ss camo cap

[Jolly Roger]

Hi,

I also have the chance to buy this one. Please let me know your opinions!

Thanks!

Ben

[kammo man]

One looker.
owen

[Felix]

From what I see it looks like a nice cap...

//Felix

[Rauchtarn]

I am often sceptish, but this one is it for me

[norge]

Seem good and nice to me.
Gisle

[Ludwig]

Almost all WSS camo caps for sale are fakes, IMO, but this one looks OK to me.
How much will you have to pay for it? And for the side cap?

[kammo man]

It's funny that the guys who do big posts on how real the pink jackets are never post on real items like this cap.
Maybe it's because they don't or haven't even held real items.

Owen

[Ludwig]

It's funny that the guys who do big posts on how real the pink jackets are never post on real items like this cap.
Maybe it's because they don't or haven't even held real items.

Owen

I think that you have a point there, Owen!
And all those WSS helmet covers...

[90th Light]

It's funny that the guys who do big posts on how real the pink jackets are never post on real items like this cap.
Maybe it's because they don't or haven't even held real items.

Owen

Another pointless post from Owen but what ever makes him happy.

I just hope he can handle real history when he sees or reads it,

Below is text about where a bit of the stuff came from, there is more to yet photograph but these images were handy;




"The Tribunale Building, Trieste April-May 1945"

For Colonel Donald and the New Zealanders who first arrived in Trieste, the Tribunale (Law Courts) building was occupied by belligerent SS officers who refused to surrender. To quote the Official History:

"At the Tribunale Donald could not persuade the garrison commander to surrender; he was an SS officer who was still humbugging undecidedly and was apparently under the influence of alcohol. Donald therefore arranged with the Yugoslav commander that tanks of C Squadron of 19 Regiment and C Squadron of the 20th would surround the building and give it a 20-minute pounding with their guns and Brownings. First the square was cleared of all troops and civilians, and at 7 p.m. 18 tanks at ranges of from 20 to 50 yards blew gaping holes in the walls and through the windows of the Tribunale. The Germans took shelter in the cellars and had few casualties, but the Yugoslavs entered the building and by morning had rounded up some 200."

In his book "In Peace and War", Lt Col Haddon Donald, commander of the 22 Battalion, recalls:

"....I decided to try on my own to persuade them to surrender. With no flag of truce available, I made do with my handkerchief, which was white and reasonably large... I knew enough Italian and German to be able to explain who I was... and we would give them safe conduct back to a British prisoner of war camp.....They stepped back inside and slammed the door."
"I was fast losing patience with the SS types in the Tribunale, but decided to have one more go at offering then safe conduct.... Terry McLean, my adjutant, could speak some German and by this time an Austrian civilian had joined us to act as an interpreter. The three of us, under a better constructed white flag marched once more across the Square to parley with the Germans."
"I gave the order to fire and keep firing until we had blown several entries into the building.... The tank boys were having a wonderful time. Never had they had such an easy target and nobody was shooting back at them."




Surprised to see Ludwig joining Owen on this one but may be a case of "birds of a feather often stick together",

Chris

p.s. nice original that started this thread but did Owen really need my confirmation on that point or was it just another failed attempt at what on his part ?

[biohazard69]

nice cap Ben

[90th Light]

The shelling of the Tribunale was one of the few incidents of possible hand to hand combat for the New Zealand troops on arrival at Trieste. A few photographs survive from the event but they are hard to find. Here are a couple.

The top image shows the Germans and SS negotiating. Seemingly, they were drunk which did not help the matter.

The lower image shows the New Zealand shermans lining up to do the job,

Chris

[Ludwig]

Chris,
If you are in some kind of war with Owen, I don´t know and I have no interest in joining that war.
I have nothing for or against him. Or you.
I don´t know who he is, and I don´t know who you are, I just thought (think) he had a point with that comment.
Do you disagree that most camo caps and helmet covers offered for sale today are crap?

[kammo man]

Bazaar post from Chris once again saying nothing about a real item.
Give it a rest and put more batteries into your flash light.

[90th Light]

More images,

top = Communist forces demanding the death of the Germans and SS

bottom = all is now quiet, some Germans are prisoners, many SS are dead at the hands of the red forces,

Chris

[90th Light]

Bazaar post from Chris once again saying nothing about a real item.
Give it a rest and put more batteries into your flash light.

Nothing Bazaar Owen,

you wanted the guys who debate the "Pink" smocks to now comment also on cammo cap threads. Some would be happy to let a sleeping dog sleep. However, your call is answered.

And just so we do not have to go through post after post about how the cammo cloth being strange when it is not or the sewing thread being all post war, I am backing up the items with the history.

Hopefully you can handle that.

Here is the newspaper article from the time about how the SS commander and all the other Germans/ SS in the building were drunk.

Another example of the danger of drink for you. However, also historically interesting,

Chris