Hold on, hold on, hold on...... Guys, you normally do a great job with your research but you messed this one up...... The photo you posted at 9:38 in the Video is NOT Gottlob Berger but the commander of the 3rd SS Division Theodor Eicke....... He is the man who personally shot Ernst Rohm in his prison cell during the night of the long knives..... He was killed February 26 1943 when his observation plane was shot down. They look similar but not the same man.........
Thanks Matt, and good eye. You are correct and not many would know that bit of trivia. Not to pass the buck but let's blame Google as it pulled this photo up on a search for Berger. But again, you are correct.
By my reckoning, a comrade isn't always a friend and a friend not always a comrade. A comrade is a person you fight with. Can trust your life with, but you may not like them. Anyway, that's the way it was explained to me.
Gottlob Berger---In the Spring 2020 issue of Military Heritage magazine is a great article and photo of Gottlob Berger. The Article is "Last Stand in Berlin"..It talks about Berger getting together the last group of Waffen SS to fight the Russians in Berlin. Thank You for your great videos and extensive research that you have done. Jerry
He wasnt in death camps, not once, he wasnt sentenced to 25 years, he was sentenced to ten, served 2/3rds, i.e. 6 and a half. After he wasnt "laying low", he wrote for Nation Europa
9:38 that's a pretty unfortunate confusion, that's Obergruppenführer Theodor Eicke, one of the people directly involved in orchestrating the holocaust, he was a camp inspector, not Obergruppenführer Gottlob, the front lines general
I have a PP as beautiful as this one, only mine was made in the seventies in Ulm and is .22 LR, about the only handgun caliber an ordinary citizen can own in Portugal. I Bought it second hand and it looks unfired. Still, I wouldn’t trade it for a Porsche. Great video!
@Legacy Collectibles. Love your site but I must point out that in the above video at about 9:40 that isn't Berger, it's Obergruppenführer Theodor Eicke who was a member of the Totenkopf or Deaths Head Division. Killed in a plane crash.
Happy Birthday! Nice gift! Berger sorta looks like the old Hollywood character actor Sig Ruman. Google his image from the old Jack Benny picture "To Be or Not To Be." 1942. RU-vid won't let me paste a photo in the comment section.
NOBODY can ever tell me that they didn't know what was going on, I am German and watch some historic Hitler and WW2 vids but I cant imagine anyone except possibly an average citizen not knowing certain things
I have a Walther PPK 7.65 mm serial # 303984K .It has an Eagle with an H under it on the barrel and slide. On the other side it has another # N8A558 under MOD, PPK . I have the Holster that it came with like the ones you showed on your U Tube re PPK,s but there are no markings inside the flap or on the back. I was told that the Canadian soldier who got it off a German Pilot after his plane made a forced landing. I have one Mag with the serial # the same as the PPK. Please advise anything you can tell me about this handgun. Thank you Chris
I'm half German. My mother's old German handwriting looked like that. It is very hard to tell the difference between m, n and u. It could be Ruger or Berger. But I agree, it probably is J Ruger. I had an inlaw named J Ruger.
In Benicia California I went to an antique shop called antiques on first. There they had a letter adressed to Herman Goering talking about the four year plan. I don't know if it was over priced or underpriced but it costs $350. Maybe this will help your business. I went there very recently and I know it is still there.
One more thing it is dated January 1938 signed by ziegler SA brigadierfuhrer. Again I hope this is rare or valuable so you can sell it on legacy collectibles. You can maybe even include it with a gun. I love your channel keep making great videos.
@ghgg you are right; they used it in "Fraktur-Schrift" and in "Sütterlin" ; and just found out sometimes also in the " oldish Blockschrift " too; ashaming that I did not know, but, I am 60 and I have never seen it written in Blockschrift like on the Walther
During the War Heinrich Himmler gave an order to SS-Brigadeführer Walter Schellenberg head of Sicherheitsdienst Amt IV Ausland-SD to round up Jews and offer them a chance to buy their own freedom. Some 7,000 Jews were bussed to the Swiss border and marched across it in a one time mercy mission. At the Nuremberg trials Schellenberg was a chief witness against many of the highest ranking Nazis that were charged for war crimes. As he was a more ardent Catholic than a Nazi it became known that he was a spoke in the wheels of the SS-SD operations in Nazi controlled Europe and abroad. There were many anti-Semitic Nazis that took a pragmatic approach to the NSDAP's policy of the Final Solution. Another one of them, was SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer Josef "Sepp" Dietrich who would continuously turn away, from the direct vicinity of his front line Waffen-SS troops during Operation Barbarossa Einsatzgruppen kill squads. These squads, under the direction of SS-DD Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, and later his successor Ernst Karltenbrunner, were tasked with liquidating Jews and Communist leaders in areas that were captured during the war in the Eastern front. Sepp Dietrich although a die-hard Nazi thought of the Final Solution as a mad overstepping of rational behavior by the Nazi hierarchy, and wanted nothing to do with it, mostly because he believed that victory was never sure.
talking about a stooge... please read the caption before you pluck an image from wikipedia... that is Theodor Eicke. (@ 9:41) Also what you call " having a little fun" comes across as shady ethics to me...making light of warcriminals This puts your info in to discredit.
''Jn treuer Kameradschaft'' is orthographically wrong. IN TREUER FREUNDSCHAFT would be correct. Using the J at the beginning ? Which language did the embellisher of that gun try to imitate? And who wrote the first P in PP with an electric scribe? Shelling out ANY kind of money for this piece of work will result in later headaches.
First of all Freundschaft has not the same meaning as Kameradschaft in german. The way the upper case letter of „i“ is written as a "J" is absolutely correct and still used to this day. Sometimes we do a little straight line above the „J“ as a serif, but that's rather uncommon. As a german I can say this engraving is orthographically authentic.
🤔 if im not wrong this ppk pistol was the service gun of Danish police untill about 1990 i think it was taken out of service because it was no good and police was better of throwing a rock after a crock then fireing this gun ... There where so many problems with this gun jammming up all the time failing to eject, and they could hit NOTHING with this gun it would shoot left an right ,up and down just as it liked to do allmost as it gad its own life ... It was changed out for the glock gun that danish police have Today.
