Leibstandarte Jacket Summer?

**TNcollector** · 07-16-2017, 01:39 AM

I just bought a grouping of military stuff from my neighbor. This jacket was in one of the boxes. Is this a summer uniform maybe being white? I don't know much about this item so any help would be appreciated. If I'm not posting in the right place it would be much appreciated if a moderator would move it.

Thanks, Rob

**Espenlaub Militaria** · 07-16-2017 01:39 AM

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**TNcollector** · 07-16-2017, 01:45 AM

I apologize for the photos being side ways I'm on my phone and don't know how that happened

**Friedrich-Berthold** · 07-16-2017, 02:31 AM

The white jacket is something German, but the insignia are incorrect and fake. Sorry.

**Friedrich-Berthold** · 07-16-2017, 02:35 AM

West Berlin police of early cold war with Ernst Reuter, mayor of West Berlin

**TNcollector** · 07-16-2017, 02:37 AM

Thanks for your response. It was cheap and came in a big lot of stuff to no worries. Any idea if the jacket is WWII German what branch?

**Friedrich-Berthold** · 07-16-2017, 02:39 AM

by TNcollector

Thanks for your response. It was cheap and came in a big lot of stuff to no worries. Any idea if the jacket is WWII German what branch?

I think it is post 1945, and, as I indicated, police of the FRG or West Berlin, but I do not honestly know. It is a well made garment.
FRG police things were had as early as the 1970s in US surplus stores. I know, since I still have an overcoat from the 1950s I bought circa 1971.

**TNcollector** · 07-16-2017, 04:10 AM

Thanks Friedrich you are very helpful and knowledgeable. I really appreciate it.

**BOB COLEMAN** · 07-16-2017, 05:22 AM

I agree with FB. Post war jacket with poor reproduction insignia and a fantasy cuff title Ugh!

**Friedrich-Berthold** · 07-16-2017, 08:11 PM

One issue is the firm that made this jacket, and their disposition in the III. Reich.

I have the RZM handbook, but I am not going to look up this firm.

The locale is in Berlin-Kreuzberg, I think, near the Cottbuser Tor. From what Google images indicates, no such tailor or such exists there today.

I also own a Berlin telephone book of the epoch, i.e. 1941, but I will let someone else carry the burden here.

I include a garment of or not of this firm, ca. pre 1945, at Magazinstrasse, which was after 1945 in what became East Berlin....

Happy white coats. Until the men with the white coats arrive, and nowadays, I wonder where they are....???