.

[Glenn McInnes]

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[Yannis]

Hi John

Well, they do look like they could be! But I would find that hard to believe.
There were Greek units under German occupation assuming the role of security and police but paratroopers??

All the best
Yannis

[Eric Queen]

Here is a portrait photo of the guy in the green smock.

[Glenn McInnes]

Spanish Volunteers!! Glenn

[Yannis]

Eric

Isn't that a first model bulgarian para badge?

All the best
Yannis

[Eric Queen]

That's right Yannis. These guys were among the 400 Bulgarian paratroopers who were trained at Fallschirmschule III ( Braunschweig )

Eric

[Yannis]

Thanks Eric,

actually, if it weren't for your post sometime ago about this badge I wouldn't have known
The faces seemed to be "from the neighborhood".

All the best
Yannis

[Theodor]

I recognized the picture, but kept silence, you do not know hw difficult this is to me!!!
BTW, seems the closer picture of the man with the green smock is either latewar, or early postwar. I think so, because he seems to have an "antifascist" medal /the round medal next to the Bravery cross looks to me like the commie medal with orange-black stip ribbon and Uncle Stalin pictured/. Also the emblem of the Bulgarian Air force, the wings on the left seems to have lost the crowned royal cypher in the middle.
Here is a picture that I have on my site /sorry, don't have a better version, it's "taken" from some site of the Military ministry if remember right /