A
book or pamphlet "Hochlandlager Wachvorschrift" was produced for guard personnel and those on such duties during the 1934 Hochlandlager. This mentions a badge that was produced by
Gebiet 19 Hochland and given to visitors to the camp by gate personnel so that their arrival and time of leaving the area could be registered. Now, this does seem a perfectly good use for a Hochlandlager badge with a strange serial number roughly stamped onto it.
A system that worked in 1934 is unlikely to have changed much two years later so perhaps the Hochlandlager 1936 badges with the serial numbers were held in the guard huts and issued to visitors for the duration of their stay in the camp.
It makes perfect sense to me but without more evidence it remains a theory. Subsequent edit: the numbers of visitors in 1936 had to be restricted due to the increasing popularity of the Hochlandlager and this might answer the question of why there are serial-numbered badges around in the 5000 range.
Garry? so you have a 1934 Hochlandlager badge with a number on it because this is what you are implying.
Garry? You are implying that these were only made for single-useage, and had to be handed back when the visitor left?
Meaning that each visitor would need to always wear a coat with a buttonhole.
Meaning that some visitors took the badges home with them (unless all of the examples we have today were found in a Guards hut
Meaning that the maker would have been told in advance to make only 5000, meaning that they knew in advance that there would be too many visitors.
The underlined blue part, is because, well, i would like to see you take a badge like this, with no number, and then try to hand stamp numbers onto the obverse, without completely buckling the badge - meaning that the numbers were stamped on at the same time as it was being made. I know that AlexK at WAF made a stupid suggestion to this effect, but thats just a person talking without thinking, and with no hands-on knowledge of making badges. Nothing more, in fact once more, making a stupid comment without acknowledging the actual item! His pathetic: "
Oh lad, would you like your number stamped on? ok, bam bam bam bam, there you go", can be shot down, burnt, then shot again, simply because the only badges with numbers on, are those on a button hole attachment, that WAS NOT USED BY GERMAN MANUFACTURERS ! Period, end of, and anyone who wished to prove me wrong, MUST do some research, acknowledge my research into this area, and let me know where i went wrong, a simple, pre-school retort with an idiotic opinion wont do, and in future will not get a reply from me. Thats my stance on these, if you cant bring any of your own, semi-decent research to this discussion, then keep the cake-hole buttoned up!
Does not make sense at all.
Altsilber, btw, is not a material, but rather only an "effect" that was added after the badge was made. This is explained in my book, and in period articles.
Participants badge number? You will need to prove that participants even had, an individual number. If they did, then they also had an ID to go with the badge, it is that simple. (and then they did as well from 1934 to the last Hochlandlager in the war years - BDM included)
Judges badge? Laughable and out of the question, a grabbing at straws theory.
Yes Theories, and
perhaps, and
supposed, they have long taken precedence over actual factual research, so why not. I will stick to my moon theory, and say that each number referred to a specific docking station on Planet Gulu, thats right next to the moon btw.
I will continue with these later, but for now, am not going to waste my time considering o
pinions and
theories.