Roles and Missions of RZM d. NSDAP

[Friedrich-Berthold]

Apropos para 12

Picture courtesy Robert H.

[DrCMH]

Many thanks to F-B and HPL2008 for their efforts in adding depth and context to the collections we hold. Thank you both, you are real gentlemen.

Kindest regards,

CMH

[Friedrich-Berthold]

The struggle for context is more arduous than it should be, really. Thanks fot the kind words, which are most deserved by our



German friend who is more generous with his time and knowledge than am I.

I imagine the bulk of these books were tossed out after 1945 and are long gone.

[Friedrich-Berthold]

The details of the past are so scattered and incomplete.

[Anders S]

The details of the past are so scattered and incomplete.

Very very true.

[Anders S]

http://deutsches-wehrkundearchiv.de/resources/E-116.pdf

Some originals from above can be seen here:
Nazi Uniform Manufacturer Magazines DUZ

[Dimas]

Promotet to article to the main page as a interesting article

[Friedrich-Berthold]

http://deutsches-wehrkundearchiv.de/resources/E-116.pdf

Some originals from above can be seen here:
Nazi Uniform Manufacturer Magazines DUZ

Unless you want to spend more than a grand on these for the sake of fun, instead buy the UM CD for a fraction of the price. Thanks, Anders, for the nice addendum. The insert on the RZM having opted out of the W SS uniforms ca. 1943 only reminds us of a well known fact as of said date.

[Friedrich-Berthold]

The break down of the regalia materials, industries and crafts as per the licenses....

These pages were also published in Bender's magazine some years ago.
These categories are revealing of the shape of the whole, and also highlight that the available data on said entities is woefully lacking. The licenses of the metal working (badges, buttons and daggers and such) is well received, but the rest is surely not. Nor will it likely ever be, since this compendium is from the second year of the III. Reich. The subsequent changes were included in the RZM circulars.

The entries under A 2, by the way, i.e. Muetzenmacher makes a mockery of the secondary literature in the English language on this subject as well as the interpretation of same especially on the goofy maroon site. The vast majority of artisan cap makers remain unknown to the acolytes of Saint Robert of Lubstein.

[Friedrich-Berthold]

None of this here makes sense without the series of laws for the protection of party symbols, uniforms, regalia pi pa po that were promulgated in the period 1933-1935, which are to be had on other websites. The Heimtueckegesetz of 1934 is the key here.