WWII german tattoos

[dbloge]

Does anyone have any info about tattoos during the TR era?........BESIDES the SS blood type and the concentration camp inmates?........i suppose that tattoos were pretty rare to begin with.........in sure some KM soldats had them being stationed on port towns.......what were the tattoos of?........where were they on the body?.........anybody have any pics of them?

thanks in advance,


Dieter

[Maus_Spain]

I,m a tattoo artist and the only thing i can say is that to search tattoos of Herbert Hoffmann a famous german tattoo artist who was born in 1919 in Pommern.

The biography of H. Hoffmann

http://www.artfacts.net/pdf-files/inst/43473_cv.pdf

What happened from 1919 to 1945?

Regars, Maus.

[Peiper]

Hi guys

Here's an original photo of a Latvian SS guy, apparantly the eagle type tattoo was the
Latvian NSDAP emblem???. (I posted this pic before on another thread!)

The photo was taken after capture and the soldier was being examined by British Army
Doctors, it seems tattoos existed before and during the War but they were mostly black
inked ones in Europe.

Some coloured ones were done in China and far East but were mostly done on sailors etc,
although some pics ive seen of Foreign Legion soldiers wore coloured tattoos in the 20's and
1930's these were probably done in Indochine (now Vietnamn)
(See-below)

Latvian SS man pic 1.jpg (19.56 KiB) Viewed 10786 times

(close-up)

Latvian SS man pic 2.jpg (30.7 KiB) Viewed 10793 times

Peiper

[dbloge]

Hi guys

Here's an original photo of a Latvian SS guy, apparantly the eagle type tattoo was the
Latvian NSDAP emblem???. (I posted this pic before on another thread!)

The photo was taken after capture and the soldier was being examined by British Army
Doctors, it seems tattoos existed before and during the War but they were mostly black
inked ones in Europe.

Some coloured ones were done in China and far East but were mostly done on sailors etc,
although some pics ive seen of Foreign Legion soldiers wore coloured tattoos in the 20's and
1930's these were probably done in Indochine (now Vietnamn)
(See-below)

Latvian SS man pic 1.jpg

(close-up)


thanks peiper, i saw this on the other thread as well......the heavy metal names tattood on the guy back is a classic pic.


dieter

Latvian SS man pic 2.jpg

Peiper

[dbloge]

I,m a tattoo artist and the only thing i can say is that to search tattoos of Herbert Hoffmann a famous german tattoo artist who was born in 1919 in Pommern.

The biography of H. Hoffmann

http://www.artfacts.net/pdf-files/inst/43473_cv.pdf

What happened from 1919 to 1945?

Regars, Maus.

thanks maus, for the herbert hoffman name.......it looks like he has a few book out there as well........pretty pricey books at that.......i will keep my eyes out though


dieter

[Franz repper]

Tattoos were not seen in a good light in the TR era sorry to say other that the SS blood type they were classed as somthing gay and undiserables would have . Thats not to say people didnt have them done during the time of the TR

[dbloge]

i know that not everything in movies is accurate but.........in the movie stalingrad there is a soldat on the train in the beginning of the movie with 2 tattoos on his arm......on my tv, i paused the picture and zoomed in but the only things i could tell was that they were were blue/black and that they were round......can anybody help me out with a still pic of these tattoos?

thanks,

Dieter

[Viktor Kauer]

This guy?




Kauer

[dbloge]

thanks viktor, thats it......does anyone know what theses tattoos are of ?

dieter

[Bill Medland]

The bottom tatoo shows the emblem of "Schalke 04",
a football club based in the heart of the Ruhrgebiet (in Gelsenkrichen).

[dbloge]

a sports tattoo.....nice......they did mention some sports in the movie


dieter

[RudyWerner]

The bottom tatoo shows the emblem of "Schalke 04",
a football club based in the heart of the Ruhrgebiet (in Gelsenkrichen).

I think he said in the film he was going to be a soccar player after the war or something, he is the one who gets his legs blown off in the underground tunnels and later dies.

[barcid]

interesting subject a link to Tattoo history site http://www.vanishingtattoo.com/tattoo_museum/index.html there has been disscussion regarding tattoo's in other eras also here at Roman Army Talk http://www.romanarmytalk.com/rat/index. ... d983a9a070

[dbloge]

any other tattoo pics out there?

Dieter

[Schäfer]

I've obviously looked into this subject as we run a Kriegsmarine group and some of our members have a number of visible tattoos.

I haven't discovered much at all, to be honest. But as a previous poster here stated, they were very much frowned upon in official circles and most Kriegsmariners didn't have them, unlike their RN and USN counterparts, by comparison.