Dear Micha alias Hans, please stay on topic, which is: SS-Division "Handschar" photos. If you have some images to share or ask questions about, please do, but make sure to source them properly, as is required by the forum rules.Hans1906 wrote: ↑11 Mar 2022 19:16Dear Ivan,
you should react calmly about these photo copies, that would be my advice.
I remember the first photos of the "Handschar" in the early 1970s, my friend T. owned a book on the subject.
The friend was in search of the subject in later years, already in the very early 1970s, the boy lost his direction.
Having taken hunting trips to Yugoslavia with his father, T. shot the first wild boar at the age of 10 years there.
There were contacts here in Germany to former relatives, one or the other "Fez" appeared here as well, and ended up in the well-known German collections.
Even then extremely expensive "Militaria", untraceable for a simple collector, even then every piece of "Handschar" was outside the price limits, too expensive.
I remember German collectors from those years who kept these fezes in glass showcases, dust-free, touching them was forbidden!
Sick, totally sick, but it sure has changed little.
I found a very small early 18th century liquor bottle in the neighborhood today, Bohemian glass, hand blown and masterfully engraved, a real treasure that someone wanted to get rid of...
Hans
If you wish to share your private civilian memories from the 1970s, please use the Lounge section: viewforum.php?f=22
And try not to misinterpret the tone of messages which remained polite despite the fact they had to be repeated
Cheers & welcome back to the forum,
Ivan
