Totenkopfs [Totenköpfe] throughouth history

[Arto O]

Hi,
WARNING: This topic is only for Totenkopf maniatics Don´t try to make Totenkopfs at home without supervisions of your parents.
There were a topic about this in 2002, but for some reason it was locked. I would like to invite our dear forum members send photographs, drawings etc about Totenkopfs in use of military uniforms, insignias, symbols etc: Husars, Cossacks, SS, Panzers, Condor Legion. What else. You send and inform.
Thanks in advance
Arto
Husars. Source: Der Freiwillige, heft 8, August 1969

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Condor Legion:

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[Arto O]

Freikorps Erhardt, Berlin 1919

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3rd "Totenkopf" Division´s vehicle

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Drums, Der Freiwillige magazine

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[Arto O]

The Italian Black Brigades used a lot of death heads in their uniforms.

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Unknown Freikorps member.

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Trumpet corps of LAH (Uniforms of the SS by Andrew Mollo)

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[Sewer King]

Here's a less well-known, small use of the Death's Head by Imperial Japanese troops.

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Today's British Army has a Death's Head cap badge for the Queen's Royal Lancers cavalry regiment, continued from that of the 17th / 21st Lancers.

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Unknown Freikorps member

This photo was captioned as Freikorps Hacketau in Ludwig Baer's History of the German Steel Helmet (R. James Bender Publishing, 1985), page 77. But I think other FK wore the Death's Head too.

-- Alan

[Arto O]

Finnish jaegers:

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Freikorps Erhardt??? And the next one, source Mundo Historia

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Smiling one:

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[von thoma]

The Kronprinz Wilhelm von Preussen,was a great user of the Totenkopf.

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Photo:http://editthis.info/kaiserreich/Kronprinz_Wilhelm and -http://www.denblanken.com/keizer/kroonprins.html

[von thoma]

More Finnish Troops with skulls.

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Photo:http://www.ww2incolor.com/forum/showthread.php?4225-Equipment-Gear-identification-thread

[von thoma]

The SS-Heimwehr Danzig,with a skull on the armored vehicle.

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[Arto O]

Thanks von thoma,
There is an interesting link about use of "totenkopf"s in the uniforms of Imperial German army in
http://www.kaisersbunker.com/ht/index.htm

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SA Totenkopf Brigade marching in Braunschweig, around 1923

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[von thoma]

August von Mackensen.

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Photo:http://anabase-en.blogspot.com.es/2010/07/ruffled-feathers.html

[omega_chile]

GIR (grupo de intervencion y rescate) Ecuador - Police Special forces. I understand they are not allowed to use the deathhead logo any more, as it gives off the wrong impression.



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[von thoma]

An aircraft of the Kampfgeschwader 54 (KG 54) "Totenkopf".

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[von thoma]

F-14 "Tomcat" ,USS Nimitz (CVN-68),with his personal skull.

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Photo:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:F-14-vf-84.jpg

[Arto O]

Thanks again von thoma,
Here 3 from Totenkopf division, all artiscally different.
Source; Histomil.com

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[Arto O]

Here what I see as some pre-war HJ kriegsmarine section, but really only my imagination
With best regards
Arto

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Source: Histomil.com