Post your favorite SS or SS related item

[Glenn McInnes]

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Post your favorite SS or SS related item

Awesome material everyone! Bob you have some great uniforms!!! Here is my humble contribution, a nice standard untouched EM/NCO visor, I think they are much harder to find than a standard officers visor.

[Mark C. Yerger]

The Combat worn Officer's Crusher of the Hero August Dieckmann.

First headgear I've seen belonging to an SS Swords winner. His biography in my "Wiking" German Cross in Gold holder manuscript is rather long !!

Cover of Dieckmann's German Cross in Gold recommendation signed by Felix Steiner.

[NickG]

My favorite little SS display (because of my Dutch heritage). The pennant came from the house of the Dutch officer depicted, an NSB family! (KIA Leningrad front)

[Mark Edward C]

ss camo

My humble grouping....

Mark

[John C]

Great items!!!

[Raymond]

Wow, those are some amazing SS items . My new dream is to be adopted by Bob Hritz. That is a collection where word don't do it justice .
I only have a few SS pieces but my favorite was given to me by my neighbor. Her aunt was friends with RK holder Georg von Charpantier. It's a letter to her aunt , who was in the signal corps, saying he received the Knights Cross from the Führer.
Mark, I picked up your newest book and was estatic to see von Charpantier mentioned. Can't wait to read the book completely.

[Raymond]

The translation is:
My dear Anneliese!

Today only a short notice that I received the Knights Cross from the Führer on Dec 29.

I am very proud and happy and know that you also will be pleased about it.

Many sincere greetings,

Your Hanns

Front of the letter. I blocked out her last name for privacy.

[Mark C. Yerger]

I never think of what I work with to write (documents and photos) as militaria but this is of possible interest. Document sent to the surviving family in 1944 for an officer killed in Russia serving with the Polizei Division. It was done well after the fact, being signed in August 1944 when the division was in Greece. By that time the 3<SUP>rd</SUP> regiment was no longer a divisional component and its commander long ago transferred, but the regimental title is from the period when the man was killed (On October 15, 1942, the titles of the then 3 infantry regiments changed from SS-Polizei-Schützen-Regimenter to SS-Polizei-Infanterie-Regimenter).

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It is signed by Swords to the Knight’s Cross winner Helmut Dörner, who in August 1944 was commanding SS-Panzer-Grenadier-Regiment 8 of the Polizei Division. He had the rank and regimental command status to acknowledge the death of an officer serving with the division to the next-of-kin. The man was a graduate of the 7<SUP>th</SUP> Wartime Cadet Class at Junkerschule Bad Tölz (commissioned on June 21, 1942) and serving as a Zugführer (platoon leader) when killed.
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Document was a gift to me from the senior archivist of the Military History Archive in Prague as they considered such items of non-archive interest and used them (along with SS newspapers, etc) to start the small portable stoves that heated individual offices. I bought newspapers for them to burn and left with everything I was allowed to. In the case of these next-of-kin documents, those for officers were signed by a regimental commander. Those for NCOs were signed by a battalion commander and enlisted men’s by a company commander.

The 2nd document to an NCO is hand done as were all I had for NCOs and EMs, the typed Dörner signed one being the only officer KIA document I had. When the NCO was killed on September 23, 1943, the regimental title was SS-Polizei-Grenadier-Regiment 1, while the document shows it's final title of SS-Panzer-Grenadier-Regiment 7 (then current when the document was made). The NCO was killed serving with Kampfgruppe "Reifflin," a component of the SS-Polizei Division Kampfgruppe. It is signed by Roll of Honor Clasp holder Günther Ortmann. In this case Ortmann was the man's battalion commander when the NCO was killed and was still holding the same command when he signed the document.

Apologies for the history lesson.

[Mark C. Yerger]

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[Panzer Rob]

I simply write about the men and units, would enjoy seeing what is best/favorite among the things I'll never own that survived. Can be a hat, flag, insignia, photos, etc.

Great idea for a thread, Mark.

Here's one of mine, a cased 1st pattern Blood Order to SS-Obersturmführer Otto Ertl.

Ertl joined Bund Oberland in 1919 with whom he participated in the 8/9 November 1923 putsch; joined the SA in 1927 and served in SA-Standarte ‘Leibstandarte München,’ joined the SS in 1929 (SS number 4,564) and served in the 1.SS-Standarte "Julius Schreck" in Munich. Ertl was a recipient of the SS-Totenkopfring, served with the LSSAH in the invasions of Poland and France, SS-HA VoMi from 1942 to 1944, and by 1945 was serving at KL-Flossenbürg.

The first two photos show Ertl with this very Blood Order in wear at the 1937 Reichspartitag (he was the standard bearer for the 1.SS-Standarte from 1935 - 1938) and the third photo is taken from an August 1936 issue of FM-Zeitschrift and shows Ertl a year earlier, in 1936, again with this very Blood Order in wear.

Rob

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