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  • Probably the most desirable and certainly the most copied of all Waffen-SS Posters. SS-Hauptsturmführer and Professor Ottomar Anton (1895-1976) used later Knight’s Cross Holder Klemens Behler as model for this Dutch Recruitment Poster in 1941. Behler was at the … Continue reading →

    • Many Third Reich Posters were also used on postcards, leaflets, recruiting booklets etc. SS-Hauptsturmführer and Professor Anton designs were no exception. This design was used to attract recruits to the Gerbirgstruppen der Waffen-SS (Mountain Troops of the Waffen-SS). • Europe is under attack! … Continue reading →

    • SS-Hauptsturmführer and Professor Ottomar Anton, one of the most prolific Waffen-SS Poster designers during the Third Reich – he died in 1976: Berufen zum Kampf – Hüter des Friedens (The Mission of this Struggle is to Guard the Peace). • • • Waffen-SS Recruiting Posters … Continue reading →

    • This straightforward Recruiting Poster was to attract members of the Hitlerjugend to the Waffen-SS, especially the 12.SS-Panzer-Division “Hitlerjugend”. The caption reads: You too. • Recruitment Poster making an appeal to men in Reich Labour Service (Reichsarbeitsdienst) to join the Waffen-SS. • Recruitment … Continue reading →