Black Private Purchase SS Officer Schirmütze

[Friedrich-Berthold]

Astounding, that rules stipulated, that the tailor/shop was not even allowed to use the 'Hoheitsabzeichen' in his own display window.

The NSDAP and the RZM stipulated that party and national symbols could not be commercialized, which frequently had happened after 1933. In reality, the swastika was a kind of corporate logo at a time in which such things first emerged, and people used it as such. However, the party was always at pains to transform its symbols and insignia into the pieces of a secular religion morphed from Christianity, ergo the prohibitions.

[Friedrich-Berthold]

The series of laws to protect party symbols and uniforms began in December 1933 with a Presidential decree and was enshrined in the famous Heimtueckegesetz of 1934 which was a cornerstone in the totalitarian rule of the NSDAP, the rupture of the state based on rule of law, and the basis for the RZM marking requirement that we know and love. Without this law, no welter of RZM tags in their variety and life would be without color. I will look in the 1935 RZM circulars for the prohibition on trade marks. It is in Herstellungsvorschriften.