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S011857 "GRENZ-POLIZEI" OFFICER'S CUFFTITLE. (Ärmelstreiffen)
BACKGROUND: The German Customs Service can be traced back to 1834 when a Customs Union was formed to allow the separate German States to trade amongst themselves without trade and tariff taxes, while still imposing import trade taxes on other European nations. With the unification of the German States into a single nation in 1871 the Customs Service became a national paramilitary organization, under control of the Reichsfinanzministerium, (National Finance Ministry), in Berlin. The national Customs Service was still responsible for imposing and collecting import trade taxes but was also tasked with border defence duties. On July 31ST 1933 the Customs Service was augmented with SS personnel who were to assist in all national border defence and security. Personnel assigned to these units were designated Hilfsgrenzangestellte, (Auxiliary Border Personnel), and were authorized an identifying cufftitle, "Grenz-Polizei", (Border-Police). In May 1937 control of the Grenz-Polizei came under the auspices of the RSHA, Reichssicherungshauptamt, (Central Security Department), under the command of SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich. In October 1941 the Grenz-Polizei were disbanded. Of Note: The RZM, Reichzeugmeisterei, (National Equipment Quartermaster), was official founded in June 1934 in Munich by the NSDAP as a Reich Hauptamt, (State Central Office), and was based on the earlier SA Quartermaster’s Department. The functions of the RZM were not only to procure and distribute items to Party formations, but also to approve chosen designs and to act as a quality control supervisor to ensure items manufactured for the Party met required specification and were standardized. Starting in late 1934 items manufactured for the SS came under the quality control of the RZM and were marked by a cloth RZM/SS approval tag. The dimensions and design of these cloth tags was altered in 1935 and this second pattern tag remained in use until early 1938, when it was replaced by a paper tag. In 1943 the Waffen-SS assumed full control over their uniform item production and no longer fell under the authority of the RZM.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Roughly, 1 1/8" tall, 18 3/4" long, full length, machine woven, black rayon construction cufftitle with machine woven, Latin script, "Grenz-Polizei", (Border-Police), in bright, silver/aluminum flat-wire threads. The cufftitle is bordered at both the top and bottom edges in seven strand, horizontally woven, bright, silver/aluminum flat-wire threads. The full length cufftitle has folded over, machine stitched ends. The cufftitle is in overall excellent, unissued condition with minimal age toning. Scarce cufftitle.
GRADE ****1/4 PRICE $3,345.00
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