Hans-Georg Reinhardt

[Richard Hargreaves]

This may seem a very odd question... but does anyone know what the spectacles Hans-Georg Reinhardt (CO 4th Pz Div in 1939) wore. Not so much spectacles as double monacles with a bridge holding them in place. Rather looks like the Opti Grab from The Jerk.

[Doktor Krollspell]

Hello Halder!

Generaloberst and Schwertenträger Georg-Hans Reinhardt usually wore eye glasses of the Pince-Nez type, that is a pair of eye glasses with a spring that clips on the nose. Also a favored type regularly used by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler...


Himmler with Pince-nez eyeglasses

http://encyklopedia.korba.pl/page/Heinrich_Himmler


Regards,

Krollspell

[Richard Hargreaves]

Thanks Doktor.

I always thought pince-nez were something different, the little half moon glasses. But as pince nez means "pinch nose" it makes sense!

[tigre]

Hello to all ; a little complement..............................

Planning the attack of the 4th Pz-Div in the Polish campaign in 1939!

Later in 1945 Georg-Hans Reinhardt was arrested by the US Army as a war criminal and in 1947 convicted in Nuremberg to 15 years imprisonment due "murder and ill-treatment of prisoners of war, and of murder, deportation, and hostage-taking of Civilians in occupied countries". He was released in 1952.

Source: https://tomschrat.wordpress.com/2013/04/08/generle/

Cheers. Raúl M .

[tigre]

Hello to all ; Just to add another picture...............

The occupation of the Sudetenland 1938!

Source: http://www.guntherprienmilitaria.com.mx ... age044.jpg

Cheers. Raul M .

[tigre]

Hello to all ; a little more..............................

Ostende, preparations for Seelöwe!

Source: http://www.dday-overlord.com/forum/phot ... t7192.html

Cheers. Raúl M .