In sum, if you’re seeking a super deep-dive Palinckx has you covered or more accurately, surrounded! Winter Uniforms an outstanding reference work, highly recommended.

Much pictured material is from the author’s collection, with many contributions shared by museum curators, archivists and fellow collectors. Palinckx even pulls together a wealth of data and photos of fabrics, buttons, drawstring variations, suspenders, quilted versus padded, reversible versus non-reversible, white cotton versus dark rayon linings, and a great deal more.Ĭlearly, all this lore is a great boon to collectors, military uniform students, museum curators, modelers, archivists and the simply curious.

This pattern, the author notes, was meant to replace all the services’ previous ones. There is even a nod to (and period in-wear photos of!) 1945’s infrared-defeating and stupendously rare “ Liebermuster” uniform. Likewise valuable are complementary short sections on special SS Panzer and Luftwaffe work coveralls, and ancillaries like hoods, balaclavas, mittens, colored ID arm and ranks strips etc.

Using predominately modern color photographs, Volume 2 covers SS camouflage M44 Drill Uniforms, Fallschirmjger Uniform, Panzer Uniforms, Winter Clothing, SS-VT/Waffen-SS Zeltbahnen, and concludes with a detailed look at each camouflage pattern including samples. For the collector and historian, I’m sure there are lots of “clues” and many blanks filled in, questions answered. This is part two of a comprehensive two-volume reference that shows all the camouflage uniforms of the Waffen-SS. Discrete chapters cover the different branches with their many distinctions and similarities, large and small.

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