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WW2 German Nazi IRON CROSS FIRST CLASS MEDAL AWARD BATTLEFIELD KURLAND RELIC FOUND
WW2 German Nazi IRON CROSS FIRST CLASS MEDAL AWARD BATTLEFIELD KURLAND RELIC FOUND
WW2 German Nazi WAFFEN SS Officer golden ring ss runes gold
WW2 German Nazi WAFFEN SS soldier personal razor
WW2 German Nazi Waffen SS Wehrmacht Krim campaign soldier. lighter
WW2 german Nazi combat SA dagger by RZM M7/42 late
WW1 World War one IRON CROSS medal award no ribbon
WW2 German Nazi NSKK motorcycle club of the Third reich moto leather pants worn
NSDAP early booklet ID with photo and stamps - ww1 veteran from n.s Deutscher frontkampfer-bund stahlhem
The Stahlhelm, League of Front Soldiers, was a military association during the Weimar Republic . It was founded shortly after the end of the First World War on December 25, 1918, by reserve officer Franz Seldte in Magdeburg . Seldte co-chaired the association with Theodor Duesterberg . The association was considered closely aligned with the anti-democratic German National People's Party (DNVP), and the Stahlhelm often provided (armed) security at its party meetings .
From 1933 onwards, the Stahlhelm was gradually brought into line by the National Socialists and dissolved in 1935. After the war, it was re-founded in 1951 as Der Stahlhelm – Kampfbund für Europa (The Steel Helmet – Combat League for Europe ).
On January 30, 1933, Stahlhelm leader Seldte joined Hitler's cabinet as Minister of Labor . Only through the support of conservatives such as Franz von Papen , Hugenberg, and Seldte, did President Hindenburg agree to appoint Hitler, whom he disliked, as Chancellor. Seldte joined the Nazi Party in April 1933. In August 1933, he became SA Obergruppenführer. He remained Reich Minister of Labor until 1945.
On February 11, the Stahlhelm merged with the DNVP to form the Kampffront Schwarz-Weiß-Rot (Black-White-Red Fighting Front) . This achieved only eight percent in the Reichstag elections of March 5. On March 24, all members of the Kampffront voted for Hitler's Enabling Act .
Himmler Security Police SIPO polizei gestapo metal truncheon whip Sicherheitspolizei
Very nice SIPO retractible truncheon.
Steel wire construction which extends from a 6 1/4\" metal tube.
for German SIPO Polizei. In very good condition.
These were used by Sicherheitspolizei during Nazi Germany. RARE
When the Nazis came to national power, Germany, as a federal state, had myriad local and centralized police agencies, which often were un-coordinated and had overlapping jurisdictions. Himmler and Heydrich's grand plan was to fully absorb all the police and security apparatus into the Schutzstaffel. To this end, Himmler took command first of the Gestapo (itself developed from the Prussian Secret Police). Then on 17 June 1936 all police forces throughout Germany were united, following Adolf Hitler's appointment of Himmler as Chef der Deutschen Polizei (Chief of German Police). As such he was nominally subordinate to Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick, but in practice Himmler answered only to Hitler.
Himmler immediately reorganised the police, with the state agencies statutorily divided into two groups: the Ordnungspolizei (Order Police; Orpo), consisting of both the national uniformed police and the municipal police, and the Sicherheitspolizei (Security Police; SiPo)rm, consisting of the Kripo and Gestapo. Reinhard Heydrich was appointed chief of the SiPo and was already head of the party Sicherheitsdienst (Security Service; SD) and the Gestapo. The two police branches were commonly known as the Orpo and SiPo (Kripo and Gestapo combined), respectively.
The idea was to fully identify and integrate the party agency (SD) with the state agency (SiPo). Most of the SiPo members were encouraged or volunteered to become members of the SS and many held a rank in both organisations. Nevertheless, in practice there was jurisdictional overlap and operational conflict between the SD and Gestapo. The Kripo kept a level of independence since its structure was longer-established. Himmler founded the Hauptamt Sicherheitspolizei in order to create a centralized main office under Heydrich's overall command of the SiPo.
The Einsatzgruppen were formed under the direction of Heydrich and operated by the SS under the SiPo and SD. The Einsatzgruppen had its origins in the ad hoc Einsatzkommando formed by Heydrich to secure government buildings and documents following the Anschluss in Austria in March 1938. Originally part of the SiPo, two units of Einsatzgruppen were stationed in the Sudetenland in October 1938. When military action turned out not to be necessary because of the Munich Agreement, the Einsatzgruppen were assigned to confiscate government papers and police documents. They also secured government buildings, questioned senior civil servants, and arrested as many as 10,000 Czech communists and German citizens.
