I saw the thread on WAF concerning the 'M' shoulderstrap but I'm not an association member over there so can't post pictures. Anyway, I remembered seeing a photo in a 1939 copy of the Westfalen HJ publication 'Unsere Fahne'. The article was written in 1939 but the photos are clearly older than that. It describes the work of the 'Funktechnische Bereitschaft' in Münster and shows a picture of a boy wearing a strap that seems to have the M on it. Now, I've personally never found anything in any publications which mention any straps with an 'M' designation so I shouldn't be seeing an M but no matter how I look at it I see one. What do you think?
Can't work out 100% what is below the "O" for Ost but Ostland or Berlin seem the only possibilities. If we assume that his shoulder strap is non-regulation and that the "M" is a "3" that has been embroidered in the wrong place and with the wrong orientation it still wouldn't match the triangle ("Ost Berlin") because Gebiet Berlin never had a Bann 3. That only leaves Ostland which did have a Bann 3 but again, why the strange orientation if that is indeed a "3"?
Can't work out 100% what is below the "O" for Ost but Ostland or Berlin seem the only possibilities. If we assume that his shoulder strap is non-regulation and that the "M" is a "3" that has been embroidered in the wrong place and with the wrong orientation it still wouldn't match the triangle ("Ost Berlin") because Gebiet Berlin never had a Bann 3. That only leaves Ostland which did have a Bann 3 but again, why the strange orientation if that is indeed a "3"?
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