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S012257 "SANITÄTS-ABTEILUNG", OFFICER'S CUFFTITLE. (Ärmelstreiffen)
BACKGROUND: The command structure of the SS, Schutz Staffel, (Protection Squad), was highly complex and had many different levels and offices with numerous functions. The basic regional organizational infrastructure of the Allgemeine-SS began with the SS-Oberabschnitte, (SS Districts), which corresponded roughly to the German Armed Forces, Wehrkreis, (Military District). Each SS-Oberabschnitte contained two or three SS-Abschnitte, (SS Sub-Districts), and each SS-Abschnitte was comprised of two to four SS-Fuss-Standarten, (SS Foot Regiments). Each of the SS-Abschnitte contained at least one, or more, integral, Sanitäts-Sturm, (Medical Company), to care for its personnel. The SS medical units came under the auspices of the SS-FHA, SS-Führungshauptamt, (SS-Operations Headquarters), and was commanded by SS-Obergruppenführer, and Chef der Reichsarzt SS und Polizei, (National SS Medical and Police Chief), Professor, Doctor Ernst-Robert Grawitz who was also the head of the DRK, Deutsche Rote Kreuz, (German Red Cross). Personnel serving in a Allgemeine-SS, an SS-VT, SS-Verfügungstruppe, (SS-Special Purpose Troops), or a SS-TV, SS-Totenkopfverbände, (SS-Death’s Head Units), medical unit were authorized wear of an identifying scripted cufftitle, Sanitäts-Abteilung, (Medical Detachment). The cufftitle was manufactured in two slightly different patterns with one being hyphenated while the other was not. 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 3/16" tall, 12" long, machine woven, black rayon, construction cufftitle featuring hand embroidered, Gothic styled script with an umlaut and a hyphen, "Sanitäts-Abteilung, (Medical Detachment), in bright, silver/aluminum flat-wire threads. The cufftitle is bordered at both the top and bottom edges in six strand, horizontally woven, bright, silver/aluminum flat-wire threads. The reverse of the embroidery has a ribbed, protective, black, fabric backing handstitched in place. The shortened cufftitle is in overall good condition with light to moderate age and usage toning and spots of oxidization and chafe wear to the embroidery and the border trim revealing the underlying, white, base threads.
GRADE *** PRICE $1,995.00
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