Original WWII German Police SCHUTZPOLIZEI NCO’S OVERSEAS CAP. (Feldmütze) Certified

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Original WWII German Police SCHUTZPOLIZEI NCO’S OVERSEAS CAP. (Feldmütze) Certified. 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 on June 25TH 1936 to bring about uniformity in dress for all police through-out the country. One of the new uniform regulations replaced the previously worn blue uniforms with a new style police green uniform that was utilized, with minor modifications, until the end of the war. The police were divided into eight assorted branches of service and during the restructuring the different police agencies were assigned specific identifying “truppenfarbe” (Troop {Branch of Service} Colors), with green truppenfarbe being allocated to the Schutzpolizei des Reiches, (National Protection Police). Nice quality, police green, wool/rayon blend construction cap features fold down back and side panels with an 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 it’s talons, encompassed by a vertically oval, oak-leaf wreath all in silver/white rayon threads. There is nice inside maker stamp and dated 1943 stamp. The cap is size 58. Nice set & rare!  Nice example with expected used U.S. Veteran bring-back condition a few small moth nips otherwise good.  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. A RARE CAP Don’t miss it!