11 November 2019

0450 | Photo | SS-Division "Reich" (mot.)



The Führer's birthday celebration in Vršac. Smiling officers of the SS Division "Reich" posing with an Orthodox priest after the celebration of the Führer's 52nd birthday in Vršac (the priest did not participate in the German ceremony). The corpulent officer in the centre is SS-Hauptsturmführer Günther-Eberhardt Wisliceny, commander of the 8th Company, 11th SS Regiment (future holder of the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords, the last commander of the SS Regiment "Deutschland" and younger brother of war criminal Dieter Wisliceny).

Text: Ivan Ž.

Photographer: George Galweit, 691st Propaganda Company.
Date: 20 April 1941.
Location: Vršac, Yugoslavia.
Original caption: unknown.

Sources: ECPAD, DAT 344 L13; eBay, buymuc, 192754954977; "Günther-Eberhardt Wisliceny & Dieter Wisliceny", Axis History Forum, 06.08.2002, p. 1. (Photo restoration: Ivan Ž.)

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Proslava firerovog rođendana u Vršcu. Nasmejani oficiri SS-divizije "Rajh" poziraju sa pravoslavnim sveštenikom po završetku proslave firerovog 52. rođendana u Vršcu (sveštenik u nemačkoj svečanosti nije učestvovao). Korpulentni oficir u sredini je SS-hauptšturmfirer Ginter Eberhart Visliceni, komandir 8. čete 11. SS-puka (budući nosilac Viteškog krsta sa hrastovim lišćem i mačevima, poslednji komandant SS-puka "Nemačka" i mlađi brat ratnog zločinca Ditera Vislicenija).

Tekst: Ivan Ž.

Fotograf: Georg Galvajt, 691. propagandna četa.
Datum: 20. april 1941.
Mesto: Vršac, Jugoslavija.
Originalni natpis: nepoznat.

Izvori: ECPAD, DAT 344 L13; eBay, buymuc, 192754954977; "Günther-Eberhardt Wisliceny & Dieter Wisliceny", Axis History Forum, 06.08.2002, str. 1. (Foto-restauracija: Ivan Ž.)

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