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Is there any goup that reenact 7 SS Prinz Evgen division ?


Oskar

not that i know of but would love to see one or start one up!

It was a long time ago, but didn't / doesn't Richard Underwood's group portray the 7th?

I think Mr Underwood did have a group but that was some time ago. I have a panzer wrap done up as Prinz Eugen.

SS-Gebirgsjager reenactments are pretty hard to do on a big scale (platoon size)
Panzergrenadier units are so much easier to form.
SS-GJs require some rare items to find like the Gebirgs rucksack, Styrian gaiters, Bergschuhe.....just to name a few. Nobody really makes repros of them neither.
Offcourse there alot of wartime pics of southern SS-GJ wearing regular low boots with no gaiters whatsoever.

If you find a small squad of really dedicated people with good equipment you'll be lucky.
Overall, 7th SS and 13th SS units are my top 2 that Id want to re-enact. Very fascinating and unique.

my 2 cents

I saw that unit in Tjechie.

Rich and I along with Jim Brown were part of the Prinz Eugen when we started re-enacting twenty years ago. A tidy group it was too on a good day we could field 16, run by Dave Mathewes the insignia King, sadly morphed into the Hermann Goering, became somwhat flakey and then slowly fizzled out.
I still have my tunic and mountain boots, I think I have some pictures somwhere.

Sturmschar wrote:Rich and I along with Jim Brown were part of the Prinz Eugen when we started re-enacting twenty years ago. A tidy group it was too on a good day we could field 16, run by Dave Mathewes the insignia King, sadly morphed into the Hermann Goering, became somwhat flakey and then slowly fizzled out.
I still have my tunic and mountain boots, I think I have some pictures somwhere.

I remember those days in a field back of a pub in Marsh Baldon.

How funny you remember that one Jon, Rich and I were reminiscing about Marsh Baldon this weekend. The happy day's before people got so drearily serious about it all

Sturmschar wrote: How funny you remember that one Jon, Rich and I were reminiscing about Marsh Baldon this weekend. The happy day's before people got so drearily serious about it all

The innocence of reenactment back then

My 7th wss Prinz Eugen panzer impression

Nice impression of an interesting unit - do you have evidence for the Edelweiss being worn on the Panzer blacks ?

No, I haven`t seen any photo of it yet- only the description:

https://books.google.si/books?id=NHIQxs ... rm&f=false

Are you planning any other Prinz Eugen impressions , to go with your Handschar ?

Mods , any chance of getting Prinz Evgen changed to Prinz Eugen ? It's starting to irritate .... Ta