SS Netherland Amersfoort - swearing the oath

[Mogdala]

Was able to obtain the following pictures - where they taken inside camp Amersfoort or somewhere else in Amersfoort?

thanks in advance

[Mogdala]

2. close up - photos have been taken in 1942 (01.05.42)

[Eric JB]

Hi Christian,

For sure not taken in Kamp Amersfoort,"Polizeiliches Durchgangslager Amersfoort" und "Erweitertes Polizeigefängnis" itself.

Here some information and photos.

http://www.kampamersfoort.nl/zhi.html go to : historie.

yours friendly

Eric-Jan

[IchHattEinenKameraden]

Those two photos are beautiful, thank you for sharing!

[Mogdala]

Hi Christian,

For sure not taken in Kamp Amersfoort,"Polizeiliches Durchgangslager Amersfoort" und "Erweitertes Polizeigefängnis" itself.

Here some information and photos.

http://www.kampamersfoort.nl/zhi.html go to : historie.

yours friendly

Eric-Jan

thanks for your info

[Mogdala]

this one is from the same group - great insignia details

[HERMSDORF]

GREAT

[Rednas]

Isn't this at Don Bosco? Don Bosco was a confiscated monastery in Apeldoorn used as a trainingground for the SS. The SS Kraftfahrer Ersatz Abteilung 1 was trained overthere.

Altough the first photo shows the men taking there oath over a artillery piece, which makes a artillery unit more possible?

[Mogdala]

Hhm maybe?

[whscharfschütze]

Hi,

This is the former Bereden wapens kazerne also known as the willem III kazerne in the centre of Amersfoort, it is demolisched in 1978. The unit is a artillerie ersatz abteilung. I have a big collection of this unit including albums, loos pictures, ekm,documents, feldpost etc. I live in one of the buildings next to the former kazerne built in the same time as the base.

so not a dutch freiwillige or landstorm unit, only a dutch based unit nothingand also nothing to do with the concentration camp

Check your pm.

Best regards,

karel

[whscharfschütze]

oh and rednas, don bosco is not in apeldoorn, it is in Leusden.

[Mogdala]

Many thanks

[nicoh]

Hallo

@ Mogdala
The troops shown are of the SS-Polizei-Artillerie Ersatz Abteilung, wich was based at the WIllem III Barracks.

This artillery replacemnet bataillon was at first the replacemnet unit for the Artillerie Regiment of the SS-PolizeiDivision. LAter it became the replacemnet unit for non-motorised artillery units,and in may 1943 it was renamed V./SS-ArtillerieAusbildungs und Ersatz Regiment.

It left Amersfoort eventually in Okotber/November 1944 when it went to Komotau.

@WHscharfschütze:
Could you perhaps post some of these photos in the future?

best regards

Nico