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05-17-2016 06:01 PM
# ADS
Circuit advertisement
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Very interesting, and speaks to the collector group think of "textbook" with great clarity.
That is to say, here one has an example of reality versus the well known illustration in a secondary work. Moreover, one has the detail of the thing in the bureaucratic
mill in detail.
Thanks for sharing your research with us.
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This entire thread is awesome! Thank You for sharing everyone... Very informative and much appreciated!
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Here are translations of the two additional documents. First the award document:
"Transcription.
The Commander of the SS Aviators
Journal no. 438
Munich, 30th November 1932
Barerstr. 4/II (center), phone: 51779
To:
SS-Truppführer Franz Sido
Augsburg
Following his return, the Reichsführer-SS has now endorsed your being awarded the Badge for SS Pilots, providing it to you along with the award document after payment of the amount of 8.95 Marks.
The Commander of the SS Aviators
signed: Häfner
SS-Oberführer
For the accuracy:
SS-Fliegerstaffelführer
Standartenführer
The Commander of the SS-Junkerschule Braunschweig
A.B.
(stamp)
signed: signature
SS-Obersturmführer and Adjutant*)
For the accuracy of the transcription:
[signed]
SS-Hauptsturmführer**)
*) This entry is for the accuracy of the initial transcription of the original award document. The transcription was made at the SS officer candidate school at Braunschweig, where Sido was was serving as an instructor.
**) This entry is for the second-generation transcription of the first transcription.
Note that the recipients had to pay for their award, showing that the financial resources of the SS were still quite limited at the time.
(Of course, this was not so unusual at a time of economic hardship. Even recipients of the official airship- and tank crew members' commemorative badges issued during the Weimar period had to pay for these awards out of their own pocket.)
Also, note that 8.95 Marks was quite expensive, although this is not really surprising given that these were badges made in small quantities by elaborate hand-embroidery.
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The other document:
"Franz Sido
SS-Sturmbannführer
Braunschweig, 10th June 1937
Loeperstrasse 1/O
To the
Reichszeugmeisterei der N.S.D.A.P.
Munich
Schwanthalerstrasse.
The aluminum-embroidered SS Pilots' Badges that I require have been out of stock at the Reichszeugmeisterei for some time now.
Therefore, I request written authorization to commission these badges from a suitable local business.
I request the soonest possible delivery of this authorization and sign with
Heil Hitler!
signed Franz Sido
SS-Sturmbannführer
To the Verwaltungsamt SS
with the request for execution of this matter!
RZM
12th July 1937
per pro
signed: signature
For the accuracy of the transcription:
[signed]
SS-Hauptsturmführer
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Bravo, Andreas. You are a professor of regalia! We are so lucky to have such a generous and wise personage.
How few are like him, and more should emulate his example.
Thanks to Mr. Derek for his wonderful cornucopia of documents and the time he spent unearthing their many, many secrets.
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Young persons also do not understand the technology of the typewriter and carbon paper, as well as the bureaucratic system to assure that copies of documents
adhered to the original.
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Sales of carbon paper were once a thing of financial majesty..
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by
Friedrich-Berthold
Young persons also do not understand the technology of the typewriter and carbon paper, as well as the bureaucratic system to assure that copies of documents adhered to the original.
How well I remember learning the basics of typing on a big old Olympia typewriter before being allowed to graduate to that marvel of technology that was the IBM Selectric...
(I guess if you see me hammering away at a computer keyboard, you can still tell I come from mechanical typewriters.)
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