Hello,
I could recently akquire an (unfortunately damaged) DJ/HJ-shirt from my homestate Mecklenburg. I think You will agree, that insignias from Mecklenburg are hard to find. Reason will be, that Mecklenburg always had less inhabitants than other German states and that means of course less HJ-members. And the other reason is, that it was mainly occupied by the Russians and later becaüme part of communist East Germany. So there were only a few months after the war that the British and Americans could take some souvenirs from the occupied western regions of Mecklenburg. For good reasons everybody in Mecklenburg tried his best to get rid of all Nazi-related stuff to not make their way to Sibiria...
After years I finally found this shirt with the Mecklenburg triangle and shoulderboards 758 from Mecklenburg (Hagenow). But as You will recognize the shirt is DJ with sigrune patch and the shoulderboards are HJ. Also the shoulderboards are sewn and don't have numbered buttons. As the complete shirt was cheaper than sometimes the market orice of the triangle alone I don't think that somebody spend work on that and faked the whole thing. It's just hard to find a psir of the aporopriate shoulderboards and most fakers would not even care I guess.
I know, that after 1943 there was already a shortage of HJ-insignias. So could it be, that a DJ-member just used the HJ-shoulderboards because he could not get the right DJ-boards? What do You think? Ever seen a similar shirt with mixed DJ- and HJ-insignias and without numbered buttons?
Also is there a reason why we see in general much more HJ-shoulderboards on the market than DJ?
Best regards and best wishes for the new year,
Thomas
I could recently akquire an (unfortunately damaged) DJ/HJ-shirt from my homestate Mecklenburg. I think You will agree, that insignias from Mecklenburg are hard to find. Reason will be, that Mecklenburg always had less inhabitants than other German states and that means of course less HJ-members. And the other reason is, that it was mainly occupied by the Russians and later becaüme part of communist East Germany. So there were only a few months after the war that the British and Americans could take some souvenirs from the occupied western regions of Mecklenburg. For good reasons everybody in Mecklenburg tried his best to get rid of all Nazi-related stuff to not make their way to Sibiria...
After years I finally found this shirt with the Mecklenburg triangle and shoulderboards 758 from Mecklenburg (Hagenow). But as You will recognize the shirt is DJ with sigrune patch and the shoulderboards are HJ. Also the shoulderboards are sewn and don't have numbered buttons. As the complete shirt was cheaper than sometimes the market orice of the triangle alone I don't think that somebody spend work on that and faked the whole thing. It's just hard to find a psir of the aporopriate shoulderboards and most fakers would not even care I guess.
I know, that after 1943 there was already a shortage of HJ-insignias. So could it be, that a DJ-member just used the HJ-shoulderboards because he could not get the right DJ-boards? What do You think? Ever seen a similar shirt with mixed DJ- and HJ-insignias and without numbered buttons?
Also is there a reason why we see in general much more HJ-shoulderboards on the market than DJ?
Best regards and best wishes for the new year,
Thomas
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