Early pipes like yours have vulcanized rubber stems. When they get old, they turn a unsavory yellow/brown. You can polish it with something like VIM (liquid abbrasive household cleaner) to turn it back to gleaming darkbrown/black. Nice set of kit!
not totally true that was panzerschokolade which was issued to panzer crews. normal chocolate called scho ka kola contained high ammounts of caffeine. they did also serve meth in tabs in the form of pervitin
The two white stripes on the socks which you don't comment on were, as with issue gloves, an indication of their size. For example two rings, size 5 - 7, three rings, size 8 -9.
I noticed but I did not know. Of course there had to be a purpose, they weren't going to make the socks more expensive and time consuming to make for nothing! With the Germans, there's always a reason for everything, unfathomable and twisted as if may be...
big news. epic militaria have aww2 German pocket litter section of the store now. good for any UK reenactors. might be good for international reenactors, but postage and import might be very expensive. great video
As the war progressed, I bet the average German soldier could consider himself very lucky if he could keep 20% of what we're seeing here! If you have the chance, try to visit the Kyiv War Museum in Ukraine - maybe it's wiser to wait first for the war to end - in which you will be able to see all these items in original condition plus many, many more Wehrmacht and Soviet gear. Possibly it will be the very first time you see these items in color! Worth a visit. The Museum is located inside the base of the gigantic "Motherland calls" monument, located close to the river. Outside there is a large display of Tanks, military vehicles and combat aircraft, and a very short distance away there is a dedicated Afghanistan War Museum. You'll be impressed.
I've been to the Chernobyl museum in Kyiv, they turned it into a current war relics museum of captured/ destroyed Russian equipment. I put a video on my channel.
its missing some "Pervitin" tablets.. they was issued but later soldiers was asking their relatives to send some with the next packet from home also a german army/trench lighter - there is 2 different models.
@@JacobA6464 Nope, it was actually not uncommon. I’ve read some interviews where the soldiers have mentioned having a bible among other things with them
@@JacobA6464 hitler referred to himself as a Christian many times, like half of German propaganda was “good western Christians crusading against the godless bolsheviks”
Russian stuff could have easily been used in Normandy, a lot of divisions saw action on both fronts. Also lots of goods that have been captured was re-issued to the German army, so I'd say its highly possible.
Where do you keep that fat toilet paper roll lol? Everything else is small or flat so they could fit somewhere, but the toiler paper roll is neither small nor flat
Mate that little bag you keep your shaving gear in, In short my great uncle was in the Wheremacht, he told me it was used to tie round your neck to eat sausage and hard tak in to eat while on the march.
This isn't really related to the video but I could try to make you a channel art because currently yours is just a picture, if I do where could I send you it?
You are talks about nazy soldiers, who killing civilians, kids? Who destroy thousands of villages and some burning with people? Who bombing cities up to burning to ashes?
What I keep in my pockets is: A linnen towel to wipe your hands with etc, Pocket knife, Cigarret tin(I don't smoke though), And some other things ofc but you already mentioned that.
@@Handle_Deez_Nutz alright I will take your word for it, I'm just a little suspicious as to why it would be made up - It's not like those post-war Czech(?) suspenders which already existed, why make up an entire brand? Any leads on that?
One thing People sleep on is a Mess Knife, a simple captured GI Mess knife will help tremendously when you have to cut some food item you dont want to come in contact with your breadbag knife that has been cutting wire, dirt, clothing, bandages etc etc
You should check what pipe maker that is. I see a white dot on the stem. If its a Dunhill its highly sought after. Especially if you clean her up a bit. 50s and 60s Dunhills go for 300 plus easy once polished up.
They stopped issuing that in may of 1941 I believe. However it was still available for private purchase but highly discouraged because the withdrawal makes you literally useless as a soldier.
HBT uniforms are very thin and are good for hot environments. Not to mention Afrikakorps is a good thing to reenact for hot environments since as the name implies, were deployed in Africa. Basically standard uniform just thinned and olive instead of fieldgrey. Hope this helped.
historically correct wallets are sold by "Verlag Kopf", in Europe: verlagkopf.com/product/leather-wallet, as a reproduction of "Ersatzledermaterial" (a leather copy material maybe due to shortage of actual real leather at the time).
