Foreign female Auxiliaries

[Arto O]

From Panzergrenadier net.

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Norwegian nurses:

[Joahana]

I find this picuter in book " Latvian Legionnaires" which I bought in Riga War Museum. I have never thought that in from Pomerania in 1945 were Latvian womens with SS volounteers.
The picutres has coemment: 15 th Division Supply Regiment legionnaires. Pomerania, 1945.
I'm courious what uniform she wore?

[Joahana]

And I have in this book also this picture. Commented:Construction regiments, legionnaires withdrawing. Sttetin, spring, 1945.

[Vikki]

I find this picuter in book " Latvian Legionnaires" which I bought in Riga War Museum. I have never thought that in from Pomerania in 1945 were Latvian womens with SS volounteers.
The picutres has coemment: 15 th Division Supply Regiment legionnaires. Pomerania, 1945.
I'm courious what uniform she wore?

Hello Joahana,

I'm seeing SS eagles on the caps and sleeves (including the woman's), but I'm not familiar with the insignium at the top of her cap, so I'll wait for Torsten or someone else to comment.

Best,

~Vikki

[Fennicus]

The emblem on the cap looks like the Latvian sunburst, which was used as a national insignia. Maybe one of our Latvian friends could comment on this?

Fennicus

[Heimatschuss]

Hello Fennicus,

many thanks for explaining. I didn't know about that sunburst symbol but was wondering about it already when another example appeared in this thread viewtopic.php?p=1302767#p1302767. In that case you can even faintly see the three stars in the sunburst.

As it seems this sunburst symbol was primarily (exclusively?) used by personnel of 15. Waffengrenadier-Division der SS though the men displayed it on the collar patches (Windrow, 1982, p.18, 25). Anna Bormane MD mentioned in the thread above served in the training battalion of that division.

References:

Windrow, Martin
The Waffen-SS
Men-at-Arms-Series, Vol.34
Osprey Publishing; London; 1982
http://cdn.preterhuman.net/texts/histor ... n%20SS.pdf

Best regards
Torsten

[Arto O]

Hi,
An interesting picture from Der Freiwillige magazine (heft 3 1979) about norwegian volunteers with a lady. Unluckily the text just mention a lady with national costume. Is she a nurse, a visitor, or are the men on home leave?
with best regards
Arto

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[von thoma]

Is she a nurse, a visitor, or are the men on home leave?

I think is not a nurse.

A spanish volunteer in Russia joking with a nurse.

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Photo:https://plus.google.com/photos/102842729835310006035/albums/5151589125254268497?banner=pwa

[Vikki]

Hi,
An interesting picture from Der Freiwillige magazine (heft 3 1979) about norwegian volunteers with a lady. Unluckily the text just mention a lady with national costume. Is she a nurse, a visitor, or are the men on home leave?
with best regards
Arto

Hello Arto O,

It's impossible to tell whether she's a nurse or female auxiliary based on the photo alone, since she is in civilian clothes. From the time I spent in Norway, I'd hazard a guess that the national costume she's wearing could be Norwegian. Is there any reason to suspect that she's other than a civilian?

~Vikki

[Marcus Wendel]

For those interested in the Norwegian nurses on the Eastern front and can manage Norwegian, try "Fordømte engler: Norske kvinner på østfronten" by Egil Ulateig.

/Marcus

[Arto O]

Thanks von thoma, Vikki and Marcus,
yes, she might be just any civilian. The original text says: "Norwegische Freiwillige der Waffen-SS mit Norwegerin im Nationalkstum am 10, Januar 1942". So she should be norwegian.
Here another from Wenn alle Bruder schweigen, now surely showing a flemish nurses.
with best regards
Arto

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