Helferin Items

[Heimatschuss]

Hello,

want to work for the SS? Then hurry and reply to this job advert in the Tages-Post from Linz (Upper Austria), July 3rd, 1940 (page 10) looking for a Stenotypistin (shorthand typist).
http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno? ... 10&zoom=33

SS job advert.jpg

Best regards
Torsten

[Heimatschuss]

Hello,

here's a photo of another item used by female Luftwaffe personnel. On a number of Luftwaffe airbases as well as other Luftwaffe installations all civilian personnel (male and female) while on work had to wear round metal badges proving they belonged to that facility.

LW mechanic 1.jpg

The badges showed the Luftwaffe eagle and an inscription with the name of the facility but otherwise differed in design. Schlicht & Angolia (1999, p.584) describe two examples from the Fliegerhorst-Kommandanturen in Erfurt and Lüneburg. Unfortunately the inscription on this badge remains illegible even under strong magnification. Just that it's badge No. 11 can be seen.

LW mechanic 1 - zoom.jpg

Here's the example from Schlicht & Angolia (1999, p.583) for comparison:

LW airbase ID badge.jpg

References:

Schlicht, Adolf; Angolia, John R.
Die deutsche Wehrmacht. Uniformierung und Ausrüstung 1933 - 1945.
Band 3: Die Luftwaffe
Motorbuch Verlag; Stuttgart; 1999


Best regards
Torsten

[Vikki]

Nice, Torsten!

~Vikki

[Mike Shaner]

Great posts!! Thank all of you.

[jnette]

These are absolutely wonderful !
I have scoured these pages and pictures hoping against hope to find something relating to my mother. One photo nearly caused me to spit out my coffee as it bore such a striking resemblance to her, but indeed it was not her.
I have but ONE photo of my mother during that time period with the NSDAP plain red armband with swastika.. was hoping to find something else to tell me what department she actually belonged to. All I know is that she was in Italy after leaving her home in Vienna, and that she was responsible for informing families of fallen troops of the deaths of their loved ones. Then taken POW in Italy and I believe taken to France before being released and returning to Vienna.

I'm assuming she destroyed all of her papers and documents before coming to the US, married to my father. I so wish I could find more about her. *sigh*