In general penal units didnt wear insignia, they were stripped of it and all national insignia.
If you believe sven hassel some penal units had red patches sewn on their tunics to denote them being a penal unit.
the only penal unit of any real reknown i can think of was in the DAK.
999 leichte afrika were a penal unit.
Most got used for cannon fodder and bomb disposal tasks from what i can recall.. . they definaltey didnt let em anywhere near tanks
Prisoner 4737 you are now a Panzer driver realy...................cya later I read in Black Adelwies that there were 4 SS men who were in a Penal regiment and they had to crawl across no mans land and throw grenades and blocks of explosive into Russian bunkers,also the Red patches in Sven Hassel were worn by the PUs.
If its passed 9 there is a 95% chance im pissed.
Exaclty mate, 80 per cent of the German army was horse drawn, they are so cripplingly short of armour they press captured obsolete foreign types into servcie.
Do you think for one minute they are going to give disgraced soldiers this job when there are hundreds of really unpleasant and dangerous menial jobs.
If someone s been found guilty of desertion or dereliction of duty the last hing you want to do is give them a rifle let alone a tank cannon
Sven hassle is 99 per cent fiction, great fiction but complete fiction.
Its debatable whether his autobiography's is real as well.
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
Exaclty mate, 80 per cent of the German army was horse drawn, they are so cripplingly short of armour they press captured obsolete foreign types into servcie.
Do you think for one minute they are going to give disgraced soldiers this job when there are hundreds of really unpleasant and dangerous menial jobs.
If someone s been found guilty of desertion or dereliction of duty the last hing you want to do is give them a rifle let alone a tank cannon
Sven hassle is 99 per cent fiction, great fiction but complete fiction.
Its debatable whether his autobiography's is real as well.
Never new he wrote a Autobiography will have a look for that.
If its passed 9 there is a 95% chance im pissed.
Legion of the Damned is the first book and is pretty much stand alone.
Its probably the best oe too.
Its allegedly semi auto biographical (or nicked stories form SS POWS he was locked up with after the war depending on who you believe)
Everything else is total fiction (albeit he claims based on real anecdotes) and Hassel himself admits that.
Its why they make no chronological sense and characters who die in LotD in one battle are miraculously alive later in the war in other books.
have a look at the sven hassle webiste portas kitchen
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
Legion of the Damned is the first book and is pretty much stand alone.
Its probably the best oe too.
Its allegedly semi auto biographical (or nicked stories form SS POWS he was locked up with after the war depending on who you believe)
Everything else is total fiction (albeit he claims based on real anecdotes) and Hassel himself admits that.
Its why they make no chronological sense and characters who die in LotD in one battle are miraculously alive later in the war in other books.
have a look at the sven hassle webiste portas kitchen
Ok when people say its true,no its not,it is i dont care i just enjoy reading the books Monte Cassino and Legion of the dammed were my favorite i just like the part when he meets Porta lol.
If its passed 9 there is a 95% chance im pissed.
