SS crusher study

[BenVK]

1944, 12thSS inspection. Note even late in the war we see the cloth covered Crusher on the driver lower right.

Looks to have dark coloured piping as well !! great pic.

[jacquesf]

I also thought so at first, but look at the piping on the crown above the eagle, looks white. Jacques

Looks to have dark coloured piping as well !! great pic.

[BenVK]

Oh yeah, doesn't look white around the band though. Be nice to get a close up scan of that one.

[Lloyd I.]

Oh yeah, doesn't look white around the band though. Be nice to get a close up scan of that one.

I'll see what I can do for you on that.

[Lloyd I.]

Were you talking about this guy?

[Lloyd I.]

Another common type in abundance in photographs of W-SS on Kurt Sametreiter 3. Pz. Jag. Abt. LAH

[Lloyd I.]

An interesting photo showing a Crusher with cloth visor and early SS Panzer Crash helmet insignia.

Hans Reimling, 2. Pz. Rgt. LAH

In short, I too would welcome a serious study of SS crushers. Thanks.

[Lloyd I.]

Hans Reimling again, another angle. KIA March 7, 1943 near Walki am Ostfront. This image is after his February award of the Knights Cross, so mid war with cloth and early insignia.

[Lloyd I.]

Here is an example of the first type in the thread in that picture of the three, a classic true Crusher with soft leather visor bill with sewn insignia but with added chin cords. This appears to have been peculiar to W-SS more so than WH examples.

Hans Malkomes, 1. Pz. Rgt. LAH, KIA April 1945, Veszpram, Hungary

[Lloyd I.]

Another case in point in adding chin cords to crushers among the W-SS. J

Jacob Lobmeyer Jagd-Pzr.Abt.563

[Lloyd I.]

My last example of this preference in W-SS to add chin chords to crushers. There is a series of Arnold Jürgensen in this very Crusher before he added the chin cords to it.

Arnold Jürgensen, 12.SS.Pzr.Rgt, died from wounds received in battle near Büttgenbach

[Lloyd I.]

Alright sorry, last one I promise. Gerd Bremer in an early 38 pattern Crusher with added chin cords in disarray. Rundstedt inspecting 12th SS. I hope that I have added some insight or something valuable to the thread.

My own SS crusher has been thumbed up and down but remains in my collection waiting a matching Eagle and Skull. My next major purchase.

Any chance of pictures from the SS Crushers at SOS?

[Lloyd I.]

Just stumbled on this.....I know, so much for a promise. Early SS-VT era. M38 field gray style Crusher with an SS Sleeve Eagle instead of a cap eagle or cap insignia. Large but too small to be the panzer crash version of the eagle. Classic example of German variation.

[Lloyd I.]

Please note the resewn visor on this cap.

I'm posting it because it matches the bill on the Crusher worn in the Sametreiter photograph and appears to have been added rather crudely. This on a cap worn by Rudi Lehmann, commander of 2.SS "Das Reich".

[Lloyd I.]

Never say never, an Allgemeine Crusher at the Reich Party Day 1938