Portrait of SS-Paratrooper (SS-Bewährungsschütze = probational Private). Note the black collar tabs.

SS-Paratrooper

Two recently dropped Fallschirmjager look towards smoke rising near to Suda Bay. Crete, 1941.

Fallschirmjager in Crete, 1941

The app. 180 paratroop helmets most probably belonged to the SS-Fallschirmjäger-Batallion 600. The helmets were found by US forces near Hagenow/Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, the place SS-Fallschirmjäger-Batallion 600 surrendered.