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These photos interesting have seemed to me. But has not found on a forum of a special discussion for similar photos. I ask the admin of a forum to correct my mistake if photos should be in the other place.

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Excellent Photos! Always fascinating to see period images such as these. Thank you for sharing them with us.

Best regards
FJS

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Russian partisans wearing their NEW (GERMAN) daggers in the summer of 45?
Just a guess!

These officers is not partisans. They are winners!

Ilya :
YES, Precisely! Partisan a member of a group that has taken up armed resistance against an occupying enemy force, are only thought of in the most positive of terms especially when it comes to the defeat of Nazism!
Proud Nazi killers wearing THEIR hard won daggers! is what I wanted to say!
John

Thanks John!

They sure as hell did did not take a long time for them to remove the eagles from the handles.

PJ

These are not partisans but members of the Soviet Army. I guess the US Army did not have the monopoly of war trophies

Sure would like the dagger in the first photo.Nice picture thanks for showing.

This thread got a little sidetracked so I removed a couple of posts.

The pictures are very intersting. I hope you have more to post.

Regards,
Dave

Not SA, but intrresting

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These two latest photos from Ilya are intriguing. In the first one the two men seem to be Resistance fighters, with the one in the foreground armes with the Russian Moisin-Nagant rifle complete with spike bayonet, but wearing a belt bearing a GW98 service bayonet. Nice combination of looted armament together with stock issue Russian material.

In the second photo, taken after some joint US-USSR Military ceremony (all the Russians are wearing their best dress uniforms and newly issued campaign medals). Judging by the shape of the blade, the Russian appears to be showing the American a Soviet issue Shasqua sword, although the knot on it doesn't look like the normal Russian know for this sword.

Nice, interesting image to see. Thanks for sharing it.

FJS

Though me constantly accuse that I copy another's photos and I show them on this forum, I should show all collectors two more unique photos. Them too have placed on one of Russian forums.

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Nice pictures. I guess I shouldn't be surprised they removed the grip eagle. A lot of GIs removed the diamond from HJ's or replaced the grips with clear ?lucite and put a picture of their girl underneath.

I think if it were me, I'd leave the dagger intact, but maybe not...back then, they weren't rare or as valuable!

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I guess the Russian army liked the daggers so much that they took them up in the uniform...LOL

These are great photos, very interesting - thanks for posting them !

Jonathan

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Wow! There is a real treasure of a photo in there!
The Social Welfare Officer dagger being worn with the Social Welfare Hangers AND you can see the ROUND holes on the scabbard.
Not exactly a period German "wearing" photo but close enough--and the only photo of it in wear I have seen or know of.

Ilya, can you still buy the stuff from the vets or their families? I guess it wasn't "political correct" to keep the "fashist" stuff at home in the days of "uncle" Stalin, so many of those war souvenirs must have been destroyed.

Unfortunately, now to buy something interesting from successors of veterans very difficultly. The majority of successors stores subjects as memory. And basically everyone think, that they have very high cost. As a rule, the majority of trophies after war has been strongly spoiled and basically used in a life.