Post Your 'LAH' Pieces.

[Mark Holden]

Lah Serving Dish

Hi All,

The LAH serving dish shown by Gary is one of 6 captured by the 1st Battalion the Worcestershire Regt in 1945. They were Regimental Property until sold about 8 years ago. I purchased 4 the other 2 were purchased separately and I have seen them appear on the UK market. They are maker marked KRUPP BERNDORF and dated '38.

regards

Mark

[fjcollector]

SS Dagger and Sword ..Documented and authenticated by Tom Wittman to the General, this General contolled all LSSAH in Russia Bastogne, and defending Berlin

nice piece of history

David

Hi David,
I would love to see some more pics of the SS general's overcoat.
Regards,
Paul

[markus]

Wonderful items guys! Luc wherever do you find such nice things ...I will see if I can dig up some photo's from a past life, in the meantime I was hoping my friend Markus might share a few things from his wonderful LAH collection...Best, JMD

Hi John,

I will try to take a couple of new photos today to post on ths thread.
In the meantime you go ahead and post some of your "SS-past".

Saludos,
Markus

[Johann Voss]

Absoulutly Beautiful Stuff!!!!

[TWP]

Brought back by Colonel Dr. Heinz von Hungen.

Bob Hritz

Hi Bob, very curious who Col. Heinz von Hungen was? Was he a US officer or German? If US how was he a US soldier with such a distinctly German name?
Thanks

[Panzer Rob]

Incredible find (and in my own state, too!)

It's finds like this that get my blood flowing. Untouched, salty, 100% original vet bring-backs just saturated with that "been there" look and feel. IMHO it doesn't get much better than this.

Awesome find!
Congrats.
Rob

Silver embroidered LAH officer's cufftitle (tunic removed) which was stuffed into the leather pouch with the LAH VT identity disc. Got this from recently deceased vet's daughter after a several month's long mind numbing haggling session.

[Donald Abenheim]

Heinz von Hungen

Hi Bob, very curious who Col. Heinz von Hungen was? Was he a US officer or German? If US how was he a US soldier with such a distinctly German name?
Thanks

Heinz von Hungen was a doctor in Modesto, California who died in the early 1990s. He was a medical officer in the US Army in Germany of the era 1946-1948. He had collected German militaria as a child in the 1930s, and had one of the larger collections here in Northern California. His great speciality was the uniforms of the German colonial troops, where he had real treasures. He lived through the black market period of the occupation of Germany as an US Army doctor, and told me of his experiences of same. I met him in the early-1970s and profited greatly from his genteel company and knowledge. He belonged to a group of old line collectors in the San Francisco area who had begun to collect imperial militaria before 1945, or shortly thereafter. The SS tunic in the possession of colleague Hritz I do recall while in the collection of Dr. von Hungen. I secured a wonderful earth brown SSTV side cap from him, which I then traded back to him at a later date. He and I traded material with great gusto and I sold him a white SS tunic for a Stabsarzt in the LAH as well as an open collar field grey uniform for the SS which I found devoid of badges in a flea market in Berlin in 1975....sic transit gloria mundi. I miss him greatly, and he was a person of great integrity and learning.

[stgeorge64]

Some further shoulder straps from my collection. This time a pair of field grey underlay EM straps piped in white, complete with LAH slip-on cyphers.

Regards Richard.

[stgeorge64]

Reverse sides.

Regards Richard.

[Simon_W]

A small contribution,

[Jens]

Documents to Herbert Meyer, LAH in 1933, Platoonleader Rgt Nordland, COY CO Rgt Danmark, BTN CO Rgt De Ruiter.

Some of the items include

DOGTAG 4/LAH
Doc SS-Hstuf
Totenkopfring
DKiG
Sonder abzeichen fur Niederkampfen von Panzerwagen
Nahkampfspange in silber
Verwundenabzeichen gold
Verwundenabzeichen silber
Orden der Krone Zvonimir III Stufe
HIAG goldene Verbandsnadel

[CurtD]

Mint cuff title in bullion.

[SJP]

A

[zinger]

I have only this

[stgeorge64]

LAH Slip-on Cypher.

Pink piped for Panzer with field grey underlay, this time an other ranks example complete with LAH slip-on cypher.

Regards Richard.