WW2 German elite officers uniform tunic (Otto Kumm)
High quality reproduction of a walking out dress tunic of Otto Kumm, Commander of the 7th elite Mountain Division Prinz Eugen from January 1944 - January 1945. Listing is for the tunic only with attached insignia including Kumm's 5 piece ribbon bar, Gebirgsjager patch, Prinz Eugen cuff title, and Brigadefuhrer (Major General) collar tabs and shoulder boards.
All insignia is officer grade, produced from bullion thread. Tunic was produced for a publisher photo shoot featuring Kumm's uniforms throughout his military career.
Tunic is fully lined and made of high quality feldgrau gabardine wool. Size is 44 chest, equivalent to a man's large. This tunic is part of the complete uniform produced by Beyond Courage, and is part of the Beyond Courage collection of uniforms celebrating highly decorated combatants from nations of WW2. Please visit our site for other high quality collectible uniforms and accessories.
A wikipedia history of Otto Kumm is attached below. 23 March 2004 (aged 94). Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords. Otto Kumm (1 October 1909 23 March 2004) was a German divisional commander in the Waffen-SS. And a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords.
After the war, he became one of the founders of HIAG. A lobby group and a revisionist organization of former Waffen-SS. Born in 1909 into a family of a merchant in Hamburg, Kumm trained as a typesetter and worked at a newspaper. On 1 June 1934, Kumm joined the SS- Verfügungstruppe.
(SS Dispositional Troops) and on 1 July received his first training with the SS-Standarte "Germania" in Hamburg. Kumm commanded the Der Führer Regiment of the SS Division Das Reich. From July 1941 to April 1943. This regiment was nearly destroyed in the Soviet offensive of January 1942, when it was reduced to 35 men out of the 2,000 that had started the campaign in June 1941. Kumm was a commander of the SS Division Prinz Eugen. From 30 Jan 1944 until 20 Jan 1945 and then was appointed the new division commander of the SS Division Leibstandarte.(LSSAH) as of 15 February 1945, after the division's commander Wilhelm Mohnke. As the division commander, Kumm and the LSSAH took part in Operation Spring Awakening. (6 March 1945 16 March 1945), the last major German offensive launched during World War II. The Germans launched attacks in Hungary near the Lake Balaton area on the Eastern Front. Soviet intelligence identified large German tank formations in western Hungary and developed a successful counterattack strategy.
After the failure of Operation Spring Awakening, Sepp Dietrich. S 6th SS Panzer Army. And the LSSAH retreated to the Vienna. After Vienna fell to the Red Army in the Vienna Offensive.
The bulk of the LSSAH division surrendered to U. Area on 8 May 1945. Kumm was held at the Dachau internment camp.
Administered by the US Army. Kumm avoided extradition to Yugoslavia to stand trial for war crimes by fleeing over the wall of the camp. After the war, Otto Kumm was denazified and became a businessman. Kumm was a founder and the first head of the Waffen-SS veterans' organization HIAG.
Established in 1951 to lobby for the cause of the Waffen-SS historical rehabilitation and restoration of their rights to post-war pensions. The item "WW2 German elite officers uniform tunic (Otto Kumm)" is in sale since Thursday, June 15, 2017. This item is in the category "Collectibles\Militaria\WW II (1939-45)\Reproductions\Germany". The seller is "hopeislandinn2i0o" and is located in Coupeville, Washington. This item can be shipped to United States.