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Just thought this is a cool photo that someone else may enjoy. German Police early 1920's before the Nazis.
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Police? Are you sure? It looks like a military unit piece, things were that bad for police before the war? Scary!
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On June
28, 1919, the Treaty of Versailles was signed by the Allies and was ratified by
the German democratic government. Under the terms of the treaty, the German
Army was limited to 100,000 men and was forbidden to have submarines or
military aircraft.. The often
told story is that after WW1, the German Army came through the barracks and
took everybody's military uniform.
Another group came through and fitted everybody in German police
uniforms. The
number of police swelled as police were assigned to be housing inspectors,
factory guards, railroad guards and the largest group were the plane spotters,
like a civil air patrol. Goering was
head of the Luftwaffe or the Air Force.
Around 1930 he took over all of the police organizations and made them
display swastikas on their uniforms and/or helmets. The
totenkopf, or death-head was borrowed from earlier Prussian artwork. earlier Prussian artwork. |
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You may be right. The picture was sold to me as being the German police form the 1920's. It may be earlier. As long as I am posting non-Auto Mag stuff, here is a true story I wrote last night.....enjoy. A day in Turkey I woke up early to try to get in and out
of the chow hall and still get to the Recreation Center before the deadline of
8:30am. The recreation center offered
weekend tours to various tourist locations here in southern Turkey. I had earlier been on one of their tours to
Konya, Turkey for the 700th anniversary of Mevlana with the Whirling Dervishes
and all. I was working in Adana Turkey
at Incirlik Air Force Base. There were
three of us from Torrejon Air Base in Spain.
We were in Turkey to support the electronic countermeasures (ECM) systems
on a squadron of F-4 Phantom jets stationed there. It was Saturday morning and Jerry was to be
on stand-by if he was needed. It was the 20th of July,1974 and I found
myself walking to meet the bus for the Castle by the Sea tour. Just as I got to the bus it took off and left
me standing there. The man in charge
told me that the tour had been cancelled.
It seems that the Turks had attacked Cyprus that morning. They had unfortunately used the beach next to
Castle by the Sea to launch their navel attack on Cyprus. No Tour today. I had heard a lot of fighter jets that
morning and could still hear them taking-off as I walked back to the
barracks. After a few minutes, a guy
came into the barracks and said that our stand-by person was to report to
duty......immediately. The sergeant and myself tried to wake Jerry ,
but he was passed out cold from excessive drinking the night before. The sergeant, Larry, told me to get into
uniform and report to work.
I got a ride over to the flight-line
where the Avionics Maintenance Shops were.
I walked into the ECM area of the room when a cluster of people moved
into me. Each one was a higher rank than
the last one. Things went quiet when one
of them finally said, we have four Phantoms on the Victor Alert Pad. I need to set their ECM Pods to war-time
frequencies.
It is not often that I say exactly the
right thing at the right time. I looked
at the group and motioned some of them out of the way of my view of the
safe. I pointed to the safe and I said, I need and officer
with a top-secret clearance and the combination to that safe. A person I had never seen before got down on
his knees and worked the combination to open the safe. I told him to take the book out that is
marked top-secret and follow the instructions.
He read for a minute or two and said, grab your tools and we will all go
out to the VA-Pad, together. The Victor
Alert Pad consisted of four single aircraft cement hangers in a fenced-in area
at the end of the run-way.
Once we were at the first aircraft, I
popped a panel off of the side of the ECM Pod to expose about ten rotary
switches. Each switch goes from 0 to
9. The officer read off, switch four to
position three. Switch five to position
7 etc., etc. We set the war-time
frequencies into the pods of the four Phantoms while the Munitions Maintenance
guys placed a live nuke on the center-line of each fighter.
We were all ready to go back to the shop
when it was announced that as long as there is an active alert, we had to be
available to secure our equipment. That
went for the MMS guys too. We were all
escorted to a pilots hide-a-way. It was
a bar set in a dug-out so it had a low-profile.
We sat there for several hours.
We were told that President Nixon had called a nuclear alert because he
was afraid that the Soviet Union would come to the defense of Cyprus and maybe
bomb our base as this is where the Turks launched their air attack.
Late in the day we were called off of
nuclear alert. I scrambled all the
switches on the four pods and marked them to go back to Spain for an
inspection. After I got back to the
barracks, I was told of a talk that the commander of the base would be giving about
the Turks attack on Cyprus. I attended
the talk. The commander was basically
reassuring the families living on the base that everything was going to be
ok He told of the US just selling the
Greeks some new fighters. I believe they
were F-100's. He said that the planes
could reach our base but wouldn't have enough fuel to get back to Greece. The commander added that the Greeks could do
an air-to-air refuel but we sold them the wrong nozzles so they couldn't.
Jerry got into big trouble for not coming
into work when he was called upon. I
think he kept it to just an Article 15 but he said he stopped drinking after
that. Jerry served in the Air Force for over thirty years before he retired. Added: The Turks had increased security at our entrance point to the area where our Phantom jets were. We were briefed on the new procedure. When we drove up to the US Air Force guard shack they waved us through. When we got to the Turkish Air Force guard shack, we had to shine a flashlight through a colored piece of cellophane. The chilling part was that if you did not show the flashlight shining through the cellophane, of the proper color of the day, the Turkish guards were ordered to shoot on sight every person in the vehicle. This didn't last very long but it made for a very sober crew. |
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