SS-Standarte "Kurt Eggers" uniform (need help)
SS-Standarte "Kurt Eggers" uniform (need help)
Need photos uniform SS-Standarte "Kurt Eggers". Second question: Whether there were any special marks (stripes etc.) at the soldier propaganda roten (PK) in Wehrmacht structure? If yes, there are no at you their images?
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The SS-Kriegsberichter cuff title was created in 1940 for members of the SS-Kriegsberichter-Kompanie, which was formed as part of the SS-Verfügungstruppe in January 1940 and saw service in the Western Campaign in May and June 1940 with the SS-VT. There also was a variation SS-Kriegsberichter-Kp cuff title, which is very rare. Mind you, the SS-Kriegsberichter cuff title is not exactly common!
With the establishment and expansion of the Waffen-SS, the SS war-correspondent unit was accordingly expanded to battalion strength (Abteilung) strength in August 1941 and was issued with the SS-KB-Abt cuff title. In December 1943, the SS-KB-Abt became a regiment and was given the honour title SS-Standarte "Kurt Eggers" in honour of the former editor of the SS newspaper Das Schwarze Korps, killed in action with the Wiking Division at Kharkov in August 1943. With the new status came the regimental cuff title Kurt Eggers.
By this time, the beginning of 1944, SS soldiers were forbidden to wear two cufftitles at once but in any case, whereas the SS-Kreigsberichter cuff titles were really just SS formation insignia, the Kurt Eggers cuff title was an honour title and members of the unit were naturally very proud of it so felt no need to wear anyone else's cufftitle.
Prior to this, SS-Kriegsberichter certainly wore two SS cuff titles together on occasion.
This could happen when the SS war-reporter had the right to wear the cuff title of his parent unit or was accorded the right to wear the cuff title of the unit to which he was attached. The Kreigsberichter cuff titles were usually worn below regimental or divisional cuff titles. The practice was formally outlawed in August 1943.
In contrast, on the other hand, there are photographs taken after this date of NCOs of the Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler in Italy wearing their divisional cuff titles together with the SS-Feldgendarmerie cuff title when on provost duty. It may have been against regulations but there cannot have been many officers or senior NCOs who would have taken an SS military policeman, especially a member of the LAH, to task for a breach of uniform regulations.
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With the establishment and expansion of the Waffen-SS, the SS war-correspondent unit was accordingly expanded to battalion strength (Abteilung) strength in August 1941 and was issued with the SS-KB-Abt cuff title. In December 1943, the SS-KB-Abt became a regiment and was given the honour title SS-Standarte "Kurt Eggers" in honour of the former editor of the SS newspaper Das Schwarze Korps, killed in action with the Wiking Division at Kharkov in August 1943. With the new status came the regimental cuff title Kurt Eggers.
By this time, the beginning of 1944, SS soldiers were forbidden to wear two cufftitles at once but in any case, whereas the SS-Kreigsberichter cuff titles were really just SS formation insignia, the Kurt Eggers cuff title was an honour title and members of the unit were naturally very proud of it so felt no need to wear anyone else's cufftitle.
Prior to this, SS-Kriegsberichter certainly wore two SS cuff titles together on occasion.
This could happen when the SS war-reporter had the right to wear the cuff title of his parent unit or was accorded the right to wear the cuff title of the unit to which he was attached. The Kreigsberichter cuff titles were usually worn below regimental or divisional cuff titles. The practice was formally outlawed in August 1943.
In contrast, on the other hand, there are photographs taken after this date of NCOs of the Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler in Italy wearing their divisional cuff titles together with the SS-Feldgendarmerie cuff title when on provost duty. It may have been against regulations but there cannot have been many officers or senior NCOs who would have taken an SS military policeman, especially a member of the LAH, to task for a breach of uniform regulations.
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The SS-KB in the photo above is wearing two cuff titles. I think this image predates the ban on this practice. There is a famous photo of an NCO of the LSSAH directing traffic in Rome in 1944. He wears both the SS-KB and LAH cuff titles on his tropical tunic. Can anyone here post this image?
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