Interesting photo

[-Peters-]

I came across this photo, and thought you guys might like to see it, since the helmets there are pretty neat. Look at the officer´s awards and the German soldier using a Russian machine gun on the left.

[thatswar1944]

very cool pic cool helmet's - camo covers-battered awards and the german's pefered the ppsh41 to there own weapons...thanks for showing it here
wayne

[Mooyman]

[anmarlodz]

the guy of the left has also helmet cover made from russian camo.

[foy1944]

other picture

hi guys ,i knew i saw this officer before ! i found his other picture wich you can see in almost every eastern-front book .
best regards ,jo.

[-Peters-]

That's very cool, i don't think i've ever seen him before, be he does look very characteristic and he sure looks like a talented leader. Do you by any chance know the name of the officer? I'm not a badge/award collector, so i've never seen that badge/award pointed out, what is it for?

[ValhallaMilitaria]

That's very cool, i don't think i've ever seen him before, be he does look very characteristic and he sure looks like a talented leader. Do you by any chance know the name of the officer? I'm not a badge/award collector, so i've never seen that badge/award pointed out, what is it for?

Infantry combat badge, broken at the right hand side...very cool photo indeed. The PPSH is also not a machine gun but a Submachine gun.

[Mike Davis]

For those interested, you can read about this officer and the circumstances in which these photos were taken here - most highly recommended:

http://www.leapinghorseman.com/prodd...75107676&cat=5

[Fred S]

Another well known pic of oberleutnant hanging the PPSH
I'd go for a fieldmade helmet cover with hungarian camo

[-Peters-]

If you look at the helmet cover he's wearing on the picture Fred posted, you can see it's the exact same cover as the guy on the left on the picture i posted in the beginning. Maybe the soldier was KIA and the officer inherited his gear, now he didn't need his cover and PPSH anymore.

[Fred S]

If you look at the helmet cover he's wearing on the picture Fred posted, you can see it's the exact same cover as the guy on the left on the picture i posted in the beginning. Maybe the soldier was KIA and the officer inherited his gear, now he didn't need his cover and PPSH anymore.

More simple: it's the same man. You can't see his SB on the pics you posted, that's it.

[gadaru_kanaru]

very cool pic cool helmet's - camo covers-battered awards and the german's pefered the ppsh41 to there own weapons...thanks for showing it here
wayne

I read in one of the Leaping Horseman books (probably Island of Fire ) that many Heer officers purposely broke their badges like that to show oppostion to the war or some aspect of the handling of the war.
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The particular officer w/the broken IAB has been 100% positively ID'd and he either died or disappeared during Russian captivity. There were even wedding photos of him and his bride in the above mentioned book.

[Gergo B.]

Another well known pic of oberleutnant hanging the PPSH
I'd go for a fieldmade helmet cover with hungarian camo

Definitely not hungarian camo.

[Fred S]

Definitely not hungarian camo.

You may certainly know better the subject than me, but It remembers me of the hungarian zelt camo (large brown spots on light green, with a few spots of white). Original pic Vs modern pic

[Gergo B.]

You may certainly know better the subject than me, but It remembers me of the hungarian zelt camo (large brown spots on light green, with a few spots of white). Original pic Vs modern pic

IMO the helmet cover is italian camo.

Greetings,
Gergő