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As mentioned I would make a sort of sequence.
Early 1933 uniform-booklets and color plates do not mention or show HJ daggers of any kind in wear.
This is for 100% sure! One of the first booklets, showing a dagger is "Uniformen der HJ", isued in 1933. It
was based upon uniforms and insignia, which were introduced and came into being after the July 1933 re-organization.
Here the dagger is shown with the "head" as we all know.
For a meeting for DJ leaders in April 1933 with the dress to be worn, no dagger was included. For a special meeting for
the NSDAP Party Day on August 31, 1933 it was announced that with the dress to be worn leaders had to wear the
"amtliches Fahrtenmesser der RJF" (the type as shown in the earlier mentioned booklet). This was also ordered for
DJ leaders.
A few weeks earlier, on August 10, the dagger was mentioned in relation with the summer dress (as ordered for Nürnberg),
to be worn with the brown SA-belt (the HJ buckle was at that moment not yet available). With another order from the same
day it was said: "alle Gliederungen der HJ tragen nach Möglichkeit geschlossen und einheitlich das Fahrtenmesser
der HJ. Andere als die amtlichen Fahrtenmesser der RJF sind nicht zugelassen. In short: other types of daggers
were not allowed to be worn.
It is obvious that the HJ daggers were a fact anyway in August, but simultaneously it is possible indeed other daggers (note being
he HJ version) may have been used un-authorized. In my opinion they were not the regular HJ type. The official dagger may have
come into being during the course of July. The only thing what could happen is that some manufacturers quickly did manufacturer
a dagger which was not quite the model as for the HJ, but this hardly could be done earlier then early July. Available price-lists from
April 1933 for youth-organizations do not show the regular HJ dagger, that's for sure!
Another fact is that in the "Verordnungsblatt der Reichsleitung" from August 15, 1933 NO daggers for any of the NSDAP organizations
were included and listed as "zur Herstellung parteiamtliche Ausrüstungsstücke". I guess that during a short period of a developing
stage, maybe early July, the one or the other manufacturer may have made a quantity of experimental daggers. They surely will have
been rejected as in August they already do mention the official dagger from the RJF, the amtliches Fahrtenmesser der Reichsjugendführung!
Early 1933 uniform-booklets and color plates do not mention or show HJ daggers of any kind in wear.
This is for 100% sure! One of the first booklets, showing a dagger is "Uniformen der HJ", isued in 1933. It
was based upon uniforms and insignia, which were introduced and came into being after the July 1933 re-organization.
Here the dagger is shown with the "head" as we all know.
For a meeting for DJ leaders in April 1933 with the dress to be worn, no dagger was included. For a special meeting for
the NSDAP Party Day on August 31, 1933 it was announced that with the dress to be worn leaders had to wear the
"amtliches Fahrtenmesser der RJF" (the type as shown in the earlier mentioned booklet). This was also ordered for
DJ leaders.
A few weeks earlier, on August 10, the dagger was mentioned in relation with the summer dress (as ordered for Nürnberg),
to be worn with the brown SA-belt (the HJ buckle was at that moment not yet available). With another order from the same
day it was said: "alle Gliederungen der HJ tragen nach Möglichkeit geschlossen und einheitlich das Fahrtenmesser
der HJ. Andere als die amtlichen Fahrtenmesser der RJF sind nicht zugelassen. In short: other types of daggers
were not allowed to be worn.
It is obvious that the HJ daggers were a fact anyway in August, but simultaneously it is possible indeed other daggers (note being
he HJ version) may have been used un-authorized. In my opinion they were not the regular HJ type. The official dagger may have
come into being during the course of July. The only thing what could happen is that some manufacturers quickly did manufacturer
a dagger which was not quite the model as for the HJ, but this hardly could be done earlier then early July. Available price-lists from
April 1933 for youth-organizations do not show the regular HJ dagger, that's for sure!
Another fact is that in the "Verordnungsblatt der Reichsleitung" from August 15, 1933 NO daggers for any of the NSDAP organizations
were included and listed as "zur Herstellung parteiamtliche Ausrüstungsstücke". I guess that during a short period of a developing
stage, maybe early July, the one or the other manufacturer may have made a quantity of experimental daggers. They surely will have
been rejected as in August they already do mention the official dagger from the RJF, the amtliches Fahrtenmesser der Reichsjugendführung!
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