Read this.....but it is a book. I learned a great deal from it. There is an older work from thr 1960s on the same subject in English, maybe it is in Google books.
Plus, I might have a slender chance if it were not for the Fraktur typeface of original publications!
You will have to look around on your own with the English language works. I spend more time in Germany with this stuff, and am lopsided because of it...
Diolch yn fawr FB, rwy'n gobeithio fod ti'n deall?
Is this Welsh or Gaelic or something?
Or pig latin, maybe. No?
In any case, the key to Fraktur are the different kinds of S's as well as the k's and maybe the p's, too. Otherwise it is fairly straight forward. I shall teach you.
You should still learn German.
My erudition is quite limited, as I keep writing here.
I'm impressed! Yes, just trying to prove a point that even in the British Isles, there are other languages alive and well.
Tis quite late here now, no work for me lately though, surgery went wrong and I'm on sick leave.
A colleague of mine taught in Wales after he graduated from Cambridge. I am sorry if you are on sick leave. I wish you a swift and happy recovery as well as less forehead pressure to boot! Celts of various kinds (Scots, generally, but also Irish) have figured in my life for a number of decades. The variety of Europe is its strength and language is a wonderful thing, indeed. This globalized English of software and business Quatsch is fairly repugnant, in fact.
Servus, FB
Last edited by Friedrich-Berthold; 08-02-2010 at 12:09 AM.
I corresponded with d'alquen about this picture, and he is of the belief that it is of the equivalent of the Heeres Kleiderkasse, the Verkaufs Abteilung der Luftwaffe (VAdLW).
I tend to agree, versus it being an effekten store.
This could be the only known pic of the VAdLW on either the Voss Strasse (up to 1938) or the Puttkamer Str. (after 1938).
The fact that the store displays only Luftwaffe items, and officer ones at that, along with the portrait of Goering hung prominently lead one to that conclusion.
IMHO, it is not really a store as such, but a showroom, where the officers can pick out the quality they want. I would assume the different visors are either by different makers (Erel, Wagner, Halfar, etc) or are there to try on for size. The trunks appear to be similar to the ones offered in the Heeres KK catalog.
Also note the token dagger with what appears to be a cape eagle in the case next to it.
I would assume the officer would examine the goods, then put an requisition order in for what he liked.
Unfortunately, I do not have a copy of the VAdLW catalog--does anyone have one to post?
“Show me the regulation, and I’ll show you the exception.”
Re: Muetzenfabrik
by BenVK
Alas, my German is none existent but thanks.
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