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Earth-brown SS-VT uniform
Newbie question, please be gentle!
Could someone please post or link to a color photo of the mid-30's earth-brown Totenkopfvb. service uniform? Or provide an HSV/hex code for the shade?
Second, related query: is the repro site Stahladler correct in claiming that the grey SS dienstrock was "light grey" 1934-38, and then changed to feldgrau (as in the famous color shot of Reichsheinie on the sofa)?
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10-23-2009 03:32 PM
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Re: Earth-brown SS-VT uniform
Thank you so much, Friedrich-Berthold. So it would be fair to say then that Totenkopf erdbraun was effectively the same heathered greeny-brown as SA overcoats, and not that different from so-called "Feldgrau 44?"
Please bear with me here as I try to get all this straight, and correct me where I screw up:
At the end of 1934 or early 1935, the black uniform being impractical for daily wear, Eicke's Inspectorate of Concentration Camps (not yet the SS-TV) issued a service uniform in "erdbraun;" this was cut identically to the black, save that two epaulettes were worn. This was a working uniform only, not to be worn outside the camps.
I *think* that the sleeve-eagle didn't appear immediately. The skull cap-badge was still the jawless Danziger type until 1936. Does anyone know when the Totenkopf collar tabs started? Before 27 March 1936, one assumes- perhaps because the camp staffs and the school at Dachau didn't belong to any Standarte and thus had no number-patches? Was Eicke (who had ambitions to build his own army) playing catch-up to the LSSAH's Sig-runes?
Then by 1937-38 the SS-TV shifted to standard feldgrau uniforms of the VT/Waffen-SS type.
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The caps pictured have interesting mixtures of insignia: the side-cap with embroidered alterer Art eagle, but new-pattern SS skull button (possibly a replacement, whereas the embroiderd eagle was original????). The visor has the reverse- old skull and SS eagle. I guess during the transition period there was a lot of mixing and matching, nicht wahr?
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