Here is an updated pic WITHOUT the "studentenbund" knife...let's just pretend it was never in the photo and all be friends.
Maybe you misunderstood a bit? It is not about disagreeing, or about controversy, the knife you have with the Studentenbund badge,
cannot be a real item, - in the form it is presented in - as there simply was never such a knife.
Not for the Students, DJ or the BDM. The insertion of a Studentenbund diamond into the handle is a post war creation, it is pure fantasy. There is no need for any discussion, there is in fact nothing to discuss, your "Studentenbund version " knife is not a real Third Reich item, end of story.
What may well be the case, is that the knife is 100% genuine, and the Student badge also 100% genuine, so "real items, real parts"
but married after the war by a crook (or a collector who thought it belonged there) - a 100% fantasy combination.
You can blame people like Tom Johnson and Tom Wittman, who have been touting and selling these kinds of fantasy combo`s since Adam was a boy.
If you take a banal item, and add another non-related item to it, you can invent a grand story and sell it for much more.
HJ knives with black, pink, green, blue diamonds.... HJ armbands in blue instead of red, HJ camping axes, HJ pocketknives, HJ corkscrews...... etc.....the list is very long, as are the fables used to sell them.