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I recenly saw a film entitled 'Talvisota',(Winter War),a Finnish production,about the 1939-1940 war with Russia.It is very realistic,it seems,in most parts,(though the last sequence is a little surreal),and the equpiment,uniforms look very correct,even the Russian T 26 tanks.Any comments,or know of ...

...consisted of the following:RSHA,WHVA,RuSHA,SIPO,(Security Police:Gestapo,SD),and ORPO,)Order Police:Gendarmerie,Schutzpolizei,later Zolldienst,Wasserpolizei,even Teno,Techinal Office,{waterworks,electric,gasworks},SS-VT,(subdepartment,administratively,SS-TK:this later became the Waffen SS and Tot...

I am trying to detrmine the branch issue and possible date of an 1884 reichrevolver which has SS runes,(which have been authenticated).What was the VK armed with? Were the VK commanded by SS? Possibly,it is early pre war,as I have read that SS-VT and SS-TK were often given obsolete weapons as the We...

I know in Austrian provinces towards the war;s end,these units were drawn up from local SA cadre's,armed and militarised,and both fought in combat roles and trrained Volksturm units,but that is allI know.I do not know units,or if they were active throughout the Reich during this period

AllI van add is that the Gestapo preexistd the Third Reich,(GESTAPA--Geheime Polizei At-Secret Police Office),and was a STATE security agaency,similiar to US Secret Service or etc.The SD,formed under Heydrich in the early thirtie's,was the PARTY secret intelligience agency,and initially spied on and...

Well,I have two M1879 Reichrevolver's,one is indeed Spangenberger&Sauer,and the other is Schilling&Schilling--they are sort of panoramic engraved with Caital S's.This one I am trying to idenitfy was made at Erfurt in 1893,and the 'SS' are runes,much like on my KZ Luger.I know the ammunition ...

Hello.I have an 1883 manufactured Reichrevolver,1884,which,I was told,was a Volksturm issue weapon.It has SS runes stamped into the buttstrap,above the earlier Imperial stamps.THe SS stams look real,as the width and depth of the stamps look correct,and the steel in the valleys of the stamps show tar...