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helmut
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thanks kind of intresting. Did the Indians wear the SS runes or did they have some special insignia?panzermahn wrote:It might interest you that 2 years ago, I heard about an upcoming book in India about the Indian Waffen SS Legion where some Indian SS officers received the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd class
Other than that I had no info
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Panzermahn
There is a widely-circulated picture of a Skih SS Legionnaire in the net (search for it in the AHF or Feldgrau) who wore the Bengal Tiger head kragenspiegeln which I believed is the only known photo in the world that shows the existence of the special collar tab for the Indian Waffen SS legion.Helmut Von Moltke wrote:thanks kind of intresting. Did the Indians wear the SS runes or did they have some special insignia?panzermahn wrote:It might interest you that 2 years ago, I heard about an upcoming book in India about the Indian Waffen SS Legion where some Indian SS officers received the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd class
Other than that I had no info
Regards
Panzermahn
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helmut
Dear fons,fons wrote:They were transferred late into 1944.
The transfer can be called a mere formality.
Its a waffen-ss unit because of the transfer but technically speaking it remained a wehrmacht outfit.
Waffen-ss uniforms arrived very late, a lot actually refused to wear the stuff.
A few ss-men got transferred to it, the new commander being liked so much he left for Berlin a bit later...its as much of a ss-unit as the last-ditch volksgrenadier divisions on the end...
to panzermahn, whats the source for this 'indians caught in berlin' story? what unit caught them and who wrote it down? (not that i believe it happened, but i want to check myself)
Cheerios,
fons
Hey there,panzermahn wrote:Dear fons,
The source for this assertion is from two separate Russian memoirs of two Red Army soldiers who fought in Berlin recently published (2005 & 2006). It was translated by a comrade of mine after he used those books for his research. I'll get you the name of the book later...
I cross-checked and found a Bolshevik record (in english, suprisingly) of the number of European and non-European POWs they had in their Gulags and found it stated there is an Indian POW. It is interesting because both of the memoirs mentioned that a single Indian legionnaire from the stabskompanie of Indische Freiwillige Legion der SS (that were based at Berlin) was captured. However there is no mentioned of what has happen to him although the Bolshevik record I mentioned just now stated that he was repatriated in 1947
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Panzermahn