#stosstruppen

[milesislost]

finished my first trench crusade mini

[hiawathab]

Stosstruppen 1935 

[pinturas-gran-guerra]

1917 11 27 Cambrai - Stosstruppen - Peter Dennis

[redarmyscreaming]

The Germans may have fabricated as many as 400,000 suits of body armor in the Great War. Photographic evidence is available but not common. Usually, the armor was issued to troops exposed in the front lines or assault troops. With the holstered pistol, this German is probably a machine gunner or a Stosstruppen.

[hjmarseille]

The holder of a famous Prussian military name: Baron Hans von Manteuffel, leader of the Stosstruppen of the Baltische Landeswehr, would fall at the head of his men on 22 May 1919 in the assault of Riga. His funeral in the captured Latvian capital had the character of a Teutonic Knights ceremony. The three stars on his collar are the rank badge of (presumably) captain; they are four pointed, a peculiarity of this Freikorps.

Photo and caption featured in Osprey Elite 76 The German Freikorps 1918-23 by Carlos Caballero Jurado

[henskelion]

more of them Dorf boys

[hiawathab]

Bavarian Stosstruppen - 1917

[pinturas-gran-guerra]

1917 11 27 Cambrai, Stosstruppen - Peter Dennis