Soldaten im Einsatz

dergutekamerad:

Brussels, Belgium, Leon Degrelle at the funeral of his brother, Eduard.

demons:

I can never wholly escape the doubt about whether the past ought best be forgotten, since it ended in such a singular catastrophe - above all, for the people some thought to be inferior, but also for ourselves. Is there a more convincing proof of the falseness of all our former truths?

There is another nagging doubt: Am I giving up my own self in the course of concealing my true identity as a volunteer of the Waffen-SS? Am I leaving behind the person I was (together with the dead and the outlaws) and trying to reach the other side, the land of the righteous? Am I already wandering about in a moral No-Man’s Land?

Black Edelweiss: A Memoir of Combat and Conscience, Johann Voss

Fallschirmjager:
Thank you for posting this Lux, this book is up there with Guy Sajer in my opinion as far as German bios from the German perspective.

An SS-Sturmann of 1.SS-Division ‘Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler’ on his wedding day.
He is is an NCO cadet as can be whitnessed by his shoulder-board, notice the piece of tresse on the end of his shoulder-boards, also can be seen is BeVo cuff-title.

zwickelundkrieg:

SS-Sturmbannführer Fritz Witt and SS-Obersturmbannführer Max Wünsche of German 12th SS Panzer Division ‘Hitlerjugend’ at the Ardenne Abbey, Caen, France, Jun 1944

Brigadeführer Hermann Fegelein commander of the 1. & 2.SS-Kavallerie Regiments in the rare M41 SS-Sommer bluse, sitting in a Feiseler Fi 156 Storch reconnaissance/liaison aircraft, August, 1941.

Fallschirmjager:

Judging by the weapons, helmets and uniforms I’d say these fellows belonged to 41 or earlier 3.SS-Division “Totenkopf.”

(via zwickelundkrieg)

A Finnish-SS Battalion SS-Scharführer who has been warded the Iron Cross 2nd Class, enjoying some down time in his position.

SS-Scharführer Ahti Pio, was one of the many Finns decorated with the Iron Cross 2nd Class.
He was one of those 400, who served in various divisional units of 5.SS-Division “Wiking” in 1941. He was later transferred to the Finnish Battalion “Nordost” along with the Panzerjäger Zug.

Finnisches Freiwilligen-Bataillon Panzerjägers Sato Kaisla and artillery officer Heikki Mansala.
These men who were part of the initial 400 Finnish volunteers in 5th SS Panzer Division “Wiking”, then when SS Freiwilligen-Battalion Nordost was formed, they were moved to the new Finnish volunteer Battalion. Notice Heikki Mansala has his traditional Finnish “Puukko” knives hanging from his belt.

Finnish SS-Untersturmführers Kaarlo Kuutti, Ola Olin and Tauno Pajunen in spring 1942. Kuutti fell at Kagalnitzkaja on 2.2.1943. Olin and Pajunen survived the war.