russian prisoner of war-issued german hbt work jacket

[corporalSteiner]

during the war the germans liked to mark everything/everyone in their system meticulously...some signs were, as we know, more ominously motivated than others.

there are some wartime german pics of russian PoWs, working at a u-boat base (which was never finished)...someone may be able to find them quickly here...
anyway, in these shots there included men working in jackets like this one.

interesting. the germans gave captured red army soldiers work clothes to wear as prisoners. this workwear includes items of 'obsolete' army clothing...such as oatmeal coloured fatigues. (such fatigues had been remade in reed green early in the war).

these items were marked with an SU = Soviet Union.

such off-white hbt items were - at the end stages of the war - used by volksturm, etc... the buttons on this one are made by A&S but non matt finish, suggesting they were canabalised from another jacket...it would be great if someone could dig out such pics as i refer too. i shall try and find them too...

[corporalSteiner]

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[corporalSteiner]

the wartime pics i refer to were taken in Bremen 1944 at the Valentin base.

[corporalSteiner]

found it

[corporalSteiner]

another shot of other workers at the same base, in more familiar uniforms



pics used for research purposes...

[NickG]

That's a great find! Russian POW used!

[djpool]

Very nice. I never thought that the Germans marked some POW clothing in that manner. The SU marking turns an otherwise boring uniform item into something special. Jim

[corporalSteiner]

thanks, guys. glad you found it interesting too ;^)

[Stepdale]

And in red for the Soviet Union as well, very nice.
Dale