FlyingStukas wrote: ↑31 Jan 2020, 02:31...in Neuhammer. I vividly remember photos from the Kriegsberichter website where the divisional taylors were photographed whilst sewing the Fez...
At the time of the Grand Mufti's visit (note that the division was already half-year old), besides the officers (who wore red fezzes), only the Stabsjägerkompanie was equipped with (field-grey) fezzes and it was heavily photographed (and filmed) for propaganda purposes: lined-up and parading before the Grand Mufti, previously doing rifle drills, resting in the barracks, reading Mufti's pamphlet "Islam und Judentum"... Quote, Hartmut Schmid: "Div.-Stabs-Kp.; sie war als einzige geschlossene Einheit mit Fez ausgerüstet." (Judging by the photos, some propaganda men were also issued fezzes.) So, all those soldiers pictured with fezzes at the time basically belonged to a single company. As I wrote, photos can be quite misleading sometimes.FlyingStukas wrote: ↑31 Jan 2020, 02:45edit (in any case, the standard-issue Fez was widely distributed by the time of the arrival of the Grand Mufti, maybe even before.
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Ivan
PS
As I also mentioned before, the early field-grey fezzes (seen in the Neuhammer photos), which were too tall, were later shortened.