Original WWII German POLICE NCO’S M43/OVERSEAS CAP INSIGNIA. (Mützenabzeichen) Brought Home By A U.S. Soldier Certified

Original WWII German POLICE NCO’S M43/OVERSEAS CAP INSIGNIA. (Mützenabzeichen) Brought Home By A U.S. Soldier Certified. Shortly after Adolf Hitler and the NSDAP, Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, (National Socialist German Worker’s Party), ascended to the leadership of Germany, the police, as with almost all civic organizations, incorporated the new style national eagle and swastika on their insignia. The first pattern police insignia to utilize the new style national eagle and swastika was introduced on April 23RD 1934. On June 17TH 1936, Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler was appointed to the newly created position of Chef der Deutschen Polizei im Reichsministerium des Innern, (Chief of the German Police in the National Ministry of the Interior), effectively giving him full control of all police agencies within Germany. As a result of this appointment and the restructuring of all the separate German state police into a single national police force new regulations were instituted to bring about uniformity in dress for all police through-out the country. One of the new uniform regulations of June 25TH 1936 was the introduction of a slightly modified second pattern police eagle and swastika to replace the first pattern. The police pattern national eagle was worn on all types of headgear including the visor caps, overseas cap and the M43 field cap. The Weimar Reichswehr, (National Defense Force, circa 1919-1933), era oval black, red and gold cockade was replaced with a circular cockade in black, white, and red on March 14TH 1933 and was adopted by the Police in April of that year and was utilized through-out the Third Reich period. The insignia utilized on the visor caps was of stamped metal construction while the insignia on the soft caps was generally machine embroidered or woven. Generally, officers’ ranks utilized bright silver/aluminum wire on their insignia while NCO’s utilized silver/grey threads. The insignia consists of a machine woven black rayon base featuring a machine woven, second pattern, (Circa June 1936-May 1945), right facing, police cap eagle with out-stretched wings, clutching a wreathed, canted swastika in its talons, encompassed by a vertically oval, oak-leaf wreath all in silver/white rayon threads. Nice!  In overall excellent, cap removed condition.  Nice example with expected used U.S. Veteran bring-back condition.  A Scarce and very good-looking Eagle! Gettysburg Museum Certified (COA) provided. Rare 100% Guaranteed to be authentic. Sold for historic purposes only. See our other pieces on our web site.  Also note when browsing our web site there are several pages of items, at the bottom of the list look for other page numbers. Don’t miss it!