Remarkable find - RZM Licence Agreement

**BenVK** · 10-01-2009, 11:15 PM

Thanks FB, I will gladly send them to you to study if you wish. That is, once the postal system has settled down again to a reasonable level of competence!

**Espenlaub Militaria** · 10-01-2009 11:15 PM

We also buy and trade your items and full collections!

**Friedrich-Berthold** · 10-01-2009, 11:24 PM

by BenVK

Thanks FB, I will gladly send them to you to study if you wish. That is, once the postal system has settled down again to a reasonable level of competence!

Thanks but I can see all the salient details through your fine pictures. My best wishes for a fine purchase of valuable and refined material.....more interesting than a funny cap badge or whatever.

The sub contractors were an important part of the whole.

**Robert H** · 10-10-2009, 06:25 PM

Is this the material that Paul recently got? Very nice and informative, I hope you can read it, otherwise you have to send it over to me

**Friedrich-Berthold** · 10-10-2009, 06:29 PM

Please show some sample pages from your Handbuch d. RZM. Wir hier sind janz nette Leute, die uebrigens und bekanntlich keine Klugscheisser sind, wie Sie es sicherlich wissen. Die Idioten verkehren anderswo.

**Friedrich-Berthold** · 10-10-2009, 06:41 PM

If one reads the conditions of the license here, it is overwhelming how bureaucratic and intrusive the Nazis were in the affairs of their licensed contractors.

**Robert H** · 10-10-2009, 09:53 PM

Friedrich, I assume this happened only once in the world history with such an overwhelming how bureaucratic and intrusive work as they did. I am always new impressed with this effort with out having any Computers technology. All hand written, type writer, copy's and a good head for the structure.

**Friedrich-Berthold** · 10-10-2009, 11:22 PM

by Robert H

Friedrich, I assume this happened only once in the world history with such an overwhelming how bureaucratic and intrusive work as they did. I am always new impressed with this effort with out having any Computers technology. All hand written, type writer, copy's and a good head for the structure.

By definition, National Socialism was a totalitarian ideology with like praxis in daily life. The regime gained ever more control of the civilian economy for reasons of ideology, of which this little bit is an outstanding part. Also, these systems were labor intensive by the standards of today, with a bureaucracy as a labor creation method decried by libertarians then and now. After all, as a Bavarian consider the size of the RZM building in its later form.

There existed antecedents to the RZM in the Zeugmeisterei of the old armies. Same is described on the Bavarian State Library website, in fact, which is quite informative. But the Wittelsbachs, Wettiner, and Hohenzollern (and surely the Habsburg) used privilege to grant contracts as a means of social control to some degree, but not to the totalitarian means and ends of the NSDAP with this system. The system was also part of the political spoils, the desire to "Aryanize" a branch of crafts and industry with military potential and reward those the regime favored. And, of course, to steal brazenly and otherwise ostracize and disenfranchise those whom the Nazis saw as enemies of the race and nation. Overall, a depressing story.

But if this firm is still in business, which I somehow doubt, they will not be pleasantly surprised to find this relic.

**Friedrich-Berthold** · 10-10-2009, 11:26 PM

Some time back, I posted another license that turned up by some miracle and ended up with a well known dealer.

**BenVK** · 10-12-2009, 08:33 PM

Robert, I'll gladly send it to you or can I scan anything in more detail for you Gentlemen?

Regarding the conditions of the license, it reminds me that my car insurance is due to be renewed!

**Friedrich-Berthold** · 10-12-2009, 09:38 PM

by BenVK

Robert, I'll gladly send it to you or can I scan anything in more detail for you Gentlemen?

Regarding the conditions of the license, it reminds me that my car insurance is due to be renewed!

Yours is a fine piece of history in capable hands. Thanks for sharing it with us. Robert H has to share some of his, too. All of this is more argument in favor of reading German, since the devil is in the detail with these things. Mastery of the details enables you to achieve supremacy in the struggle to know more and to defeat the fakes.