Ultra Early SS caps

[Friedrich-Berthold]

I did find a UK site with a number of interesting LAH images from what must be 1933 or 1934, with many nice Kraetzchen in wear.

I could not cadge the images, but I have not seen them before. I am sure these are ex Leibhusaren or otherwise surplus pre 1919 army things that were common as dirt in the 1920s.
Just as the brown shirt was adapted from ex tropical uniforms and such.

[jHAM]

I did find a UK site with a number of interesting LAH images from what must be 1933 or 1934, with many nice Kraetzchen in wear.

I could not cadge the images, but I have not seen them before. I am sure these are ex Leibhusaren or otherwise surplus pre 1919 army things that were common as dirt in the 1920s.
Just as the brown shirt was adapted from ex tropical uniforms and such.

Please share the link to these images.

[Friedrich-Berthold]

Please share the link to these images.

I have to find it again. I stumble on things, and then lose them.

[Friedrich-Berthold]

Here you go, dear friend,

http://www.foxhallmilitaria.com/allg...raph-grouping/

[jHAM]

Here you go, dear friend,

http://www.foxhallmilitaria.com/allg...raph-grouping/

Thank you very much. Your grateful pupil.

[Ganer]

Here

[Friedrich-Berthold]

Here

Bravo. Sehr schoen.

[Friedrich-Berthold]

There is an SS veterans group book on the 1st company of the LAH in which many of these similar images ca. 1933-4 appear with this field head dress.

Mr. d Alquen has one of these NCO peaked caps with the cloth peak. It is the closest most of us will get to the black Kraetzchen as worn in the SSPB, the early LAH and its predecessors.

[Friedrich-Berthold]

Here is the book.

[Friedrich-Berthold]

Between the Heimdal books in their number and this work, one has a number of interesting images in which this head wear in use. And the Heimdal books do their best to date the images, as well.