As this inquiry is regarding if A-SS wore two shoulder boards my answer was that SSVT uniforms had 2 shoulder boards and they came in different colours in different years..
Andreas, you are always the diplomat, but you stated in your 1st post that you was assuming he is taking about a black tunic.
I actually own a Generals A-SS With only one shoulder board.
Last edited by Silberkreuz; 05-03-2015 at 07:08 PM.
a grey Allgemeine SS uniform with two shoulder boards.
Grey Allgemeine SS uniforms are actually extremely rare.
Grey Allgemeine SS uniform with two shoulder boards, whereby the bulk of the Sturm or Sturmbann or whatever retain the black uniform. AN undated image.
Like many I would be interested to see the actual item that started this thread, but in the interim here is a page from one of my notebooks that confirms that the double straps were an authorized aspect of SS uniforms. This may have only have been an early practice as, looking at Himmler's 1937 dress regulations for the Allgemeine-SS, it states quite categorically that all members wear only one strap.
It was even slightly more complex than the two descriptors you mention when it comes to the shoulderboards themselves. Here is a document that I found interesting. It refers to the introduction of boards for the new field grey uniform and uses "Achselstuecke" to refer to the traditional boards for leaders that were unchanged from the Allgemeine-SS pattern and "Achselklappen" to indicate the new army style cloth boards for the rank and file.
Thanks for all your very fine documentary work and sharing these fine things with us here, and as you have for years.
Always a pleasure...
post 35 means the leather shoulder-belt was the double version
leather shoulder-belt and has nothing to do with a shoulder-strap.
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