Every member of the (SS) family was (or should have been) in the possession of his or her personal Jul-plate. This plate made from wood or ceramic was given to each newborn child. It was decorated with appropriate symbols. During ones lifetime it was used several times a year, when objects of gifts were placed on it, as follows:
Birthday candles
New Year presents
Easter Sunday eggs
Harvest Festival apples, bread, salt
Wedding bread and salt
Funeral candle, to represent the extinguish of the light of life
Special Julteller's were manufactured for the first time during Christmas 1940.
The first type, made as from 1941 (see below), was decorated with flowers, for example snowdrops (Schneeglöckchen) (1941) or crocuses (Krokusse) (1943) or a poems (1944) and were gifts from SS-Obergruppenführer Oswald Pohl, Himmlers chief of economy (made by Allach ?? TBD).
The other type, made by Allach as from 1940, was made from white porcelain and carried national socialist symbols in relief. These plates were personal gifts from the Reichsführer-SS. The relief design showed Runes, swords or eagles and carried a heroic text, for example a citation from Friedrich der Größe found on the 1943 plate.
In 1935, the Ahnenerbe Forschungs- und Lehrgemeinschaft or Ancestral Heritage Research and
Teaching Society was founded by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, Hermann Wirth and
Richard Walter Darré.
The society published the Germanien magazines
Two new arrivals this week. The FM magazine for supportes of the SS organization will go perfectly with the FM stick pin above. I'm still missing the FM membership book.
The Allgemeine SS instruction book for the internal organization is quiet interesting reading.
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