Fallschirmjägerbataillon zbV 500 of the Waffen-SS

I found these pics in another forum, dealing with the paras of the Waffen-SS and their Operation "Rösselsprung".
































Regards,
Che.

 

Interesting but a couple of fairly sinister looking ones in there.

 

This operation was important part of myths and stories about ww2 in Yugoslavia.

It seems that opration itself was in reality a rushed job on bad intel becouse of internal bickering between Skorzeny(outsider supported by Berlin) and general Rendulovic (gen. in command). This is one of the reasons that entire operation almost failed.

BTW Up to the war in 1990's in Bosnia museum in Drvar still had entire fuselage construction of DSF-230 glider and undercarriage of L-3 tankette.