Nationality of WaffenSS soldier (pic)

[wikinger59]

Anyone can tell from what country this soldier is? I notice a shield on the shoulder boards. Can't tell what it is.

[Christoph Awender]

Hello

It is a fieldpolice man from "Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler". Most likely a german. The cyphers on the shoulder straps are the "LAH" symbol.

\Christoph

[stab131]

What is his weapon?

Jeff

[drapeau noir]

A russian rifle If I remember well

[Mansal D]

Looks like an SVT-40?

[berlin]

I THINK IT IS A RE ENACTMENT SOLDIER .I WAS IN THE REAL L.A.H.
AND THER IS SAMETHINK NO RIGHT WITH HIS UNIFORM.
ALL THE BEST BERLIN

[Doktor Krollspell]

Hello Berlin!

I saw in your other post that you belonged to the LSSAH between May 1941 and December 1948(?).

I WAS IN THE "LEIBSTANDARTE SS ADOLF HITLER"FROM 1. MAY 1941 TILL 27. DEC.1948 SO MY PAPERS SAY.

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Which unit(s) within this premier SS Division did you belong to during the war? And what do your papers say about May 1945 to December 1948? POW camp? Camp authority papers?


Regards,

Krollspell

[Charles Trang]

This is not a reenactment photo as this one belongs to a famous roll taken by SS-Kriegsberichter Franz Roth who was attached to Leibstandarte. Other photos of the same series show SS-Feldgendarmen in an ukrainian village in search of weapons. These ones were found and destroyed in a yard by an SS-Obersturmführer. Suspected partisans are then brought out from a barn and interrogated. Another roll from the same series show the SS-Feldgendarmen kill a russian political commissar in a wheat field.

[wikinger59]

The weapon is definitely a Tokarev SVT40.