Police photo album - my best one so far

[Simon O.]

Wonderful stuff!

Thanks for sharing these...


Thought you might like to know that this photo shows the remains of a Fieseler Fi 156 Storch...

http://d2134644.u48.surftown.nu/copp...php?pos=-21824


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And what's unusual is that it's taken at Bjørnfjell (Narvik). I wonder if this is the fi.156 that crashed by the border on the 4th May 1940?

[Tor]

Thanks! I got an email on this plane just after your posting refering to a Storch. And Simon - I think you are right. This was the same suggestion that came from that visitor.

[Douglas Jr.]

Tor,

That's a nice album! Congratulations!
And thanks for take your time to scan its pictures to share them with us.

Greetings,

Douglas

[inimicus]

Great photos! Looks like that SS visor has coloured piping. Doesnt look white to me.

nor me. it's in the same light as the light colored (white?) pol cap eagles but lacks the same reflectance you'd expect.

stellar pix; thanks heaps.

[JOHN JONES]

Hello Tor,
Wonderful record of a mans service, he certainly liked to take his
photos, and be well posed when others took shots. Seems almost an Idylic
war, till Larrys unit breakdown shows how it got nasty at the end.
A good record of uniform / insignia / equipment wear, both on and off duty.

Of note: Pic 46, shows Fritx Wilds grave from another angle, must have be
a place to take in while in the area, as a fair few shots exist.

Pic 228: Seems to show new uniform issue ( M1940 )

Pic 351: shows 1st burials for the unit.

Pic 356: I note Russian front boots are now in evidence.

Pic 358: SS Pattern Parka in wear.

Many thanks for taking the trouble to scan and post.

John.

[corporalSteiner]

i very much echo other members' gratitude at your effort to share these incredible pics. thanks for allowing historians such a rare viewing platform.

[Tor]

Thank you for your comments. All information regarding the photos will be added to the album.

[Gran Sasso]

Hallo!

Thank you very much for posting this very nice pictures. A lot of these pictures show my hometown Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Here the Pol.Geb.Jäg.RGT. 18 where formed. There are pictures from the Schneeferner Haus near the Zugspitze, the highest mountain of Germany.

Kind regards

Hannes

Here are some "then & now" impressions of our hometown, taken by Hannes:

1) The "Zugspitzbahnhof" (lower train station for the train running to the 2.964m high "Zugspitze"):

[Gran Sasso]

1) The "Zugspitzbahnhof" then:

[Gran Sasso]

2) On the banks of the "Partnach"-river, in the background the peak of the "Kramer", 1.943m above sea-level.

[Gran Sasso]

2) then:

[Gran Sasso]

3) The little village "Hammersbach", 5km south of Garmisch-Partenkrichen, on the foot of the mighty "Zugspitze":

[Gran Sasso]

3) then - a timeless szene:

[Gran Sasso]

4) The chapel of the same village - here is the start to climb the "Zugspitze":

[Gran Sasso]

4) then - he is wearing the right boots for the climb already....