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What does the STYLIZED W stand for on these SS officer boards ????
 

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DaveDavis said:
What does the STYLIZED W stand for on these SS officer boards ????
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Wallonien ? Horst Wessel ? Westland ? Wiking ? If the guys had fancy shoulder straps, I guess they also had fancy cufftitles.

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I looked up schulterklappen auflagen and found a plain “W” but not one with a loop.
 
This is the reply I received from a friend in Texas, who is a very well known expert on German WW2 insignias, he writes:

"The basic boards are signal. The piping looks strange to me, maybe just wear.
The W is for Wehrkreis (military district). I don’t believe I’ve ever seen it used as a stand alone cipher. A Roman numeral denoting the district number is always associated with it.
That’s just my two cents. Insignia for units assigned to a Wehrkreis can get complicated. I posted a thread on the Erkennungsmarke forum trying to sort out the Brucken Wach units. Nobody really knows anything about them."

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rohling81 said:
This is the reply I received from a friend in Texas, who is a very well known expert on German WW2 insignias, he writes:

"The basic boards are signal. The piping looks strange to me, maybe just wear.
The W is for Wehrkreis (military district). I don’t believe I’ve ever seen it used as a stand alone cipher. A Roman numeral denoting the district number is always associated with it.
That’s just my two cents. Insignia for units assigned to a Wehrkreis can get complicated. I posted a thread on the Erkennungsmarke forum trying to sort out the Brucken Wach units. Nobody really knows anything about them."

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This is the "W". On an SS shoulder strap, strange isn't it ?
 
yes, very strange but who knows / perhaps the owner thought I'll have a W with a twist and was a member of Westland.

Surely the Waffen SS would have no connection w/ army recruiting
 
Dave, given the fact that there are several uncertainties regarding these shoulder boards and the fact that these are so easy to manipulate, I'd rather pass on these boards. The most obvious flaw is of course as you pointed out the fact that the WSS had no connection with Wehrmacht recruiting offices.
 
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