The fate of most uniforms

[naxos]

Hardy

[fjcollector]

i dont get it...

[jayhawkhenry]

The owners used them until they were worn out.

[naxos]

Entirely stripped of any insignia after the war.

[Darwin M]

Not all off them I think, after the war some ships carry a lot of them they went to hollywood for the movies. (Is a story I heard)

Cheers Darwin M

[JG 51]

i dont get it...

It equals a lot of postwar applied insignia

[tazpants]

Top pic shows German POWs with a british officer. Are those outfits German ?

[Daniele C]

What about The fate of a lot of HEER Uniforms stripped and then reworked as waffen SS jackets by some members of the waf ?

[Johnny R]

Top pic shows German POWs with a british officer. Are those outfits German ?

It looks like they are cleaning up war damage, probably shortly after the War 1946/47-+ etc. being supervised by a British Soldier. Notice the nice flyer's boots in the first picture.

The first man is wearing a fliegerbluse and issue boots, cannot tell on the pants, he second man is wearing knobelbechers and an issue hat, the jacket looks like a beat up civil frock and in black and white who knows what the pants are.

[Fred Green]

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What about The fate of a lot of HEER Uniforms stripped and then reworked as waffen SS jackets by some members of the waf ?

Hey, I only did that once and nobody was the wiser!!!

Fred Green

[McCulloh]

German POWs arriving in Boston were issued nice new US clothing. Some officers and NCOs retained their jackets-minus insignia. Most US soldiers traded cigarettes and cash for the medals. the uniforms were heaped up on open ground in Charlestown and burned by the POWs. The (MIT draftee) Corporal who oversaw this project-which kept him employed for 9 months in 1945, lives down the street from me. He kept a few caps as souviners. He estimated that they burned @ 25,000 uniforms in all. A few of his friends took uniforms as souviners as did local kids.
In 1947 a film company went to germany to get uniforms for a movie about a german POW who is used by the Americans to get information about the Rhein crossing. They bought @ 300 uniforms in all. Not one SS uniform was sold to the company. The uniforms etc. were in a warehouse until the early 1980s when they were sold off-although rumor is that some are still ins torage somewhere.
I am old enough to remember the great World War One overcoat sell-off of 1984/5 when @ 1000+ original German 1916 overcoats were sold off at $ 5 each. Bill Shea had a few at $80 each in 1990.
Asd an aside, german and Austrian POWs in WW1 and early (up to 1943) were issued with (sometimes) redyed U.S. Civil War sack coats-complete with union army eagle brass buttons and "POW" stitched on the backs. My Grandmother employed @ 10 Germans from the Africa Korps on her farm in Northern Va.. They worked very hard and enjoyed the cigarettes and food.
My Grandmother's neighbors however had "issues" with their foreman being a Black man and complained. A letter was even written in the local paper and she was "spoken to" at her DAR chapter meeting. She stood her ground, refusing to "promote a Nazi" over an American.
Anyway, she said "her POWs" all wore reissued union frock coats from the Spanish-American war and we still have a few buttons and a POW armband.

[airborne_steve]

German POWs arriving in Boston were issued nice new US clothing. Some officers and NCOs retained their jackets-minus insignia. Most US soldiers traded cigarettes and cash for the medals. the uniforms were heaped up on open ground in Charlestown and burned by the POWs. The (MIT draftee) Corporal who oversaw this project-which kept him employed for 9 months in 1945, lives down the street from me. He kept a few caps as souviners. He estimated that they burned @ 25,000 uniforms in all. A few of his friends took uniforms as souviners as did local kids.
In 1947 a film company went to germany to get uniforms for a movie about a german POW who is used by the Americans to get information about the Rhein crossing. They bought @ 300 uniforms in all. Not one SS uniform was sold to the company. The uniforms etc. were in a warehouse until the early 1980s when they were sold off-although rumor is that some are still ins torage somewhere.
I am old enough to remember the great World War One overcoat sell-off of 1984/5 when @ 1000+ original German 1916 overcoats were sold off at $ 5 each. Bill Shea had a few at $80 each in 1990.
Asd an aside, german and Austrian POWs in WW1 and early (up to 1943) were issued with (sometimes) redyed U.S. Civil War sack coats-complete with union army eagle brass buttons and "POW" stitched on the backs. My Grandmother employed @ 10 Germans from the Africa Korps on her farm in Northern Va.. They worked very hard and enjoyed the cigarettes and food.
My Grandmother's neighbors however had "issues" with their foreman being a Black man and complained. A letter was even written in the local paper and she was "spoken to" at her DAR chapter meeting. She stood her ground, refusing to "promote a Nazi" over an American.
Anyway, she said "her POWs" all wore reissued union frock coats from the Spanish-American war and we still have a few buttons and a POW armband.

I ditto this statment!

My grandfather who fought in the war and was later stationed at Rhein Main Air Base and flew in the Berlin airlift told me about Germans trading and selling everything so they could to survive.

During his time in Europe, He was offered many hats and uniforms and antiques in trade for food, coffee and of course cigarettes. May of the uniforms were walk out uniforms that hung in a closets and the families simply sold them.

Also, many GIs mostly non-infantry liberated stocks of material much of it went home in duffel bags. As most soldiers do when their service is over they just throw it away or turn them in to work clothes.

Steve

[pzrwest]

On my friend Edgar's(uboot vet) release document there is a stamp in blue ink stateing that he had so long think it was 30 days after being released to get a civilian suit or take his uniform to the bergermeister for redyeing.

[DonC]

It always kills me when I read posts like this - my uncle was stationed in Bad Tölz and Munich in 1946-48 at the former Jünkerschule. He said they had helmets in the basement stacked ceiling high behind a locked gate and nobody paid them any attention - the only things he sent home was china for my grandmother... And it's really ugly china.

Don

[Johnny R]

It always kills me when I read posts like this - my uncle was stationed in Bad Tölz and Munich in 1946-48 at the former Jünkerschule. He said they had helmets in the basement stacked ceiling high behind a locked gate and nobody paid them any attention - the only things he sent home was china for my grandmother... And it's really ugly china.

Don

or Eva's panties in a too small size for midwestern girls. IMO Mucho Gun show generated negationism.

Looking at these were pictures, they could be from the future depending on who wins the next US election.