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This figure set contains a set of four late-war German troops in various sorts of winter dress. These figures are for the 11th SS Freiwilligen (Volunteer) Panzergrenadier Division, and with all SS units DML has left out that minor detail on the box description while clearly showing SS rank collar tabs but no runes. This division was formed of Danish and Norwegian SS troops transferred in from other divisions to form a complete Nordic division. They were beaten up pretty badly and in point of fact after the Vistula-Oder campaign most of the division was obliterated.


Be that as it may, these figures are in what could be considered par for the course for a late-war non-German division and are both clothed in a motley collection of uniforms and armed with a variety of weapons. The basic figures are an officer with winter trousers and a tan coat carrying a Panzerfaust and a Luger, a kneeling figure in winter trousers and white overcoat with a soft cap and a Panzerfaust with an MP40 slung over his shoulders, a standing figure with mountain trousers, boots and a white winter jacket with helmet and an MP44, and a figure in greatcoat with what appears to be either a Soviet “ushanka” fur cap or a German copy and a PPSh submachine gun.