Post your foreign volunteers...

[Bob Clark]

Hello all. Excellent photos.....Comment on #218 : the one with the 2 handschar reading mein kampf is a modern photo of re-enactors...note the fez tassles...the good fortune of the bandenkampfabzeichen award on the uniform (not unheard of...but) and if the previous 2 issues don't convince...this mein kampf is a modern gloss paperback with isbn bar code on the book's backing. thanks for your attention.

[Oberbootsmann]

Nice thread, a little dusty though. How about that photo from my collection?
It shows two soldiers of Turkistan Legion with 1st pattern unit shield.

Regards, Matthias

[kerryboo]

Cossack.

[Roald Thamesen]

These are soldiers of the Russkaya Natsionalnaya Narodnaya Armiya (RNNA/ PHHA). A unit consisting of Soviet defectors who fought for the Germans that is very unique because they all fought with their ex-Red Army uniforms and equipments (with modified insignias).

Russian vols. "Sommer '42"-but not Hiwis. Note the cockades and the regulation uniforms...and of course, the assault badges. I suspect these are either Volksdeutsche or Brandenbergers- but I really don't know what to make of them. Any ideas?

[MarcoPennisi]

Hello all. Excellent photos.....Comment on #218 : the one with the 2 handschar reading mein kampf is a modern photo of re-enactors...note the fez tassles...the good fortune of the bandenkampfabzeichen award on the uniform (not unheard of...but) and if the previous 2 issues don't convince...this mein kampf is a modern gloss paperback with isbn bar code on the book's backing. thanks for your attention.

Right, two likely looking reenactors, from the Italian living history group Progetto900 AFAIK. But there's plenty of period pics showing the Bandenkamnpfabzeichen pinned to the uniform.

[kerryboo]

Eastern horseman, possibly Cossack,
Kerry.

[kerryboo]

Cossack with German NCO,
Kerry.

[kerryboo]

Unknown unit, but not German troops,
Kerry

[kerryboo]

Young Hiwi?
Kerry.

[Tom B]

Great photos ! Tom

[byterock]

Nice thread, a little dusty though. How about that photo from my collection?
It shows two soldiers of Turkistan Legion with 1st pattern unit shield.

Regards, Matthias

I wonder it that is a Eastern people ribbon in the button hole?

[kokstok]

First one was taken in 1942, second one in Juli 1944.

Here is the second one:

Is this in Zandvoort, netherlands??

[kokstok]

Recent pick up, Georgian volunteers. Album is from a German who served in this unit. Whole album 122 pics!!

[kokstok]

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[Zauberflöte]

Recent pick up, Georgian volunteers. Album is from a German who served in this unit. Whole album 122 pics!!

Excellent! Don't hesitate to show some more interesting uniform studies