My greatuncle was there too. my cousin was able to safely collect the uniform before the shkijet got their hands on it in 99 during the time they evicted Albanians out of North-Mitrovica. Interesting side note: His brother (my grandfather) was hiding Jews from Croatia, and my great uncle knew it but he couldn't care less as Albanians had no problem with the Jewish community. There is even an old picture somewhere where my great-uncle(in uniform), my grandpa and the jewish guy were in my great-gramps backyard enjoying a cup of tea together.
@@TheOneWh0Knocks oh wow, my great grandfather and yours must have known eachother. My family hails from Drenas and frequently came to Mitrovica. We actually live now in Mitro
@@sylvesterpatrick4680 Yes it was Bosnian SS division Handchar...it was bad joke they was terrible fighter just killing people in the villiage..and inocent people they even fail fight agains partisans mostly in fight they run ...so in was cancelled ...
He is not say anything you can t look up yourself. He dont mention you actual can see the unit name and je also dont seem to know that some of the uniforms have fake parts on them because the seller tried to impress the us soldier that bought it.
I inherited my great granddads LSSAH Sturmbannfuhrer uniform, also got his kit etc, and his brothers Allgemeine SS uniform, they both had kids who were in the HJ but they threw their uniforms away. my great grandad got the iron cross first and 2nd class, war merit ( ribbon and breast medal), wound badge in silver. Similar with his brother but his brother was a SS-Oberscharfuhrer and has the honor dagger, still got their helmets and hats aswell.
Just like to point out that the SS Panzergrenadier Regiments of Westland, Nordland & Germania were all part of the 5th SS Panzer "Wiking" Division. Also the "Wiking" Division recruited from Germany, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Holland & Belgium. The Divisions symbol was the rounded swastika or sunwheel. A few things in this were a little vague tbh.
Nordland Standarte eventually became the core unit of the 11th Freiwilligen Dv "Nordland". The second tunic shown actually has their symbol on the collar tab, a three spoked Hakenkreuz.
@@jonrumple1464 the circular Hakenkruez is Irish-Aryan in origin and you also see it in Estonia or Finland a lot too on Ancient ruins and sites, probably Phoenician.
To my knowledge it wasn't just the occupied territories. I also saw volunteers from other countries(blue division from Spain, division Russland from USSR, I even saw some union jacks, so even some volunteers from UK).
But harder to find uniforms from the blue division since it was redrawn from service because Franco was under presure from England to take a clear stand of his "neutrality".
@@henrikhilskov I am not sure of your point but I imagine Allied soldiers had more important things to be doing in October 1944 than scrounging for uniforms of their enemies which would have been difficult to come by as they were being worn by those shooting at them.
@@jean6872 Well youtube is not good for debate. hard to keep track of thread. I also wrote at the END of the war I did NOT wrote summer 44. It was first in may 45 and forward the trade with medals, uniforms ect. started. So there were NO spanish uniforms on the market... So they are more seldom... That is my point. And if your english is so bad that you don't understand it. Please keep it for yourself and do not border me...
Vladimir Petrovsk Why.....Hugo Boss designed the high ranking SS uniform and over coats. They were outstanding. Beautiful. Why are the Germans so triggered?
Jacob, it will be difficult to make Finland a part of Scandinavia, when the language is so different. And what the fuck, just like Finland was a part of Scandinavia when Sweden had it? That's like saying India was a part of the U.K....
The size of the tunics really amaze me. I've seen many of these in person and am always astounded as to how small they are. I could not possibly fit into one. Neither could my teenage son. They almost look like children's clothes. I've also seen items worn by Civil War soldiers and they were small too. We would look like giants in comparison.
Not at all. The Average Danish height is 181 cm, whilst the American is 169 cm. Comparing to Denmark of course, 86% is moscular fit (buff would be an american term, or just know as well build) whilst the American is laying at 34%. (Dansk idræts institut). You would be suprised how a man can fit in that, I (myself) is just around 182 cm, and I'm on the upper level of well build when it comes to muscles, and I fint in mine quite well. (Reenactment)
Carl Klein : The same thing comes to mind when I'd viewed WWII US womens' uniforms. They were so petite. Even very fit young women are too big to fit into these uniforms. I guess Wonder Bread has done its job.
Jacob, I find that hard to believe. I'm from Norway, and I've been to Denmark several times. 80+% are not muscular/strong/fit/buff... Anyways, all of this was in WWII, and that was truly a different time, especially when it comes to nutrition/food and such. And not that many of the SS/Wehrmacht soldiers were Danish, only some thousands. The entire Wehrmacht (SS not included) have had around 18 million men fighting in it, and then a few thousands ain't that much...
Ya Know, I often wondered that myself. We have a Confederate Civil War Museum here in Missouri. And all of the Gray Uniforms looked liked they could fit a 12 year old kid or something. The curator told us people were smaller at that time, because they didn't have excess to all nutrients we have today. Many of them had to hunt and hand-pick their own food. Sometimes they would go a week on bread and water, and some days they would go without anything to eat. Today its available to us in mass, without doing all of the hard work.
No, Soviets had millions of Russians and they were used as cattle to go over mine fields and die. If Russians had same amount of soldiers as Germans, Germans would’ve defeated the Russians as the Germans/Austrians did in world war 1! If 10 million brainless zombies come at you Without weapons, eventually they’ll win, too!
Mr Strange the Soviets were locked in a life & death battle in Kursk , . The Russians had a defensive perimeter 50 miles deep . The Nazis were grinding their way through it , but on the other side of the continent the D-Day landings were taking place . Hitler stripped sorely needed tanks & troops to ship them west to face the new threat . Also , the Germans had lost the advantage of rapid movements to the Russians . Who were receiving delivery of 10,000 studebaker trucks which transported troop , supplies & Pulled artillery . While the Germans were becoming more & more dependent on horses & footware
@Panzer883 thats 100% correct...but it seems some people only want to see what the germans did and they think the Allies were just little angles that never murdered anyone.
notes: first the waffen ss didnt wear the marksmanship cord. second the collar (and sleeve) trim isnt called tress...its pronounced tres-seh. the marks on the right side of the collar are runes...not "ruins" (they arent bombed out buildings), and the "ober schutz" is pronounced "ober schut-ze" . small things but you would think a museum would get it right.
Not many weared the marksmanship for other than perade. It was a wellknow facts that marksman seldom was taken pow alive. Even the us army tend to murder them.
@@mady383 If the person in the video cant even pronounce the simple e on the end, I doupt he ll be able to learn how to pronounce the ü correctly, even long time german learners have a hard time accurately pronouncing it.
The Finnish volunteers of the Waffen SS were part of the Nordland regiment, not a division, and they used ordinary Waffen SS collar tabs. Check the facts
A brigade can become a division. The 3-armed rounded swastika of the Flemish volonteers stands for integration in the Reich. I think though it is not authenthic for collar tabs (kragenspiegel)
obershutze isnt technically another rank its still technically shutze they just have the pip for more than five years of service showing that he wasn't a promising soldier (in their eyes)
@ZeroG84 There were Finnish officers in the Waffen SS, many of them returned to Finland during Finlands peace treaty with the USSR, and a small amount remained in the Waffen SS. Larry Alan Thorne who served in the Finnish army left Finland after the cease fire with the USSR and continued in service as a Untersturmfuhrer in the Waffen SS until the end of ww2, then came to America and joined U.S. special forces and served in and was killed during the vietnam war.
It is fitting to begin with a tale of rape. With Tarquin the Proud’s tyrannical reign as the last Roman monarch, Romans were eager to explore a new form of government: the republic. The ‘Rape of Lucretia’ was a popular tale which detailed the downfall of Tarquinius: Roman soldiers away at war decided to return and surprise their wives. Only Lucretia, wife to Collatinus, had been loyal and chaste while her husband was gone, but Tarquin’s son, Sextus, returned and raped her. She told her husband what had happened, then took her own life. The incident sparked a revolt led by Lucius Junius Brutus and Collatinus, resulting in Tarquin’s expulsion from Rome. Tarquin and Lucretia, above by Peter Paul Rubens, was painted between 1609 and 1612. One of the Ruben’s finest early works, Friedrich the Great bought it in 1765 for his collection and it hung in his palace at Sans Souci. The Rape of Lucretia vanished in the Soviet Union after being stolen by the Red Army in 1945. It was cut from its frame, folded and rolled up, stored improperly and badly damaged. It ended up in a communist officer’s home and was later sold for pennies. Enter the Russian Mafia. In 2003, a Russian named Vladimir Logvinenko tried to sell it to a German gallery, but he was reported to Russian authorities who then acquired the painting. Now restored, it hangs in the Pushkin State Museum. Following their custom, they refuse to return it to its rightful owner: Germany. German military leaders charged with war crimes at Nürnberg were charged with “destruction et pillage d’oeuvres d’art” based specifically on the violation of Article 56 of the Hague Convention of 1907 regarding war booty. Ironically, the Hague convention got its inspiration from disputes which arose from the Napoleonic Wars regarding Napoleon’s notorious plundering. Article 56 was seen as expressing the prohibition of any unilateral seizure of cultural property and putting an explicit limit to the prior practice of unlimited looting. Sadly, the biggest theft of all, the most massive art heist of all times, the looting and plundering of German treasures has drawn scant, if any, media attention. While there was no general authorization of the Allied Control Council to carry off German cultural property as a means of reparation or compensation, the Soviets openly ignored international law and regarded the vast amount of treasure and artwork pilfered from Germany as ‘compensation.’ Carrying off cultural property was only to be legally permitted for the purpose of “guarding against wartime dangers,” but this was the disingenuous excuse used by the Soviet Union for its massive looting operations. As early as 1942, the Soviet Union, art lovers that they were, had begun a deliberate plan of collecting art from Germany. In 1945, as the Red Army advanced into Germany, special “trophy brigades” went out to collect the slated works in German museums and ship them back to Moscow. From 1945 to 1949, more than two and a half million works of art were carried off from Germany, mostly to the metropolises of the Soviet Union where many of them are in secret storage even today. A Russians list of 40,000 missing items they blame Germany for taking include the famous Amber Room of the Catherine Palace, but the list is vague and unspecific. The Germans, on the other hand, have greatly detailed accounts and carefully documented evidence of their lost treasures and they also insist that all the Russian art had already been returned. In reality, by the time of the Cold War, British and Americans had already returned most of the artworks under their jurisdiction to their respective countries of origin, including Russia: Over 500,000 objects were repatriated to the Soviet Union (a fact seldom mentioned by the Russians)! The German position has usually been that international law and the Hague Convention of 1907 on the rules of land warfare require that the works be returned unconditionally. 7,314 paintings belonging to the German bureau that administered the former Hohenzollern estates in Prussia were catalogued in 1939. Today, over 3,000 are still missing. This doesn’t even touch upon the sculpture, porcelain, musical instruments, clocks, silver, furniture, prints and drawings and millions of rare books plundered by Allies and the Red Army alike. Using foresight during the Allied bombing of Germany, museum personal bravely attempted to safeguard the masterpieces in their charge by shifting collections from various depots in salt mines, churches, cellars and estates to save the objects from destruction. As Berlin was falling, art treasures from the old Prussian castles were hidden in safe places in the countryside. Almost all of the 3,000 missing paintings not destroyed by bombing were taken by the Russians. From the time they conquered Potsdam in April 1945, where many collections had ended up, until 1946, everything that could be moved was taken to Moscow. The Russians are unrepentant and arrogant about their thievery and seem to go down this brazen path with the tacit approval of civilized nations. The Pushkin Museum’s 1995 show in Moscow ludicrously called “Twice Saved,” unveiled 63 paintings ranging from the late 14th to the late 19th century from German and Hungarian private and museum collections. A month later, St. Petersburg’s Hermitage Museum opened “Hidden Treasures Revealed,” an exhibition of 74 mostly Impressionist and post-Impressionist paintings by artists such as Degas, Renoir, Gauguin and van Gogh, stolen almost entirely from private German collections.
Who is Joan Crawford, and why is wife hanger bad? These aren’t even gabardine and aren’t OFFICER tunics. They’re not really worth much. GABARDINE OFFICER SS TUNICS ARE WORTH A LOT. And better looking.
The Waffen SS were considered a criminal organisation after the trials. They were not ordinary troops since the SS itself was an organ of the Nazi Party and was thus essentially connected. Members of the Waffen SS were denied pensions afforded to both the Heer and Kriegsmarine, except for veterans after 1943 who were conscripted. But Waffen SS members before 1943 were volunteers therefore they were responsible.
@Morten101 I've seen the error of my ways . I had only delt in repro uniforms and some Heer stuff. I saw my first orginal SS uniform the other day it was 12k.
0:37 "Well, Ron, what we have here today is a collection of SS uniforms and if our viewers order within the next 30 minutes, they get an extra uniform FREE!"
But wait, if you really want to glorify the cowardly SS achievements, call in the next ten minutes and we'll send you an Einsatsgrupen uniform absolutely free!
Most likely later in the war those two stripes because of great losses also signify that they were an officer of that unit say Sergeant equals Lieutenant Lieutenant equals major major equals Colonel more of a word-of-mouth thing plus the two stripes signifying that he is now an officer though without obvious visual rank also referred to as “piston stripes”!
I love reading some of the comments made by people who think because they watched saving private ryan and band of brother it makes them war experts on WW2 and German forces :D takes a little more reading research etc to call yourself an expert. and a lot just seem to have done little a NO research
Hear hear. Everyone is a Internet genius these days.If I only had a nickel for every stupid or incorrect fact that I have read on the web , I could retire.One of the most common is that Hugo Boss designed the ss tunics.Not true, they manufactured them but so did dozens of firms but people state it like fact. Sometimes I think the web does more to dumb down people than to educate.
I just love stupid people. Himmeler made an alliance with the great muffin in Bagdad and he helped Himmeler to create an ss division full of muslims. It was called the ss handschar division and by the way was fighting us army in france 1944...
There are a few good books, ie, "for europe" about the french anti communist volunteers. In a very large, very spread out organization, i don't doubt some recruiters got pushy, ie, instances of union army recruiters hitting people with batons if they didn't "volunteer" to fight in Lincolns army, but that wasn't the norm. Overwhelmingly, it was anti communism. There is a sad irony in that as Stalin stood as master of Europe and poised to be master of Asia thanks to the communist loving FDR, some returning frenchmen were killed as "traitors" , going to their death singing the "marsaillaise " (sp), shot by communist terrorists who we armed singing the "internationale".
There is an amazing documentry about the Belgian (Vlaanderen, which is the northern part) volunteers. ua-cam.com/video/yIidMxKCS4U/v-deo.html I'm Dutch myself but so far i couldn't find much about it on the web, however there are 2 books i can recommand which are called: Feldgrauw and Viking. What i can tell you is that there was nobody from western occupied country's forced to fight for the SS (Wehrmacht only recruited Germans), they were mislead however. For example many of them didn't even know what it was exactly that they signed for because they couldn't read German very well, they just wanted to fight communism or have some sort of adventure. Another example is that part of the Dutch and Belgian volunteers were promised to fight in units that consisted only of people that spoke their language/were from the same country, soldiers as well as leaders. When they were send to the Eastern front, they found out that reality was much different. There was also a group of people that joined the SS simply because at home they were poor and didn't have much opportunities to build a carreer, by joining the SS they were promised a good future for them and their family. What's also very interesting to me is that it seems that most of these men, other than anti-communist, were not interested in politics all too much. Ofcourse there were some hardcore nazi's but i think they were a minority. I'm not a historian but i did lots and lots of research on this matter so maybe i can answer some of the quiestions that you have.
smart guy to wear gloves, i got 5 ss tunics, 55 helmets, 15 ss, i am always buying ww2 n ww1 militaria , german usa etc, i got raf flyers jacket. italian n russian helmets ,
@11thSSNordlandPzG Whatever crimes the allies committed by were NOT sanctioned by the authorities. The much more numerous crimes of the Waffen SS WERE sanctioned by the authorities. The Waffen SS were bred to be brutal and ruthless.
3:03 hes wrong the tunic is not "engineers" the shoulder boards that are black are for "Pioniers".......but overall nice tunics!!!!!!.......i like how on the M36 tunic it had a beVo sleeve eagle with a RzM stlye cuff title......it goes to show people that the germans were very good "recyclers" in tunics....what ever they had to issue you is what you got....very nice tunics!!!!!!..at least they are at the right place that they will be appreciated and not thrown around in someones attic.
I like these 50cents wire hangers.. I live near the wwII gothic line and once we found a farm full of german stuff.. uniform parts helmets and panzerfaust (one)
My great-grandfather must’ve have one of these uniforms, fought with the SS Skanderbeg Division
My greatuncle was there too. my cousin was able to safely collect the uniform before the shkijet got their hands on it in 99 during the time they evicted Albanians out of North-Mitrovica.
Interesting side note: His brother (my grandfather) was hiding Jews from Croatia, and my great uncle knew it but he couldn't care less as Albanians had no problem with the Jewish community. There is even an old picture somewhere where my great-uncle(in uniform), my grandpa and the jewish guy were in my great-gramps backyard enjoying a cup of tea together.
Wow
@@TheOneWh0Knocks oh wow, my great grandfather and yours must have known eachother. My family hails from Drenas and frequently came to Mitrovica. We actually live now in Mitro
Muslim Albanian Division?
@@sylvesterpatrick4680 Yes it was Bosnian SS division Handchar...it was bad joke they was terrible fighter just killing people in the villiage..and inocent people they even fail fight agains partisans mostly in fight they run ...so in was cancelled ...
Its just wonderful this history hasent been destroyed and Tom is so knowledgeable I am very impressed. Thank you
He is not say anything you can t look up yourself. He dont mention you actual can see the unit name and je also dont seem to know that some of the uniforms have fake parts on them because the seller tried to impress the us soldier that bought it.
@@henrikhilskov Ah but who has the time these days
I inherited my great granddads LSSAH Sturmbannfuhrer uniform, also got his kit etc, and his brothers Allgemeine SS uniform, they both had kids who were in the HJ but they threw their uniforms away. my great grandad got the iron cross first and 2nd class, war merit ( ribbon and breast medal), wound badge in silver. Similar with his brother but his brother was a SS-Oberscharfuhrer and has the honor dagger, still got their helmets and hats aswell.
The SS was the most multi cultural army in the world
Just like to point out that the SS Panzergrenadier Regiments of Westland, Nordland & Germania were all part of the 5th SS Panzer "Wiking" Division.
Also the "Wiking" Division recruited from Germany, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Holland & Belgium.
The Divisions symbol was the rounded swastika or sunwheel.
A few things in this were a little vague tbh.
Nordland Standarte eventually became the core unit of the 11th Freiwilligen Dv "Nordland". The second tunic shown actually has their symbol on the collar tab, a three spoked Hakenkreuz.
. . . and Iceland - The son of the president of Iceland was in SS Wiking.
From 1943 regiment Nordland was pulled out of The Wiking Division, to form the new 11th SS Division Nordland.
@@jonrumple1464 the circular Hakenkruez is Irish-Aryan in origin and you also see it in Estonia or Finland a lot too on Ancient ruins and sites, probably Phoenician.
and now the sunwheel is used as a neonazi symbol.
Thank you for producing and posting fellows!
Most important was to fight the communists.
USSR or communists? Do you know the difference?
@@MsKatePark USSR means Communism,you moron...
Yes,like Finland did under the command of the greatest military commander ever:Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim.My respect!
@@dianapopa3356 The Finns didn't want to fight communism as a whole, just the USSR. All of communism and the USSR are different.
Wasn't that the real reason Germany was helped form an Army ?
To my knowledge it wasn't just the occupied territories. I also saw volunteers from other countries(blue division from Spain, division Russland from USSR, I even saw some union jacks, so even some volunteers from UK).
But harder to find uniforms from the blue division since it was redrawn from service because Franco was under presure from England to take a clear stand of his "neutrality".
@@henrikhilskov The Spanish Blue Division remained in action until October 1944 within months of war's end.
@@jean6872 Yes? So there were no uniforms to buy for allied soldiers when the reach germany I guess? I am NOT saying it is impossible. Just more rare.
@@henrikhilskov I am not sure of your point but I imagine Allied soldiers had more important things to be doing in October 1944 than scrounging for uniforms of their enemies which would have been difficult to come by as they were being worn by those shooting at them.
@@jean6872 Well youtube is not good for debate. hard to keep track of thread. I also wrote at the END of the war I did NOT wrote summer 44. It was first in may 45 and forward the trade with medals, uniforms ect. started. So there were NO spanish uniforms on the market... So they are more seldom... That is my point. And if your english is so bad that you don't understand it. Please keep it for yourself and do not border me...
Fascinating, thankyou for posting.
I love german uniforms of ww2 ss and other uniforms you could wear one today well without the collar tabs
Apparently Indian Waffen SS defended the French coast. There are pics of Indian nationalist Bose talking to Himmler.
BEAUTIFUL UNIFORMS
thanks for showing and explane a differents.. Wermaht und SS divisions have a nicest uniforms in the world..
I live in Germany and if you told a german that they would be instantly triggered
Are you fucking joking?
@@vladimirpetrovsk892 bruh
Vladimir Petrovsk Why.....Hugo Boss designed the high ranking SS uniform and over coats. They were outstanding. Beautiful. Why are the Germans so triggered?
Great video! I'm glad I saw it as now I learned that there is a fine museum the next state over that I must see!
The uniform of the real heroes of Europe.
No I don't think so Nimrod!
Dani Barcia I agree man, Its very tragic.
Except they got fucked in the ass by the allied forces
Jeffrey Dirksen created by anonymous lemming like yourself !
Fuck off !
Very impressive lineup . Thank you.
Finland mentioned!
Denmark mentioned!
Get back to Sweden plis, we miss you in Scandinavia...
Love them Finnish Lekrids :P
Jacob, it will be difficult to make Finland a part of Scandinavia, when the language is so different. And what the fuck, just like Finland was a part of Scandinavia when Sweden had it? That's like saying India was a part of the U.K....
Whoooooopieeeeeeee Finland is mentioned
Scandinavia is not the ''language area'' its the ''AREA of Scandinavian Peninsula Area''
Gooooooo Finland ........
i am glad that i have an original one just like that
For people who don't know: The actual cross for the Iron Cross was only worn the day it was awarded.
Only for the EK2. The EK1 would stay pinned on the breast pocket.
The size of the tunics really amaze me. I've seen many of these in person and am always astounded as to how small they are. I could not possibly fit into one. Neither could my teenage son. They almost look like children's clothes. I've also seen items worn by Civil War soldiers and they were small too. We would look like giants in comparison.
Not at all. The Average Danish height is 181 cm, whilst the American is 169 cm. Comparing to Denmark of course, 86% is moscular fit (buff would be an american term, or just know as well build) whilst the American is laying at 34%. (Dansk idræts institut). You would be suprised how a man can fit in that, I (myself) is just around 182 cm, and I'm on the upper level of well build when it comes to muscles, and I fint in mine quite well. (Reenactment)
Carl Klein : The same thing comes to mind when I'd viewed WWII US womens' uniforms. They were so petite. Even very fit young women are too big to fit into these uniforms. I guess Wonder Bread has done its job.
Jacob, I find that hard to believe. I'm from Norway, and I've been to Denmark several times. 80+% are not muscular/strong/fit/buff... Anyways, all of this was in WWII, and that was truly a different time, especially when it comes to nutrition/food and such. And not that many of the SS/Wehrmacht soldiers were Danish, only some thousands. The entire Wehrmacht (SS not included) have had around 18 million men fighting in it, and then a few thousands ain't that much...
Ya Know, I often wondered that myself. We have a Confederate Civil War Museum here in Missouri. And all of the Gray Uniforms looked liked they could fit a 12 year old kid or something. The curator told us people were smaller at that time, because they didn't have excess to all nutrients we have today. Many of them had to hunt and hand-pick their own food. Sometimes they would go a week on bread and water, and some days they would go without anything to eat. Today its available to us in mass, without doing all of the hard work.
@@Sigfreð I am danish too and 196 cm high but I know that the average high of a german soldier during the war was only 165 cm.
Finland fighting against communism from 1917 to 1991 when we ran out of Commies. Those were the days!
Now we are fighting them in our colleges and streets in the U.S.
0:32 "Tom", is modeling his WW2 vintage " Nueschwaben SS Janitor" uniform. LOL!
An interesting an well piece of history,nothing less,everything more.
The USSR won because of all their Asian reserves from Siberia and Mongolia
Mostly because their factories was out of enemy bombing range and they was able to produce oil.
No, Soviets had millions of Russians and they were used as cattle to go over mine fields and die. If Russians had same amount of soldiers as Germans, Germans would’ve defeated the Russians as the Germans/Austrians did in world war 1! If 10 million brainless zombies come at you Without weapons, eventually they’ll win, too!
@@mrstrange5733 i hear the USA and Britian were also in the mix
Mr Strange the Soviets were locked in a life & death battle in Kursk ,
. The Russians had a defensive perimeter 50 miles deep . The Nazis were grinding their way through it , but on the other side of the continent the D-Day landings were taking place . Hitler stripped sorely needed tanks & troops to ship them west to face the new threat . Also , the Germans had lost the advantage of rapid movements to the Russians . Who were receiving delivery of 10,000 studebaker trucks which transported troop , supplies &
Pulled artillery . While the Germans were becoming more & more dependent on horses & footware
No, it was cos, the americans and brits help a lot with inteligence ..which was gave advantage the russians over the germans..
Priceless!
@Panzer883 thats 100% correct...but it seems some people only want to see what the germans did and they think the Allies were just little angles that never murdered anyone.
Great job explaining the uniforms.
He is not trained a bit, the man who discusses and explains the origin of the uniforms.
notes: first the waffen ss didnt wear the marksmanship cord. second the collar (and sleeve) trim isnt called tress...its pronounced tres-seh. the marks on the right side of the collar are runes...not "ruins" (they arent bombed out buildings), and the "ober schutz" is pronounced "ober schut-ze" . small things but you would think a museum would get it right.
Not many weared the marksmanship for other than perade. It was a wellknow facts that marksman seldom was taken pow alive. Even the us army tend to murder them.
So according to you, if you want to work for a museum you need to have perfect German pronunciation.
You gave me a damn flashback
not ""ober schut-ze"
"Oberschütze"
@@mady383 If the person in the video cant even pronounce the simple e on the end, I doupt he ll be able to learn how to pronounce the ü correctly, even long time german learners have a hard time accurately pronouncing it.
Thankyou
I wish the danish one was an NCO. I would love to see the freekorps Denmark NCO.
Wow amazing uniforms
Beautiful Uniforms, I will get some
Absolutely fascinating
The Finnish volunteers of the Waffen SS were part of the Nordland regiment, not a division, and they used ordinary Waffen SS collar tabs. Check the facts
A brigade can become a division. The 3-armed rounded swastika of the Flemish volonteers stands for integration in the Reich. I think though it is not authenthic for collar tabs (kragenspiegel)
Yes, Nordland regiment became division 1943, but it was after the Finnish volunteers had completed their service
Yay, Finland mentioned!
AMAZING UNIFROMS!!!!.im going to do a SS "Danish Freikorps" impression here soon and i want my tunic to look just like the on @ 4:42!!
I wonder if this museum has a video on its collection of different German helmets
Could watch this all day!..
Where to buy German uniform
German soldiers followed fashion in their spare time
That Big Money Salvia intro though
Nice to see someone who knows exactly what they are talking about.
They just think that they know something. They are just talking out of their blowholes!
Kevin Barwiler he has the uniforms, you don’t.
I just saw an Australian tunic sell on e bay for $200 out of Texas. Lots of bids on it so these army clothes are quite popular.
DANKE!
Really well described and explained.
The dutch tunic has the westland cufftitle(very early (1940) and that can never be with an late dachau shield as seen on this tunic...
Primary goal was to fight communism. Unfortunately they lost
obershutze isnt technically another rank its still technically shutze they just have the pip for more than five years of service showing that he wasn't a promising soldier (in their eyes)
Wow
@ZeroG84 There were Finnish officers in the Waffen SS, many of them returned to Finland during Finlands peace treaty with the USSR, and a small amount remained in the Waffen SS. Larry Alan Thorne who served in the Finnish army left Finland after the cease fire with the USSR and continued in service as a Untersturmfuhrer in the Waffen SS until the end of ww2, then came to America and joined U.S. special forces and served in and was killed during the vietnam war.
You dressed this up nicely.
Did swedish volunteers get any uniqe symbols or shields? Or were they just sent to the Nordland division
i'm an indonesian and i like that stuff
That turnic with purple for administrative was RARE.
It is fitting to begin with a tale of rape. With Tarquin the Proud’s tyrannical reign as the last Roman monarch, Romans were eager to explore a new form of government: the republic. The ‘Rape of Lucretia’ was a popular tale which detailed the downfall of Tarquinius: Roman soldiers away at war decided to return and surprise their wives. Only Lucretia, wife to Collatinus, had been loyal and chaste while her husband was gone, but Tarquin’s son, Sextus, returned and raped her. She told her husband what had happened, then took her own life.
The incident sparked a revolt led by Lucius Junius Brutus and Collatinus, resulting in Tarquin’s expulsion from Rome. Tarquin and Lucretia, above by Peter Paul Rubens, was painted between 1609 and 1612. One of the Ruben’s finest early works, Friedrich the Great bought it in 1765 for his collection and it hung in his palace at Sans Souci.
The Rape of Lucretia vanished in the Soviet Union after being stolen by the Red Army in 1945. It was cut from its frame, folded and rolled up, stored improperly and badly damaged. It ended up in a communist officer’s home and was later sold for pennies. Enter the Russian Mafia. In 2003, a Russian named Vladimir Logvinenko tried to sell it to a German gallery, but he was reported to Russian authorities who then acquired the painting. Now restored, it hangs in the Pushkin State Museum. Following their custom, they refuse to return it to its rightful owner: Germany.
German military leaders charged with war crimes at Nürnberg were charged with “destruction et pillage d’oeuvres d’art” based specifically on the violation of Article 56 of the Hague Convention of 1907 regarding war booty. Ironically, the Hague convention got its inspiration from disputes which arose from the Napoleonic Wars regarding Napoleon’s notorious plundering. Article 56 was seen as expressing the prohibition of any unilateral seizure of cultural property and putting an explicit limit to the prior practice of unlimited looting. Sadly, the biggest theft of all, the most massive art heist of all times, the looting and plundering of German treasures has drawn scant, if any, media attention.
While there was no general authorization of the Allied Control Council to carry off German cultural property as a means of reparation or compensation, the Soviets openly ignored international law and regarded the vast amount of treasure and artwork pilfered from Germany as ‘compensation.’ Carrying off cultural property was only to be legally permitted for the purpose of “guarding against wartime dangers,” but this was the disingenuous excuse used by the Soviet Union for its massive looting operations. As early as 1942, the Soviet Union, art lovers that they were, had begun a deliberate plan of collecting art from Germany. In 1945, as the Red Army advanced into Germany, special “trophy brigades” went out to collect the slated works in German museums and ship them back to Moscow. From 1945 to 1949, more than two and a half million works of art were carried off from Germany, mostly to the metropolises of the Soviet Union where many of them are in secret storage even today.
A Russians list of 40,000 missing items they blame Germany for taking include the famous Amber Room of the Catherine Palace, but the list is vague and unspecific. The Germans, on the other hand, have greatly detailed accounts and carefully documented evidence of their lost treasures and they also insist that all the Russian art had already been returned. In reality, by the time of the Cold War, British and Americans had already returned most of the artworks under their jurisdiction to their respective countries of origin, including Russia: Over 500,000 objects were repatriated to the Soviet Union (a fact seldom mentioned by the Russians)! The German position has usually been that international law and the Hague Convention of 1907 on the rules of land warfare require that the works be returned unconditionally.
7,314 paintings belonging to the German bureau that administered the former Hohenzollern estates in Prussia were catalogued in 1939. Today, over 3,000 are still missing. This doesn’t even touch upon the sculpture, porcelain, musical instruments, clocks, silver, furniture, prints and drawings and millions of rare books plundered by Allies and the Red Army alike. Using foresight during the Allied bombing of Germany, museum personal bravely attempted to safeguard the masterpieces in their charge by shifting collections from various depots in salt mines, churches, cellars and estates to save the objects from destruction. As Berlin was falling, art treasures from the old Prussian castles were hidden in safe places in the countryside. Almost all of the 3,000 missing paintings not destroyed by bombing were taken by the Russians. From the time they conquered Potsdam in April 1945, where many collections had ended up, until 1946, everything that could be moved was taken to Moscow.
The Russians are unrepentant and arrogant about their thievery and seem to go down this brazen path with the tacit approval of civilized nations. The Pushkin Museum’s 1995 show in Moscow ludicrously called “Twice Saved,” unveiled 63 paintings ranging from the late 14th to the late 19th century from German and Hungarian private and museum collections. A month later, St. Petersburg’s Hermitage Museum opened “Hidden Treasures Revealed,” an exhibition of 74 mostly Impressionist and post-Impressionist paintings by artists such as Degas, Renoir, Gauguin and van Gogh, stolen almost entirely from private German collections.
So funny! Wearing protective gloves while handling uniforms but a uniform on a WIRE hanger! As Joan Crawford would say "A WIRE HANGER"!
Who is Joan Crawford, and why is wife hanger bad? These aren’t even gabardine and aren’t OFFICER tunics. They’re not really worth much. GABARDINE OFFICER SS TUNICS ARE WORTH A LOT. And better looking.
@@mrstrange5733 'Not really worth much' You are kidding aren't you? Try finding an original O/R for less that 12K these days.
@@MrVolvobloke most m43 tunics or somewhere around that time are 1k-2k USD on average.
@@drownindesigner I was referring to the SS tunics featured.
@11thSSNordlandPzG Yea, many Allied soldiers killed German POWs.
Why is that every time someone disagrees with another on this type of post they recur to insulting language?
Because Everyone gets a big sack sitting behind a Keyboard..........
because what Kevin said
because internet let kids be here too.
Jewish media brainwashing
@@humanforfreedom9583 Judeo-Bolshevik*
Wasn't purple for Smoke Troops who manned the Nebelwurfers?
The Waffen SS were considered a criminal organisation after the trials. They were not ordinary troops since the SS itself was an organ of the Nazi Party and was thus essentially connected. Members of the Waffen SS were denied pensions afforded to both the Heer and Kriegsmarine, except for veterans after 1943 who were conscripted. But Waffen SS members before 1943 were volunteers therefore they were responsible.
except if you get yourself invalid you would still get the pension.
No one had pieces of flare like them.
ahem flair :).
I would’ve joined just for the uniform.
Made by Hugo Boss!! :)
Denmark! For the fatherland
No. The slogan was for God, King and fatherland.
Right above The Fatherland so it was only a matter of time before Germany gobbled up Denmark.
Walter Heck and Hugo Boss Company did know exactly what was doing
The germans lost the war but won the fashion show.....
@Morten101 I've seen the error of my ways . I had only delt in repro uniforms and some Heer stuff. I saw my first orginal SS uniform the other day it was 12k.
Cool.
The Langemarck is the belguim flemish Division
I wonder what stories those jackets could tell - if only things could speak.
Those jackets fit me perfectly
Cool Video!
0:37 "Well, Ron, what we have here today is a collection of SS uniforms and if our viewers order within the next 30 minutes, they get an extra uniform FREE!"
But wait, if you really want to glorify the cowardly SS achievements, call in the next ten minutes and we'll send you an Einsatsgrupen uniform absolutely free!
Gut!
Where is Ss Skanderbeg division uniform
Interesting
Most likely later in the war those two stripes because of great losses also signify that they were an officer of that unit say Sergeant equals Lieutenant Lieutenant equals major major equals Colonel more of a word-of-mouth thing plus the two stripes signifying that he is now an officer though without obvious visual rank also referred to as “piston stripes”!
Any idea where I could get a Croatian uniform?
Sooooo awesome Uniforms.. I would like to own one..!!!
Anyone else notice the pile of hersheys in the background?
excellent!! do not forget Italian and Swedish volunteers in the waffen ss
One of the symbols is the flag of the isle of Man
I love reading some of the comments made by people who think because they watched saving private ryan and band of brother it makes them war experts on WW2 and German forces :D takes a little more reading research etc to call yourself an expert. and a lot just seem to have done little a NO research
Hear hear. Everyone is a Internet genius these days.If I only had a nickel for every stupid or incorrect fact that I have read on the web , I could retire.One of the most common is that Hugo Boss designed the ss tunics.Not true, they manufactured them but so did dozens of firms but people state it like fact.
Sometimes I think the web does more to dumb down people than to educate.
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I see!
I wish there's one army like this today to fight islamic terrorism!
I just love stupid people. Himmeler made an alliance with the great muffin in Bagdad and he helped Himmeler to create an ss division full of muslims. It was called the ss handschar division and by the way was fighting us army in france 1944...
3:50 their is no country called holland, holland is a province!, that red-white-blue is the flag of the united kingdom of the netherlands!.
obviously these uniforms aren't authentic...
US volunteer division would have been cool...
Can you please do a documentary on the European volunteers? I would love to know more about them, especially if they were forced to volunteer.
There are a few good books, ie, "for europe" about the french anti communist volunteers.
In a very large, very spread out organization, i don't doubt some recruiters got pushy, ie, instances of union army recruiters hitting people with batons if they didn't "volunteer" to fight in Lincolns army, but that wasn't the norm.
Overwhelmingly, it was anti communism.
There is a sad irony in that as Stalin stood as master of Europe and poised to be master of Asia thanks to the communist loving FDR, some returning frenchmen were killed as "traitors" , going to their death singing the "marsaillaise " (sp), shot by communist terrorists who we armed singing the "internationale".
Most definitely NOT forced to join or fight.. very highly motivated and trained.
There is an amazing documentry about the Belgian (Vlaanderen, which is the northern part) volunteers. ua-cam.com/video/yIidMxKCS4U/v-deo.html
I'm Dutch myself but so far i couldn't find much about it on the web, however there are 2 books i can recommand which are called: Feldgrauw and Viking.
What i can tell you is that there was nobody from western occupied country's forced to fight for the SS (Wehrmacht only recruited Germans), they were mislead however. For example many of them didn't even know what it was exactly that they signed for because they couldn't read German very well, they just wanted to fight communism or have some sort of adventure. Another example is that part of the Dutch and Belgian volunteers were promised to fight in units that consisted only of people that spoke their language/were from the same country, soldiers as well as leaders. When they were send to the Eastern front, they found out that reality was much different. There was also a group of people that joined the SS simply because at home they were poor and didn't have much opportunities to build a carreer, by joining the SS they were promised a good future for them and their family. What's also very interesting to me is that it seems that most of these men, other than anti-communist, were not interested in politics all too much. Ofcourse there were some hardcore nazi's but i think they were a minority. I'm not a historian but i did lots and lots of research on this matter so maybe i can answer some of the quiestions that you have.
smart guy to wear gloves, i got 5 ss tunics, 55 helmets, 15 ss, i am always buying ww2 n ww1 militaria , german usa etc, i got raf flyers jacket. italian n russian helmets ,
May I see some of your stuff? :D
The forerunner of NATO....
Napoleons wars wwi tried to solceller the same problem as wwii and EU does. Free trade and no borders to prevent people to move around for a living.
@Gregiorp In what universe? an original SS uniform will be at least 4-5000 bucks
As if those tunics are ready to be worn again, for real
He was part of the fallschirmjager also it seems
Hitler: I want a uniform for my Army! That will mark in History!
Hugo Boss: Yes?
That would be Himmler asking
@11thSSNordlandPzG Whatever crimes the allies committed by were NOT sanctioned by the authorities. The much more numerous crimes of the Waffen SS WERE sanctioned by the authorities. The Waffen SS were bred to be brutal and ruthless.
3:03 hes wrong the tunic is not "engineers" the shoulder boards that are black are for "Pioniers".......but overall nice tunics!!!!!!.......i like how on the M36 tunic it had a beVo sleeve eagle with a RzM stlye cuff title......it goes to show people that the germans were very good "recyclers" in tunics....what ever they had to issue you is what you got....very nice tunics!!!!!!..at least they are at the right place that they will be appreciated and not thrown around in someones attic.
Pioneers are the Engineers or combat Engineers. Different armies have different titles for same job.
I like these 50cents wire hangers.. I live near the wwII gothic line and once we found a farm full of german stuff.. uniform parts helmets and panzerfaust (one)
Still have any of those? Belgian collector here 🔥
Oberschütze is actually similar to senior recruit, Gefreiter/Obergefreiter is Pvt. First Class