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Help! I need some guidance on SS Totenkopf collar tabs.
Hi. I feel a bit of a fraud being on such a knowledgable forum but I need some basic information about SS-Totenkopf uniform. I'm working on a film and one of our characters is an Totenkopf officer at Auschwitz in 1944 and I'm a bit confused on what collar tabs to give him. Should it be bullion/metal thread or embroidered and should it be horizontal or vertical? Was it personal preference? Help! I so want to get this correct.
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08-06-2010 10:28 AM
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Re: Help! I need some guidance on SS Totenkopf collar tabs.
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Re: Help! I need some guidance on SS Totenkopf collar tabs.
Thanks John for such an informative and speedy reply. It's all good info to have.
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Re: Help! I need some guidance on SS Totenkopf collar tabs.
By 1944, the character should be wearing a horizontal Death's Head without additional cyphers on his right collar patch.
(May 1940 regulations abolished the letters and numbers that appeared below the Death's Head emblem and changed the orientation of the Death's Head from vertical to horizontal.)
By that time, however, "SS" runes were also frequently seen worn by personnel within the camp system.
For reference, you could refer to the well-known Hoecker album:
http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/ssalbum/
And here are some images of camp personnel from the Mauthausen camp. Note, though, that most of the officers in these photographs are still wearing vertical Death's Heads:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ca...camp_personnel
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Re: Help! I need some guidance on SS Totenkopf collar tabs.
Thanks HPL2008 that's good info. I think we're going to use a horizontal death's head in silver bullion. Many thanks again.
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I have read the totenkopfverbande did the exact opposite of the totenkopf division in may 1940 and flipped the skulls to a vertical position.
The guys with the horizontal ones were people transferred in and out of the fighting division to work guard duty etc.
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