Seeking info about SS-Fallschirmjäger-Bataillon 500.
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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
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Source: http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic. ... sc&start=0
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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?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)?
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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.
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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,
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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
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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
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http://www.geocities.com/ss500600/SS_Fa ... jager.html
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