Seeking info about SS-Fallschirmjäger-Bataillon 500.

Daniel L · Post by **Daniel L** » 07 Apr 2004 23:23

Excellent and interesting post, Paddy. It was a good read. R. Sellner has written a short eight page long biography about Kurt Rybka, containing four photos. Is this something that you can recommend (information-wise)?

Best regards/ Daniel

Daniel L · Post by **Daniel L** » 07 Apr 2004 23:54

Some press photos that might be interesting. These are from Klemen's thread about MNZS photos. I'm not sure if the photos of the paratroopers on the Tiger and by the StuG really are from the SS-Fallschirmjäger-Bataillon but I post them anyway.

Source: http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic. ... sc&start=0

Best regards/ Daniel

Paddy Keating · Post by **Paddy Keating** » 08 Apr 2004 00:11

D. Löwenhamn wrote:Excellent and interesting post, Paddy. It was a good read. R. Sellner has written a short eight page long biography about Kurt Rybka, containing four photos. Is this something that you can recommend (information-wise)?

Best regards/ Daniel

Reinhold Sellner's Rybka bio is certainly very useful indeed. As Sellner notes, Rybka was one of the Germania men who did the parachute course at Stendal. So was Ernst Krag but, interestingly, Krag's personal file makes no mention of the Fallschirmschützenabzeichen he earned the right to wear. I haven't seen Rybka's file...yet. Sellner makes a good point when he says that the Drvar assault was in three waves. The initial airborne assault is generally thought of as the first wave yet one of the tasks of the parachutists who jumped was to secure the LZs for the gliders. So, strictly speaking, the morning assault was in two waves. However, gliders began landing at the same time as parachutists and several paras doubling off the DZs/LZs to their FUPs were killed by landing gliders. Typical SNAFU. In fact, the Drvar mission was one big SNAFU but this was not the paras' fault. However, I digress. Yes, I would recommend Rybka's mini-biography by Sellner as essential reading for anyone interested in the SS-Fallschirmjäger. I only have a copy of the typewritten manuscript with the photos. Has he brought it out as a booklet?

PK

Daniel L · Post by **Daniel L** » 08 Apr 2004 07:53

Thanks for the recommendation, Paddy. Yes, Sellner has brought it out as a booklet. A laser printed one. It's available for three Euro.

What does FUP stand for?

Best regards/ Daniel

Paddy Keating · Post by **Paddy Keating** » 08 Apr 2004 08:59

FUP = Forming Up Point.

PK

K.Kocjancic · Post by **K.Kocjancic** » 08 Apr 2004 09:24

D. Löwenhamn wrote:Thanks for the recommendation, Paddy. Yes, Sellner has brought it out as a booklet. A laser printed one. It's available for three Euro.

What does FUP stand for?

Best regards/ Daniel

Where we could buy it?

Regards,
Klemen

Paddy Keating · Post by **Paddy Keating** » 08 Apr 2004 10:19

Klemen,

Do you know if there is a caption with this image from the museum archives? Are these men from SS-FJ-Btl 600?

PK

K.Kocjancic · Post by **K.Kocjancic** » 08 Apr 2004 10:33

Hi!

At this moment I don't know - but I'll contact museum (right away) or visited (next week, if they don't find anything).

Regards,
Klemen

Daniel L · Post by **Daniel L** » 08 Apr 2004 11:43

Paddy,

I don't know if you are thinking the same as I am but I recall reading, probably in one of your posts, that the SS-Fallschirmjäger didn't wear helmet covers.

Best regards/ Daniel

Paddy Keating · Post by **Paddy Keating** » 08 Apr 2004 12:15

They didn't have helmet covers in Waffen-SS comouflage material but I have a photo of an SS paratrooper wearing what appears to be a cover on his M38 in the same geometric splinter pattern as the LW jump smock. He is with a group of SS-Fallschirmjäger in Kurland, where they fought alongside Rudolf Witzig's Fallschirmpioniere so the cover might be a drawstring LW-issue cover acquired from a Luftwaffe comrade. Or it could just be material cut from a scrap jump smock and wrapped around the M38. The mortar team in the photo posted by Klemen could be from 4. (Schw)/Fallschirmjäger-Btl 600. The geometric splinter cover in this photo, however, looks like a standard WH-issue cover because it is clearly the wrong shape for the M38 jump helmet. Or it could be cut from a jump smock, which would explain the strange appearance, with what look like sleeve or shoulder seams here and there. Difficult to tell. It is clearly not a cover made for the M38.

PK

PK

Daniel L · Post by **Daniel L** » 08 Apr 2004 14:54

Thanks for the clarification, Paddy.

Best regards/ Daniel

Arminiusder Cherusker1 · Post by **Arminiusder Cherusker1** » 08 Apr 2004 17:46

Dear Paddy,
Agte published meanwhile his book called""SS-Fallschirmjägerbatallion 500/600" by MUNIN-Verlag, now Postfach 1047 in D-54421 Reinsfeld.
350 pages,230 fotos and documents,
Best regards,

Rudi

Daniel L · Post by **Daniel L** » 08 Apr 2004 17:56

I stumbled upon a photo of SS-Sturmbannführer Siegfried Milius, his German Cross in Gold is visible on the photo.

http://www.geocities.com/ss500600/SS_Fa ... jager.html

Best regards/ Daniel

John P. Moore · Post by **John P. Moore** » 11 Apr 2004 03:26

Patrick Agte informed me today that he does not expect to be finished with "SS-Fallschirmjägerbataillon 500/600" until May at the earliest. I know that it will be an excellent book.

John

Bjørn from Norway · Post by **Bjørn from Norway** » 19 Apr 2004 19:19

Hello!
Paddy Keating, if you have any information about any other Norwegian serving in 500/600 than Gunnar Baardseth or Anders Øvergaard, I would be most interested.

B.

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