Description
(Photo / Denmark) Luftwaffe Sommerkorpset / SS Schalburg Korpset photo + token Fliegerhorst Kommandantur Aalborg-West.
The size of the photo is approximately 9 x 6 centimeters, the diameter of the token/coin is approximately 3 centimeters. The token bears number #236.
On the front of the photo is written: “Seefliegerhorst Aalborg 31.5.1944”, and on the back is written: “Wachmann O.C. Sjöberg “Post II”. “Seefliegerhorst Aalborg Dänemark”.
Extremely rare to find photo and token. Lieterally ANYTHING regarding the danish Sommerkorpset is rare to find!
A bit backgroundinformation:
The Sommerporpset was part of the danish SS Schalburg Korps. The Sommerkorpset were men clothed in Luftwaffe uniforms which were painted dark blue and with black painted (german) helmets with Luftwaffe decals. The Sommerkorpset aka Wachkorps der Luftwaffe in Dänemark, was used to keep watch at among others things airfields and for the war important buildings and objects. As such and also operating often at night, the uniforms were needed to be dark for nightwork.
Background:
https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sommerkorpset
The Summer Corps ( Wachkorps der Luftwaffe in Dänemark ) was the Danes’ unofficial name for a Danish/ Nazi corps that was established in early 1944 during the Danish occupation. The purpose of the corps was to carry out guard duties at the Wehrmacht’s airfields and installations, as well as at factories in Denmark that supplied equipment to the German Air Force (Luftwaffe). The Danish Nazi and fighter pilot Captain Poul Sommer was appointed to lead the corps. He had recently returned from the Eastern Front. The corps comprised between 800 and 1,000 men, who were mainly front-line soldiers from the Schalburg Corps. The members of the corps were heavily armed and wore black uniforms. A group of about 20 men broke away and formed a terrorist group , which among other things drove around the streets in trucks and shot at civilians during the people’s strike in Copenhagen in 1944. The corps was disbanded in February 1945. Several of the members were transferred to other corps in German service such as the Hipokorpset.
