Hello,
Since I have been writing a book about the swedish SS officers I have gone through several photos of them. Let me tell the story about one of the officers, Gunnar Eklöf. He was quite disliked and unpopulear amongst the other swedes, but also by the swedish authorities. During his service in the SS he went on leave to sweden several times, one time right after his officerscourse he had a brand new officersuniform sewn by a tailor in Stockholm, but this is about his first permission to Sweden:
This happend in 1942 when he was still a enlisted man, and it seams as he loved to show off, so he went home in uniform (This to a neutral country) but I belive he pimped his uniform to look even "cooler" than he was. From the photos which exists from his leave he is seen wearing a black EM schirmmütze, a standard feldgrau greatcoat, but that is the strange part: On the greatcoat he wears the standard SS sleeve eagle and shoulderstraps, but also a cufftitle (Der Führer), totenkopf-collartabs and a party-type armband (red, white and swaz). I find it quite strange with the combination of Der Führer-cuff (from Das Reich division) and collartabs from the TK-Division. Is there any other possible explenation to this besides my theory that he pimped his uniform?
Since I have been writing a book about the swedish SS officers I have gone through several photos of them. Let me tell the story about one of the officers, Gunnar Eklöf. He was quite disliked and unpopulear amongst the other swedes, but also by the swedish authorities. During his service in the SS he went on leave to sweden several times, one time right after his officerscourse he had a brand new officersuniform sewn by a tailor in Stockholm, but this is about his first permission to Sweden:
This happend in 1942 when he was still a enlisted man, and it seams as he loved to show off, so he went home in uniform (This to a neutral country) but I belive he pimped his uniform to look even "cooler" than he was. From the photos which exists from his leave he is seen wearing a black EM schirmmütze, a standard feldgrau greatcoat, but that is the strange part: On the greatcoat he wears the standard SS sleeve eagle and shoulderstraps, but also a cufftitle (Der Führer), totenkopf-collartabs and a party-type armband (red, white and swaz). I find it quite strange with the combination of Der Führer-cuff (from Das Reich division) and collartabs from the TK-Division. Is there any other possible explenation to this besides my theory that he pimped his uniform?
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