SS-Sturmmann and NCO candidate Hugo Kemps, a Dutchman born in Willebroek, Belgium, poses for a souvenir photo in a Bosnian village, displaying his big wristwatch, "SS War Correspondent" (SS-Kriegsberichter) cuff title and mountain troops badge (edelweiss). As a member of the SS War Correspondent Battalion (from November 1943 on: SS Regiment "Kurt Eggers"), this 23-year-old lad was attached to the "Prinz Eugen" Division, taking some of the most memorable photographs of this unit. For "exemplary conduct before the enemy, in operations in the Sutjeska valley and before Pelješac", he was awarded the Bronze Medal of Poglavnik Ante Pavelić for Bravery. He survived the war and died at the age of 82.
Text: Ivan Ž.
Photographer: unknown.
Date: December 1943.
Location: unknown, Yugoslavia.
Original caption: unknown.
Sources: National Archives, 242-JRP-40-54-71; ibid., RG 242, T354, r. 180, 3833635; Nationaal Archief, 900-3414; eBay, e3f43; "Hugo Florimond Justine Raymond Pierre Kemps", kemps.voorouders.net; "SS-Standarte 'Kurt Eggers'", EHRI. (Photo restoration: Ivan Ž.)
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SS-šturmman i kandidat za podoficira Hugo Kemps, Holanđanin rodom iz Vilebruka u Belgiji, pozira za uspomenu u jednom bosanskom selu, pokazujući svoj veliki ručni sat, traku s natpisom "ratni dopisnik SS-a" (SS-Kriegsberichter) i oznaku brdskih jedinica (runolist). Kao pripadnik Ratnodopisničkog bataljona SS-a (od novembra 1943: SS-puk "Kurt Egers"), ovaj dvadesettrogodišnji mladić bio je priključen diviziji "Princ Ojgen", i autor je nekih od najupečatljivijih fotografija ove jedinice. Za "uzorno držanje pred neprijateljem, u borbama u dolini Sutjeske i pred Pelješcem", odlikovan je Bronzanom medaljom poglavnika Ante Pavelića za hrabrost. Preživeo je rat i preminuo u 82. godini.
Tekst: Ivan Ž.
Fotograf: nepoznat.
Datum: decembar 1943.
Mesto: nepoznato, Jugoslavija.
Originalni natpis: nepoznat.
Izvori: National Archives, 242-JRP-40-54-71; ibid., RG 242, T354, r. 180, 3833635; Nationaal Archief, 900-3414; eBay, e3f43; "Hugo Florimond Justine Raymond Pierre Kemps", kemps.voorouders.net; "SS-Standarte 'Kurt Eggers'", EHRI. (Foto-restauracija: Ivan Ž.)
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