Occupation zone Sachsen Polizei - DDR

mil-archive · **Posted:** Sat Aug 20, 2011 1:14 am

I have put online an album here that shows some early sachsen occupation zone polizei and volkspolizei :

http://www.militaria-archive.com/Albums ... index.html

The WW2 era pictures include bomb damaged Dessau, a decorated (wounded) Luftwaffe veteran in field camouflage & Schutzpolizei & Schupo motor cycle rider, assorted Panzer, Luftwaffe & Heer troops. Pictures showing Heer soldiers in Bulgaria posing for formal group portraits with Bulgarian national army troops at the Black Sea (Varna). The pictures continue through to the the immediate post-war period of Soviet Occupation in Dessau (1946). These communist occupation era pictures show rare early East German Occupation Zone Sachsen Polizei uniforms (pre Volkspolizei), including formal portraits, group picture with hounds & communist badge wearing NSU motorcycle rider. Occupation zone Sachsen Polizei were from June 1946 under the German Administration of Interior (DVdI) through October 1949 when the Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR) was established along with the DVdI being renamed to the Ministry of Interior (MdI). Also shown is a 1955 Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR) cultural/propaganda event believed to be in Dessau. This event is captured in a series of candid photographs, visible in the background are communist & Lenin portraits on the walls. It includes a propaganda parade which contained several floats, one depicting concentration camp inmates behind barbed wire being taunted by a SS uniformed guard. Also shown is the leisure boat ‘Maxim Gorky’ & the East Berlin Gedenkstätte der Sozialisten Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery memorial. Other locations include Herrlicher Waldweg, Stendal (in Saxony-Anhalt) & Sommerfreude.

Here are a few of the uniform shots :

mil-archive · **Posted:** Sat Aug 20, 2011 1:16 am

(pic labelled Polizei 1946 Dessau)

Recycled uniforms

mil-archive · **Posted:** Sat Aug 20, 2011 1:16 am

A scary sight !

mil-archive · **Posted:** Sat Aug 20, 2011 1:17 am

Another cannibalised uniform :

Ian · **Posted:** Sun Aug 21, 2011 9:44 pm

This I really like!
I love seeing related history to my neighbourhood here in Leipzig.
Where did find this super album ?

Great share and thanks.
Ian

Ian · **Posted:** Sun Aug 21, 2011 9:45 pm

mil-archive wrote:

Another cannibalised uniform :

Is that really a wartime panzer tunic?
Ian

mil-archive · **Posted:** Fri Sep 30, 2011 2:03 am

Hi Ian, just saw this reply now, I had to reload my pc a while back and lost things like passwords and so on, so it's taking a while to get back up to speed. I picked this up on ebay a while back & yep I believe it's a Heer tunic & cap, there are other pics showing de-nazified LW beltbuckles in use so I think in the transition period they re-used whatever was available.

Ian · **Posted:** Tue Oct 04, 2011 7:19 pm

hi Gerard.
if you need any help with your account on pixpast, just let me know.
also when i have my money all in good order, i would really think about making you a offer for this album.
It is really nice regional history for where i am living.
as the big business men say... we will talk !
best wishes.
Ian

Ian · **Posted:** Wed Nov 09, 2011 10:01 pm

124cav wrote:

very interesting photos,thanks for sharing

do you have any info relating to horse mounted police or military units in post war "East" Germany?

that sounds interesting ?
Ian

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