{"product_id":"waffen-ss-german-grenadier-advancing-with-k-98-wearing-kharkov-parka-1944-45","title":"Waffen SS German Grenadier Advancing with K-98 wearing Kharkov Parka, 1944-45","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy the winter this figure depicts, the Waffen-SS was no longer the force of its own legend. It had begun as a small volunteer corps with strict physical and racial entry standards; by 1944-45 it had swollen toward 900,000 men and those standards had quietly collapsed. Conscription filled the ranks. Whole divisions were raised from foreign recruits and ethnic Germans across occupied Europe — Dutch, Baltic, Balkan, French — until well over half the Waffen-SS was not German at all, and one armored division was built around seventeen-year-olds from the Hitler Youth. The elite was a story the SS told about itself, and by the last winter of the war it was mostly just a story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe grenadier drives forward with his 98k held low, the hooded Kharkov parka worn green-side-out over camouflage trousers, a scarf wound at his throat. Though the parka takes its collectors' name from the Eastern Front, garments like it were still being worn in the winter of 1944-45 in the West, in the snow of the Ardennes. He falls in with the other men in the same parka — the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/waffen-ss-rifleman-in-kharkov-parka-advancing\"\u003eRifleman Advancing with Caution\u003c\/a\u003e and the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/german-waffen-ss-in-kharkov-parka\"\u003eGrenadier Getting Up to Move\u003c\/a\u003e — and with his opposite number in camouflage smock, the \u003ca href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/waffen-ss-grenadier-advancing\"\u003eSS Grenadier Advancing with K98\u003c\/a\u003e. Three men advancing at different tempos make a more convincing diorama than three men firing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eW. Britain model 25338. 1\/30 scale, matte-painted metal. Single figure — a Waffen-SS grenadier in a Kharkov parka advancing with a 98k. Boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49381753356516,"sku":"25338","price":81.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/25338_right_grey_9C73F29B0B3E9.webp?v=1783798290","url":"https:\/\/breagans.com\/en-ca\/products\/waffen-ss-german-grenadier-advancing-with-k-98-wearing-kharkov-parka-1944-45","provider":"Breagans","version":"1.0","type":"link"}