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Product Description: An RZM SS Runic Tab Set in overall nice condition. The RZM SS Runic Tab features nicely embroidered SS runes on a black wool base. The SS runes have a mild patina from either storage or daily wear during the period. The edges of the tab show that it was once sewn to a uniform and still has remnants of the attachment thread. The reverse of the RZM SS Runic Tab shows a typical lattice buckram base the tab is constructed over. The blank rank tab is also constructed of a black wool base material, with evidence of being sewn to a uniform. The reverse side of the rank tab also shows a buckram backing, but of a finer weave. While the buckram backings don’t match, the set came to us together, and so we will offer them together as a set. While not totally matching due to the reverse buckram differences, the obverse side of the tabs display nicely as a Tunic Removed RZM SS Runic Tab Set.
Historical Description: Regulations for the SS Collar Tab went through quite an evolution in just a short 16-year period. The first SS Collar Tabs were introduced in 1929 by Heinrich Himmler as part of the newly introduced SS uniform code. Initially, tabs were worn by both lower rank SS men and their senior leaders. Lower ranks would wear a rank tab as well as a numbered unit identification tab, with senior leaders wearing their rank tabs on both collars. In 1933 the well-known “SS” runic tab was adopted by Hitler’s personal bodyguard detachment, the “Leibstandarte” or “LAH”. The LAH used this runic tab in lieu of the numerical unit identification tab to identify them as members of the elite unit protecting the “Führer”. In 1934 the runic “SS” tabs were again adopted for use by the early “SS-VT” units. This adoption eventually led to the widespread use of SS runic tabs by German Divisions; the later non-German volunteer units would not be permitted to wear the runes, and bore their own unit designed patch instead. SS Collar tabs can be found in an extraordinary variety of numbers, designs, and pipings depending on unit and rank, from hand-embroidered tabs worn by officers to mass produced embroidered and machine woven types that were used on combat uniforms.
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