Unidentified Luftwaffe bands

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Unidentified Luftwaffe bands

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Post by PaulReck » 21 May 2010, 02:02

Stationed in Belgium. From an album split up on Ebay.
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Post by PaulReck » 21 May 2010, 02:06

From the same group.
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Post by Sdt » 28 Jun 2010, 23:40

Great pictures. :milwink:

Here is one more of an unidentified Musikkorps der Luftwaffe.
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Post by Sdt » 28 Jun 2010, 23:42

A Luftwaffe band in front of the ship "Bremen".
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Post by Sdt » 28 Jun 2010, 23:44

"Ostermänner" is the composition they are playing. [It was a Schlager medley by Willi Ostermann. Ivan Ž.]
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Re: Unidentified Luftwaffe bands

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Post by Teppeny » 02 Jun 2019, 17:11

Hello everyone, I found some pics of a speech that Léon Degrelle made in Palais de Chaillot (Paris) on 5 March 1944. I have no clues about the Musikkorps except that it's not the Herman Göring Musikkorps, because in the pics, the musicians don't have the Herman Göring division cuff title (the caption says that it's the Leibstandarte Musikkorps, which is incorrect). Can someone help me to find out which Musikkorps is here ?

The pics are from this awesome archive website https://bibliotheques-specialisees.pari ... 001660224/
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A more zoomed pic to see the conductor:
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Photographer: André Zucca.

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Re: Unidentified Luftwaffe bands

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Post by Schmeisser » 11 Sep 2020, 16:26

From https://www.sz-photo.de/

Not sure about the band but I'd say the conductor is Paul Haase. Can anyone confirm this?
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Zweiter Weltkrieg: Westfront. Deutsche Militärkonzerte in Paris, 1940-1944.

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Re: Unidentified Luftwaffe bands

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Post by Ivan Ž. » 12 Sep 2020, 13:40

The conductor does look like Haase, but what puzzles me is the lack of ("General Göring") cuff-titles on bandsmen's uniforms; could it be Haase with his "General Göring" bandsmen without cuff-titles (but why wouldn't they be wearing them?), or Haase as a Musikinspizient (wearing his old "General Göring" cuff-title) conducting several different bands (the photo shows only one part of musicians), or maybe it's not him at all... In any case, more photos from this concert might help solving the dilemma(s), at least partially.

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Re: Unidentified Luftwaffe bands

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Post by Ivan Ž. » 17 Nov 2020, 22:41

A very nice press photo showing a Luftwaffe band posing with Olympic contestants of all races at the Olympic Village (Döberitz), 1936. The band might have belonged to the I Battalion of the 22nd Flak Regiment, stationed in Döberitz. (The bandleader - next to the kettle drummer, with glasses - wears Musikmeister collar tabs.) Of course, it could also be some other air force band that attended the games.

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German Empire Free State Prussia - Brandenburg Provinz (Province) - Berlin: Sportsmen in the olympic village near Doeberitz listening to military music - undated.

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