The Most 1939 Iron Crosses In One Place.

[ChrisKelly]

The most 1939 Iron Crosses you will ever see in one place...  The Central Armed Forces Museum in Moscow, Russia...

 

Sources:

 

https://www.tripadvisor.ru/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g294474-d636597-i315333973-The_Motherland_Monument-Kyiv.html

 

https://www.argunners.com/a-tour-in-the-central-armed-forces-museum-in-moscow/amp/

 

http://www.awesomeexplorations.com/central-armed-forces-museum-moscow-russia/

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/BattlefieldV/comments/d0u5io/inspiration_for_those_playing_allies_the_moscow/

 

Edited December 19, 2024 by ChrisKelly

[Bernd_W]

The glass rectangle is not full, its just one layer behind the visible parts of the glass, you can see the fabric shining through below the first layer of ICs a several times. Some say, it was full back in the times, but then the officials needed a side hustle. Sounds legit, its Russia.

[VtwinVince]

Sounds more like a Ukrainian scam to me.

[Bernd_W]

Look, Im not into politics, dont care about these people, doesn't matters from which country, they are as important as the dirt under my nails towards me. Could all extinct like the dinosaur, I would not care. I would open a bottle of Champagne or some XXO cognac. 

I just posted what was the consens about these pictures when the were posted on several other boards. At the WAF there is also a topic about the "Deutschland erwache" flags at this museum, while the experts there share the opinion the flags in the older pictures are real, the newer pictures seems to show reproductions. Therefore the "Sounds legit", after 1990 everybody tried to make his pockets as full as possible, that's common knowledge, and is more judging politicians worldwide than the Russian people.

Edited December 19, 2024 by Bernd_W

[ChrisKelly]

I thought those photographs were phenomemal. 

 

Friends and relatives of mine commented on many occasions how the stuff we search out and pay outrageous prices for was hauled off by the truckloads in 1944-1945.  One of my relatives mentioned seeing an American officer sitting on a Willys jeep, bragging and showing off three full army footlockers loaded with "souveneirs and trophies".  The NCO with him joked that the officer had a full-sized, live-action German field marshal in there, too.  Another of my relatives, trying to support the family back home, let a mint-condition 1939 Iron Cross First Class in its original case go for $75USD to an American soldier who paid him in American currency. For my poor relative, that was two months' gross pay.  

 

This serves as a reminder of the colossal effort, all things considered, that war really was...

 

Here's a few more:

 

 

Here's one way the British did it in 1945... Step-by-step de-nazification in action.

 

Edited December 19, 2024 by ChrisKelly