SS Soldbuch Gebirgsjäger

[Absolut]

Visited a friend recently and he showed me a SS Soldbuch he was being given by a local farmer. I don't know much about those, but he said I can take pictures of it if I want to ... so find those attached!

Edit: replaced in a larger size .. to allow reading it. I have them much higher, but wanted to do as good as possible.

 

[Absolut]

Second (and last) set of pictures.

Edit: also replaced with ones in a higher resolution

 

[deadeye18]

That's a great find,thanks for the pictures,I'm sure PeterU will be able to work it all out.

 

[Peter U]

Hi Absolut,

Is that local farmer a reenactor?
This Soldbuch is a reproduction, the type used by reenactors, nothing is authentic.


Cheers,
Peter

 

[Absolut]

Hi Peter, by which things would you identify this? He was given this Soldbuch for free, so I suppose no bad intentions were with it..

 

[matthanne]

Am not sure if it matters one way or the other, but I noticed that the religion was marked 'gottgl.' which means he would have believed in a Christian religion. In my experience this is not necessarily a positive factor for an SS troop to concede. I wonder how many SS-SB were so marked?

 

[Peter U]

Hi Peter, by which things would you identify this? He was given this Soldbuch for free, so I suppose no bad intentions were with it..

By all things.
Like I wrote in my previous post, nothing is authentic, not the picture, not the entries, not even the Soldbuch itself.
The stamps are fake and the entries are written by someone that tries but can't really write in Sütterlin script.
Place it under a black light and I'am pretty sure it will glow.
This version is one that is sold to reenactors, just do a quick google search for reenactment equipment and you'll find plenty of empty versions of this one.
These aren't produced to fool Soldbuch collectors, so I don't see any harm in them, they are pretty easy to spot once you have seen an Original.

 

[Peter U]

Am not sure if it matters one way or the other, but I noticed that the religion was marked 'gottgl.' which means he would have believed in a Christian religion. In my experience this is not necessarily a positive factor for an SS troop to concede. I wonder how many SS-SB were so marked?

Yes, they were.
These reenactor Soldbucher are Always filled with entries copied of known originals.
But in most reenactor Soldbucher the entries don't make sense because the reenactor wants everything to be in it.

 

[mrfarb]

What Reenactor in his right mind doesn't want to be issued MP40 AND MP44 to go with his Luger and Iron Cross.

 

[Hambone]

Yes, but why would he give himself "Tripper" or gonorrhea as part of his medical history?

 

[mrfarb]

Funny you say that. I did the soldbuchs for the German unit I was in years ago. I often times actually gave the nerds in the unit std medical codes in their soldbuchs. I once gave a guy the medical code for "suspected of faking illness"

 

[Absolut]

Good to know that! Will tell him and see if we can get black light!