Sergeant 08

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At the end of ww1 we should not forget the skulls on Freikorps vehicles!

Panzer!

And tanks!

More photos!

Have we ever talked about skull symbols on air planes or tanks?

Not necessarily..........they wore two-piece swimsuits long before 1945.

Here are some from the 4th Century AD.

Robin, I think you know the photo. Look at the woman in the background.

I'm no fashion expert.

But the style of clothes looks more like 50's or early 60's to me.

Some of these badges are still an mistery. When made?

Yes, I think! Post war swimming badge.

Another skull I got today.

Anyone else got (or even seen) one?

Is it not this one?

Rarer to find are small skulls on caps!

A skull on Imperial Marine caps? Possible on Freikorps headgear!

That CDV was taken by Otto Hoeffke. I have four CDVs of flamethrower pioneers taken by Hoeffke, and they all have that same metal flower vase and the chair. He must have been the favorite photographer of the flamethrower regiment.

I already posted this image in this thread, I think, but it's worth mentioning again. I bought this CDV from a German eBay dealer who sent it to me by registered mail. It disappeared. Although it arrived in New York on July 27, 2009, the U.S. Post Office told me that they won't do an investigation to find out what happened to it. The Americans said that the German post office has to investigate, but the Germans won't investigate, either. The tracking number doesn't matter. The Americans told me that the package can't be lost, because everyone has to sign for it. If it's lost, someone will lose their job. The Germans, on the other hand, simply refuse to answer me or the U.S. Post Office.

Nobody cares. My money goes to support the people who work in both postal services, but they don't care enough about me to get off their fat rear ends and be professional. They take no pride in their work. Civil servants are often (not always, but often) horrible people.

It's a shame. I really wanted this card.

The same atelier, the same chair and vase, but only one year later....

1918! From the same source like the other photo that I posted!

Nice! Did you buy that?

Yes!

And back to the Flammenwerfer.....This is what I found today!

Not a lot of new skull related things during last weeks.

Here are my two favourites. Leibhusaren!

Another "hero of the air" who used a skull! But it looks better on a busby.

Thank buddah that time is infinate......

;-)

Some collectors have staying power, others not.

Glass eye or strabismus, either from a wound or from birth.

http://en.wikipedia....wiki/Strabismus

Could a man with strabismus join the flamethrower regiment if he already had the condition? Or was he wounded and allowed to remain?

In my opinion wounded.

Sergeant 08,

I'm not interested in splitting hairs:

http://en.wikipedia....Political_party

That is the first sentence: A political party is a political organization ...

Uwe

NSDAP / DNVP = political party = political organization , I have no problem with it.

But I think the "Nationale Front" was a political coalition. NSDAP and DNVP+ Stahlhelm (=Kampffront S-W-R) worked together during the Reichstagswahl 1933.

Can you call a tinnie (that is a symbol for a political coalition) a membership badge? I don't think so.

Whatever it is, it is not easy to find theme related informations.

Hi Sergeant 08,

yes, I think, that it is a member's badge.

I found some small local organizations early in 1933, combinations of NSdAP and other national parties against KPD and SPD, e.g.:

http://weimarer-repu..._fruehjahr_1933

Please, there is a copyright.

Uwe

NSDAP and DNVP. They worked together during local elections (Liste).

A political unit....but no organization, I think.

Sergeant 08:

I received the card I posted above. Not a black Totenkopf. Dark, but not black.

Thomas, thanks for your help again!

Maybe we need more time to find the truth, but it is out there....

Despite the rumors, Germans do have a sense of humor, its just different.

There are rumors, that we have no sense of humor?

Propaganda of our enemies!