Hermann Fegelein's SS General tunic at HH

[John Pic]

[John Pic]

[John Pic]

[Ludwig]

So, I am still wondering, where can I have a look at this excellent grouping? Is it up for sale? Where? When?
I mean, if I was a dealer and had a grouping like that, I would do anything to spread the word, that I had it. Come on! A link, please!

[John Pic]

[Ludwig]

Well spoken!

Last year an individual from Germany, personally known to me, presented the tunic of an SS-Leader in an article for "Internationales Militaria Magazin", together with the biography of this leader who had passed in October 2010.

He had presented this tunic to me independently in an email and told me how he got it from the veteran only shortly before he had passed. He was very proud and loved to show it off.

I only smiled: What this individual did not know at the time he showed me the tunic was that I had only been with the old officer veteran of the LSSAH at his home with my wife and son two months prior to his death.

And guess what? - NO TUNIC, no award docs, only a few badges and a couple of photos. When I asked for a uniform the vet only laughed about my question and told me how it was the first thing he threw away when crossing the Enns on May 8, 1945.

Bottom line: The collector colleague from Germany waited until the old chap died, so the oldtimer could not tell the real story anymore and then he young collector pulled out a put-together tunic which he presented in the Militaria Magazine! The uniform as such was a fake post war French made tunic, so the base material wasn't even real, beside the fact that the tunic had Heer shoulderboards without LAH cyphers!!!
I wouldn't be surprised that the tunic was sold to a naïve collector since then, on the basis of its publication in the militaria magazine.

A lot of twisted minds out there.

Buyers beware. Stay 100% original with a small collection of items and don't try to impress others with things you believe are original because a dealer tells you so.

You will never impress the guys who really know their stuff and have quality collections.

Never!

[A c h t u n g !]

You certainly keep trying to get me banned.. I'll bet I know who you are.

I know who you are.

[Johnny R]

Ludwig- It was/is on HH- this is a basic link to their site.

http://www.hermann-historica.de/db2_...talogeneu.html

[John Pic]

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[LRRPS]

I think Ludwig is asking for the Witt grouping, not Fegelein

[Ludwig]

Ludwig- It was/is on HH- this is a basic link to their site.

http://www.hermann-historica.de/db2_...talogeneu.html

Thanks, but I´m talking about Witt. Fegelein is already gone to the city dump!

[Ludwig]

I think Ludwig is asking for the Witt grouping, not Fegelein

Correctemondo, mate!

[judas]

If everything else fails - play the victim.

come on thorsten please show me some tunics ..i mean you and some others were are they made such a big deal (witch hunt) about me having to and when i pont you and others were to look i am told by one there not good anothe( what statemint joke that was ) . i am sure there are tunics even famous ones still in the waitng . but this ? well i can tell you right now the ink is as fresh as they come for a start. . now turinng on john

i think john is more saying the chances are slim with out seeing it . any way lets just say its real ok ! you and the others will not be buying it nor me if the asking price is were it will be , i know who brought gorings cap and you know how much that went for .

so be it the feglenein or witt

no wonder people dont show any more even when you try the dogs bite

look at the problims round the otto skorzeny group what a nightmare trying to work out the truth with that

[Thorsten B.]

Good point and advice!

I should now really make the test and drive 25 km tomorrow early afternoon to a family which were personal friends of Onkel Heinrich.

To my knowledge that household was never liberated nor ransacked but still is kinda conservative - in fact I expect the black uniform of Grandfather still being hidden in his closet, no kidding.

And it won´t be an EM version - thank you for reminding me of that!

I almost forgot about it...

[Panzer Rob]

come on thorsten please show me some tunics ..i mean you and some others were are they made such a big deal (witch hunt) about me having to and when i pont you and others were to look i am told by one there not good anothe( what statemint joke that was ) .

He might not have any to show. I don't, not SS anyway. I know quite a few SS collectors who don't collect uniforms. What's your hangup with tunics and why do you keep asking people to post them, especially when some of those people have already told you they don't own any? There is more to collecting SS than tunics, and just because someone might not own any currently does not mean they haven't in the past, aren't experienced with them, etc. It surely does not mean they can not contribute to a thread about uniforms.

Rob