SA Feldherrnhalle Cufftitle
Price: $1095
BUY / RESERVE THIS ITEMDescription: machine woven, tan rayon construction cufftitle with a repeating, interwoven, waffle pattern. BeVo machine-woven “Feldherrnhalle” in silver/gray Sütterlin-style script .The cufftitle is bordered at both the top and bottom edges in six strand, horizontally woven, silvery/gray celleon threads. The reverse of the cufftitle has loosely woven, vertical, silvery/gray celleon threads around the script and the script is in a tan rayon mirror image of the obverse. Uniform removed with ends still sewn together from uniform-cuff w/ partial RZM tag remaining.
BACKGROUND: The Feldherrnhalle, (Hall of Generals/Heroes), in Munich was the site of the unsuccessful 1923 Beer Hall Putsch in which the NSDAP attempted to seize governmental power and in which sixteen NSDAP members were killed by the police. After the NSDAP gained power in January 1933 the Feldherrnhalle became a national shrine for the sixteen “assassinated martyrs” of the party. Shortly after the purge of the SA in June 1934 the newly appointed SA-Stabchef Viktor Lutz established the SA-Wachtstandarte to guard the NSDAP’s offices and allotted it the honor title Feldherrnhalle. Sometime in the mid to late 1930’s personnel serving with SA-Wachtstandarte Feldherrnhalle were allotted an honorary “Feldherrnhalle” cufftitle. August 1942 the 271ST Infantry Regiment, a component of the 93RD Infantry Division, which consisted largely of SA volunteers were also authorized wear of the same “Feldherrnhalle” cufftitle as the SA-Wachtstandarte. In July 1943 distinctive new shoulder board/strap cyphers were introduced for wear by both the SA-Wachtstandarte and the army’s Feldhernhalle units. In 1943 the 271st Infantry Regiment Feldhernhalle was detached from the 93rd Infantry Division to form the nucleus of the newly forming 60th Panzer Grenadier Division Feldherrnhalle and divisional personnel were also allotted the honor cufftitle and shoulder board/strap cyphers. Further expansion and additional units including the PanzerKorps Feldherrnhalle consisting of the Panzer Divisions Feldherrnhalle 1 and 2 were also allotted wear of the honor cufftitle and shoulder board/strap cyphers.
