-renapd- opened this issue on Sep 28, 2002 ยท 50 posts
STORM3 posted Sat, 28 September 2002 at 8:25 PM
The officer depicted is wearing an Iron Cross which was a field award (thus must be a battle award from WW1) and a Ritter Kreutz (Knights Cross worn at the throat) which, if memory serves me was, the highest WW2 field award of the Wehrmacht, Luftwaffe, Panzer Truppen, Kriegsmarine and the SS. In addition the uniform colour is more akin to the pre-war SA (Sturm Abteilung-Brownshirts) lead by Earnst Rohm which was eliminated in the pre-war period during the "night of the long knives" 1936?. Apologies if some of the details are a little hazy as it has been a long time since I studied this stuff. I cannot remember seeing the coloured stripe above the left jacket pocket on any picture of a German uniform of the period, it is more akin to US and UK uniforms. Otherwise a fine model which I look forward to trying out. Regards SRORM