Estonian SS Legion Museum at Parnu

[FrenchVolunteer]

Hi,

an original copy of "SS-Mann Und Blutfrage", very nice !

Leo do you have any original SS-Urituli issues ?

See You

Vince

[Fred Fokkelman]

I really love the setup of the mannequins...

[TonyS]

Here you can find Leo's posters as well: http://www.rindeleht.ee/foorum/phpBB...php?f=14&t=245

Thanks for the link. Some very nice posters there.

[Etienne B.]

Tere Leo,

Amazing collection.Visited your country,Narwa and the kinderheimhöhe in 2006 for the placing of a memorialstone.Very kind people

[Kriuks]

Some great stuff. SD looks good to my poor eyes but oddly, the tabs and boards don't match on the lower ranks tunic.

Unfortunately, the SS pin under the glass is a fake.

Hi,

Here is answer from Leo:

Hi from uncle Leo, he is not enough clever with computers and cant post fotos to forum himself, so he asked me to do it and also to send next letter: Sad to hear tabs and boards on my tunic of SD-Unterführer are not match. What do you think about those sets at photos I add here on estn. SD-men tunics, are those match?

About SS-pin under glass - Many persons sayd it's fake and probably they right but before I'm agree to believe terrible truth I want to know by who it's made, when, where and why? It's from cupfer, very nice work.

With regards

uncle Leo

[Beersheba4thLH]

Are these flags the originals? I have seen wartime and modern photographs of them in several publications and thought they were in the possession of the Estonian Waffen SS veterans (Association?).

[Kriuks]

Hi,

In this picture we can see only one flag (the photo is taken by me and the mirror on the wall is creating just an illusion of another flag) and as I know, this flag is made during WWII period.

[NickG]

Wow very nice image. These are SCHUMA members in SD service...hence the Schuma collar tabs, Foreign volunteers shoulderstraps worn on SD pattern tunics.
Surprisingly they wear SS sleeve eagles instead of Schuma sleeve ovals...those probably came factory sewn on the tunics...
The cadre are German or Volksdeutschen and wear standard SD uniform insignia (like SD collar rank tabs worn by 2 officers) to include SD sleeve diamonds.
Schuma men attached to SD service did not wear such raute insignia...Not full members, supporting- auxiliary units...
Note also Heer pattern side cap with SS insignia. There was a joint Schuma-SD training school but according to A.Munoz ( Green Army books )
was in the Ukraine... called Bad Rabka SD Polizei Schule....Perhaps related? Were Baltic men sent there also I wonder...assuming these are Estonians pictured...
Estonians in direct SD service did wear all appropriate SD insignia of course...not these Schuma pattern collar tabs and ost truppen Shoulderboards.
A very interesting mix of insignia. Any more info available on these men and location as depicted?

[wisches]

Looks to be a SUPERB museum .... why can't we have just one like that over here ?

Cheers for sharing Tony.

Ian

we have mate!
imperial war museum! you;d be suprised whats behind closed doors!
wisches