Germany, SS. A Rare Pair of Private Wartime Portraits of Waffen-SS Foreign Volunteers

(Waffen-SS Porträts). A pair of private wartime portraits featuring rare depictions of Waffen-SS foreign volunteers, including:

1. One depicting the wedding day of an SS-Untersturmführer of the 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking, in full uniform and wearing a 1939 Iron Cross II Class, an Eastern Front Medal, and a DRL Sports Badge, clutching a lion head dress sword in his left hand, with the same sleeve clearly displaying a divisional cuff title, the reverse in unused postcard format and bearing an Agfa paper logo, measuring 9.5 cm (w) x 14 cm (h), a rare and razor-sharp depiction of an individual who was likely a German Officer commissioned to serve among men partially recruited from Scandinavia and the Low Countries, in extremely fine condition.

2. One depicting an SS-Mann in a service tunic, the reverse notably bearing a handwritten deduction in Croatian, dated 5 May 1944 and featuring a handwritten Croatian language dedication, flanked by a Brzeżany studio mark (Ukrainian SSR), measuring 8.5 cm (w) x 13 cm (h), a rare personalized image of a Croatian Waffen-SS volunteer on the Eastern Front in extremely fine condition.