It's Over

system · August 8, 2021, 8:06pm

Exhausted Waffen SS soldier from the 22th Waffen SS "Maria Theresia" Cavalry after the breakout from the enclosured city of Budapest. February of 1945

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.ww2incolor.com/gallery/german-forces/30753/it's-over

Gulfview · November 4, 2012, 8:26pm

The flower on the uniform was probably used in reference to the Hubsburg Empress Maria Theresia.

system · August 8, 2021, 8:06pm

flamethrowerguy · November 4, 2012, 9:08pm

Also the "Kornblume" (cornflower) was actually the symbol of the ethnic Germans in Hungary (Ungarn-Deutsche, Donauschwaben etc. pp.) of which this division mostly consisted.