SS field jacket and pants find

[Deezel]

The lady that I purchased this from said her uncle brought it back from the battle of the bulge and it was an ss officers. Ibelieve it is a 1943 swamp camo pattern reversable to snow. All buttons are accounted for except for the one wooden suspender peg. What do you think




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[Graham G]

Good sumpf set, no relation to the SS

[Fred Fokkelman]

Nice Wehrmacht Sumpf set... wrong section.

[Deezel]

Thanks for the replies. Does this picture not show a SS wearing the field jacket?
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[Tigerace007]

Im no expert but the photo show Otto Skorzeny wearing what appears to be a Heer issue splinter pattern reversible smock.

As always there were exceptions to the rule, I have seen photos of troops waffen ss wearing heer kit, even a photo of a Fallschirmjager in Waffen ss smock.

A very nice find you have there btw.


Regards,

Stuart

[Fred Fokkelman]

Thanks for the replies. Does this picture not show a SS wearing the field jacket?
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Correct, but the set is not an Waffen-SS garment.

[W.Unland]

If a Waffen SS officer is shown wearing a garment, does that not make it a garment known to have been used by the Waffen SS and consequently a Waffen SS garment ...................by definition? Just askin.

[ironcross13]

it is a Heer set, not SS.

like said some SS would use Heer stuff now and again .

[Deezel]

I read it was used by luftwaffe as well. But I guess toward the end of the war a lot of stuff was used by many different groups

[ironcross13]

it may of been used by SS but with no way way of proving it can't take people's word for it.

I hope you did not pay more for it because it was used by a SS officer?

[NickG]

Here is a thread about W-SS using non SS camo garments which did happen on occasion...

http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...ht=ss+splinter

but that does not make it an SS garment! but it is a nice Heer parka set with proper RBNr marking. Congrats!
No doubt an embellished story that it was taken from as an SS officer. (That Skorzeny picture example btw is a splinter Heer pattern...)

[ironcross13]

yeah it is also a very nice Heer set well done on the find.
get a nice mannequin to display it