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Hooray! What a pleasant thing to read. Crush the little buggers.

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I mean you headwear books, numero 1-5 or so.

I know of know better analysis of the insignia than yours, bar none.

Would you kindly be more specific as concerns this post? Do you know of a book whereby the procurement and design process of
SS insignia is analyzed, over and above what Wim has done? I know of...

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Thanks to Peter Jenkins.

996690996691996692996693996694996695996696996697996698996699996700The whole of these runs of orders must be in the Bundesarchiv. They are also in microform from the US National Archives.

I do...

This Polish site, I think, has some useful material easily had, which might also be of use for you to understand the procurement, command and control facets
of the SS. There is some mention of...

Well, we will share with you what we do have, and if you find something good, please let us know.

We all freely and happily exchange knowledge here, except for those very few who come here to act...

Any and all SS orders are useful. They often contain issues of uniform.

Do you have a digital source of said orders?

You are welcome. Glad this very arcane knowledge is of some use.

993905Here are the types of caps in 1938.

We have most of these here on the site in various forms. Also many in their 1934 form, earlier and, indeed, later.

As Wim points out, much of the general direction followed the changes made in...

993899Here are the various kinds of caps in late 1934

993881993882993883993884993880Here is the well known RFSS tag. It was used in many ways, in many pieces of uniform, insignia and equipment.
Its use more or less ceased by 1938 with the mobilization...

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this document is from June 1934. I have not seen the document itself, only these references to it, and the results in those caps that endure. An imperfect science.
The...

993277Also very revealing is this work:

993276as is this work, too.


Dr CMH has been looking for it, and it is here, gegen hartes, gutes Geld! = USD 134.00 but worth every penny. It did not cost that new, but there you are.

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993275This recent work is also very useful on the SS in general.

Good luck. If you really do make it into the Bundesarchiv files and find something, please share it with us.

And you can also ask us questions. You won't find persons elsewhere as committed to...

There is very little sound knowledge about this regalia in the digital space. There is a surplus of collector suppositions without primary sources or a sound interpretation.

All of this suggest...

992236992237992238Mr. Shell asked who made my kepi, and both I own are made by Kuepper in Wuppertal. I also own a peaked cap of the same firm.

Here is also the cap of a member here. Courtesy...

I will let someone else put the Persoenlicher Stab RFSS finding aid in Google translate.

I have never had enough time in Germany to look in these two sets of files, not the least, because my time...

The other center of gravity is formed by the Persoenlicher Stab RFSS files, a description of which is thus:



1. Organisationsgeschichte

Als Heinrich Himmler im Alter von 28 Jahren durch...

992235The classic work from more than a half century ago is this:

We've mentioned this book a hundred times over a decade or so.

992234and, before you go in search of these files, use this.

Walter Naasner, SS-Wirtschaft und SS-Verwaltung - Droste Verlag