SMGQ-0319 Frithjof Elmo Porsch Stolen valor Knights cross Signature

An authentic post war signature on 4x6in semi gloss photo print. Done in black marker. An interesting case of German stolen valor. This guy basically decides to write himself into the history books by become an author and writing highly fictional and at best, over exaggerated stories and accounts of the war. Then, he takes photos of himself after the war with all kinds of medals that he didn’t earn (and there are no records of him receiving) and tries to pass them off as proof of his award stature. So, as some would believe, he is not a true knights cross holder, or even a German cross holder. I think he even tried to say he was awarded a general assault badge for 75 engagements.

He was in the Waffen SS and he did receive some lower level awards and i believe even a close combat badge in gold. So he was certainly well decorated, just not to the level he would have you believe. It’s likely that in his mind, he qualified for these higher awards.  His signature is collectible for the sole reason that his whole post war life was a farse and he has become more famous for this then his actual accomplishments. If you poke around a bit and do your own research you will laugh no doubt.

From Wikipedia:

Frithjof Elmo Porsch (born October 19, 1924 in Hamborn ; † November 7, 2015 ^[1] ), who published under the name Ingo Petersson , ^[2] was a German writer and from 1941 to 1945 a member of the Waffen SS .

Life

The son of a sea officer spent his youth in Brandenburg , where he attended elementary school. After graduating from school, he began training as a sheep and horse breeder.

In January 1941 he joined the Waffen SS and served in the SS Totenkopf Division . After a refusal to give orders , he was transferred to SS-Fallschirmjäger-Bataillon 500 in 1943 , which was also the probation battalion of the SS. Most recently SS-Obersturmführer , he was a Soviet prisoner of war for a year after the end of the war . ^[3]Caused by a shot in the lung during his active service, he is said to have been unable to work after his release from prisoner-of-war. He returned to Duisburg and earned his living by raising sheep and chickens. At the beginning of the 1990s he lived in retirement in East Frisia.

Works

Porsch wrote a total of five books in which he describes, mostly autobiographically, the experiences of the Untersturmführer Vorwärts during and after the Second World War . In the style of Landser literature, the books ignore the critical examination of the past and the war crimes committed by the Waffen SS and pay special attention to the portrayal of bravery, comradeship and soldier glory.

The publications appeared in 1959 in the Vowinckel publishing house in the 1970s in the publishing KW contactor , the right-wing extremist NPD close stands, ^[4] and, since 2008, partly in NPD’s German voice Publishing House. The book Ein sonderlicher Haufen was indexed in November 1960 and again in January 1973 by the Federal Testing Office for writings harmful to minors . ^[5] The indexing in 1960 took place at the request of the Bremen Senator for Welfare and Youth Annemarie Mevissen ; the then publisher tried unsuccessfully for years before the administrative court in Cologne , theHigher Administrative Court for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and finally to obtain a lifting of the indexing before the Federal Administrative Court .

• A strange bunch. The saga of the Sturmbataillon 500 , Winkelried-Verlag , new edition 2009, ISBN 978-3-938392-53-9
• The escape of the Untersturmführer forward , Winkelried-Verlag, new edition 2009, ISBN 978-3-938392-52-2
• The Forest Wolves – Among the Baltic Freedom Fighters , German Voice Publishing House, new edition 2009, ISBN 978-3-935102-30-8
• Baska and her men , German Voice Publishing House, new edition 2008, ISBN 978-3-935102-25-4
• SS-Sturmbataillon 500 am Feind , German Voice Publishing House, new edition 2009, ISBN 978-3-935102-23-0