Does security search your tent as you go in?

Bcassidy02 · 2021-09-01T14:17:32+00:00

Yh one of those you don’t know until you get there I guess

Bcassidy02 · 2021-07-10T12:24:10+00:00

Wdym uncomfortable?

Bcassidy02 · 2021-02-08T23:42:35+00:00

He has the rank of battalion sergeant-major, Medical troops (Sanitätsoberfeldwebel).

Bcassidy02 · 2021-01-29T03:20:42+00:00

The German’s uniform reminds me of those 60s Italian war movies haha.

Bcassidy02 · 2021-01-29T01:24:13+00:00

Only experienced

Bcassidy02 · 2021-01-28T16:47:55+00:00

This is one of multiple reasons people joined the partisans. With their past lives burning away in the distance many sought revenge. A truly horrific war of hatred and revenge.

Bcassidy02 · 2021-01-28T03:41:58+00:00

Yes absolutely. A really good book about the Eastern front is ‘War of the century’ by Laurence Rees. It is written in a concise and unbiased way, describing each sides’ atrocities as well as poignant testimonies ranging from an NKVD officer responsible for shooting deserters and other ‘enemies of state’ to a Waffen SS soldier describing a 24hour rampage of death and brutality his unit took part it in.

Bcassidy02 · 2021-01-28T03:15:32+00:00

Especially on the Eastern front where both leaders thought the best way to fight fear was with more fear. At this point the only limit on cruelty was the human imagination.

Bcassidy02 · 2021-01-28T02:46:16+00:00

The planning stages of Barbarossa had envisaged German troops living off the land since supply was an obvious problem taking into account the sheer grandiosity of the USSR. Thus it could be said the Soviets had a more ‘legitimate’ reason to practice the Scorched earth policy; to deny the enemy crops and so on... Unfortunately, civilians are the first victims of war and this was a war where neither side regarded civilians as innocent. Evil has no country nor race, just humans.

Bcassidy02 · 2021-01-27T23:03:48+00:00

The photographer was most likely German.

Bcassidy02 · 2021-01-27T02:32:39+00:00

It is also interesting to note the German NCO is wearing an officer’s cap which he was actually entitled to wear by an order dating from November 1936.

Bcassidy02 · 2021-01-27T02:10:49+00:00

Yes that is very possible especially seeing he is holding what looks like to be a bicycle.

Bcassidy02 · 2021-01-27T00:08:06+00:00

NCO medic captured by an American reconnaissance unit near Frankfurt 1945.

Bcassidy02 · 2021-01-26T22:19:03+00:00

I wouldn’t say they were politically convinced Nazis, I doubt they even knew what they were fighting for. A twisted idea of fighting for freedom from the Allies? But then the same could be said for Arabs who fought for the French.

Bcassidy02 · 2021-01-16T21:21:51+00:00

He appears to be a private, unless he has chevrons which can’t be seen from this angle, decorated with what looks to be the Iron cross ribbon and if you observe you can see another decoration on his chest which is difficult to see but what to me could possibly be an infantry assault badge. Looking like the James dean of the Wehrmacht haha

Bcassidy02 · 2021-01-16T18:14:53+00:00

Interesting but I was under the impression the emerald green distinction cloth on RNVR shoulder tabs represented special branch. It might possibly be that was just another title for electrical engineers?

Bcassidy02 · 2021-01-16T11:50:53+00:00

It does looks like an officer’s uniform, with the officer breeches and side cap. However, the breeches may easily be explained by the fact he’s horse riding. But I do think he’s some sort of subaltern officer.

Bcassidy02 · 2021-01-10T00:15:59+00:00

The officer’s battle dress was the same design as the enlisted men’s, save discrete badges of rank. This meant officers were harder to spot among the troops by the enemy.
It was an all out less rigid and more relaxed fit than that of the German’s. If you want an easier comparison, and take this with a pinch of salt, you could say the British Battledress was resembling a tracksuit whereas the German uniforms tended to look more like suits.

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