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long_tom
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Posted: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 - 02:38 AM UTC
I bought the set, and have the Osprey book German Police Units in World War Two, and the kits shows blue-uniformed firemen while the book says that the blue uniforms only applied until 1938, replaced by Police gray-green. Seeing that gray-green would seem a poor choice for actually fighting a fire (which the kit depicts), what's the story with the blue?
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Posted: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 - 04:20 AM UTC
Tom,
Go with the blue tunic and black trousers. Andrew Mollo's "German Uniforms of WW2" states that the city fire brigades weren't unified as part of the police until 1938, when they received this uniform. Don't know where the grey comes from. To back this up, he shows female personnel under training in 1944, they are wearing a grey overall, but the instructor is clearly wearing the blue/black uniform. Part of the difficulty in fire brigade clothing, is that so many members of other organisations, e.g.HJ were co-opted into service in the fire brigades. The regular members wore the blue/black uniform.
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Posted: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 - 06:31 AM UTC

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Tom,
Go with the blue tunic and black trousers. Andrew Mollo's "German Uniforms of WW2" states that the city fire brigades weren't unified as part of the police until 1938, when they received this uniform. Don't know where the grey comes from. To back this up, he shows female personnel under training in 1944, they are wearing a grey overall, but the instructor is clearly wearing the blue/black uniform. Part of the difficulty in fire brigade clothing, is that so many members of other organisations, e.g.HJ were co-opted into service in the fire brigades. The regular members wore the blue/black uniform.


Thanks! Too bad the book was so vague about how actual firefighting teams were dressed.
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