SS-Feldlazarett 504 Photo Album

One of the more remarkable discoveries during the last decade was the photo album of "Nurse Ida," a Norwegian nurse who served as a Red Cross volunteer in SS Field Hospital (Feldlazarett) 104/504. Her photo album, portions of which are reproduced here courtesy of the Kriegsbilder.net archive, are amazing, showing Ida and her fellow nurses at work and at leisure while serving with the corps' field hospital in Belarus, Poland and Hungary, where Gille's corps arrived at the end of December 1944. She began her service as a voluntary Red Cross Nurse on 5 August 1943 with the SS Hospital in Minsk until 28 June 1944 before being transferred to the IV SS Panzer Corps' field hospital on 8 November 1944. Shown in this selection (there are many more on the website), are some of the Waffen-SS medical personnel with whom she worked alongside. Usually, up to a dozen civilian Red Cross nurses were attached to each field hospital, with the number varying from unit to unit.  An amazing find that illustrates that there were women who also served in Gille's corps during the war.

 

The official Photo of Nurse Ida in her German Red Cross "Verwendungs" identity book.

A photo of two of her fellow nurses and two patients in the SS field hospital 504 west of Modlin, Poland.

During the rail journey from Modlin to Komorn (Komarno) in Hungary, the Red Cross nurses had to ride in unheated rail cars like most everyoneelse.

This depicts the loading of SS Feldlaz. 504, most likely carried out in Modlin during the last week of December 1944.

Another photo of SS medical personnel from SS-FeldLaz. 504.

In this photo, taken either in Modlin in December 1944 or in Hungary between January and March 1945, show a staff car of SS-Lazarett 504,, stenciled in black letters on the left front fender.

One of the hospital's medical officers eating a meal in the cab of a staff car, most likely photographed by Nurse Ida in late December 1944 in Hungary when the IV SS Panzer Corps was moved from Poland to Hungary for the relief of Budapest.



One of the SS hospital's medical personnel. The leather strap slung over his shoulder is not for a submachine gun, but for Sister Ida's camera! This was most likely taken in eastern Austria in the spring of 1945, shortly before the war's end.



The same officer, but in this photo the tactical symbol of SS-Feldlaz. 504 can be seen on the left rear passenger door.



An alpine view. This was most like taken between the end of March/April 1945 when the IV SS Pz.Korps was withdrawing into the Styrian Alps east of Graz, Austria.



Portions of the staff, including doctros, of SS-Feldlaz. 504



Sister Ida with one of her favorite doctors (unnamed) posing in the front door of their hospital somewhere in Poland or Hungary.



Additional photos of the Nurse corps of SS-Feldlaz. 504, apparently shortly after arriving in Hungary.



Some of the nurses posting with a few of their Waffen-SS patients, location unknown.



A photo of an unknown SS unit "moving up to the front" was taken near Minsk in late 1943/early 1944 before Nurse Ida was transferred to SS-Feldlaz. 504.



Another image of senior SS medical personnel loading their equipment on a train, most likely taken by Nurse Ida in the area west of Modlin where SS-Feldlaz. 504 was located.



Additional medical personnel shown here. Interestingly, the highly decorated soldier in the center, who bears no rank, wears the insignia on his right jacket collar of the infamous Dirlewanger Brigade. This photo was taken near Minsk, where Dirlewanger's unit was operating at the time, so he could be one of the unit's doctors, sharing the same medical facility as other SS units.

Source :
"From the Realm of the Dying Sun" by Douglas E. Nash., Sr.
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