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I wonder if they'd mind if I went and searched through the rubble!?

Anyone know what BMF stands for?

Looks like some kind of Aryan workmanship stamp to me.

A wonderful insight into the firm Bachmanns and also the firm Kubach of Mainz, another prolific maker during the TR era.

E. German Hatter Gets Ahead / The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com

Am I reading this right, 20.5 RM for an NCO hat?

File too large to upload Chris.

I too get a buzz from seeing marketing material of the period matched with the actual product.
Thanks Chris!

There within lays another problem, most of the German textile industry wasn't German.

It's an uncomfortable truth but we have to embrace and try to understand it if we are to better understand the German textile industry.

Whilst at the same time, Jewish owned textile firms and clothing manufacturing businesses were being stolen in their hundreds, perhaps thousands.

I really struggle with this hypocrisy more than...

I see, thank you dear friend.

What does that mean? you could buy a pocket or lapel?

We are all trying to get to the same destination even if we are coming from different directions.

My thanks to Andreas once again for this translation.

This highlights the need to study such...

I prefer to judge it as a totaly organic thread and all the better for it.
Some parts are better edited out though especially when I start rambling on and on! :o

Ok, I've cleaned up this thread and removed much of the recent posts regarding remastering the UM etc as this thread is plenty long enough as it is without having to read all of that as well.

Well, Marango sounds Italian but has an entry in the Spanish dictionary as being a dark grey. marengo translation English | Spanish dictionary | Reverso Collins

Marengo feuerwehrtuch is now my all time favourite cloth!

I will one day. My shame is not being able to read German but how many can read Polish? which is what most of my research is written in! Luckily my girlfriend can read Polish, Russian, Lithuanian,...

You are welcome of course and if or when I can obtain the rest of the RZM circulars, you shall be the first to know.

It's very easy to get caught up in the whole buzz of extracting original TR...

Unfortunately, any serious study of the Third Reich uniform and textile production industry will unearth uncomfortable facts about the "aryanisation" i.e. theft of established Jewish firms, the huge...

I wonder what the reaction would be if one would approach a firm like Schöning and inquire about it's 1930's and 40's history?

A wonderful brochure to have FB.

The Paul Schöning firm is still in operation I beleive. Prehaps you could drop by one day.


Paul Schöning GmbH & Co. KG

Sonja Kremer, Paul Schöning GmbH &...

I wish Dave! the advertising board was sold awhile back in the States. The box of tropical cap eagles is on the Regimentals site but the asking price is too much for me. I just want the box sans...

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These images surely belong here. The packaging is infinitely more interesting than the items themselves. I'd love to know the significance of the squirrel?

A pity there is no obvious date stamp.
Did I understand the label correctly? shipping was free but the sum of 8 RM and 20 rpf was to be paid on delivery.