Gold Button

[Ammersee]

Could someone tell me what type of uniform(s) this button was used on? Is that stubby eagle an early type?
This one has two fragments of cloth left on the eyelet. One is a light brown color and the other is chocolate brown. On the back, it's stamped with the RZM emblem, then M5/25. Also, it's stamped 20 1/2 m/m.
Thanks, Ammersee

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[Adrian Stevenson]

Hi Ammersee, these were worn on the NSDAP Political Leaders uniforms. I think that the design remained pretty much the same throughout it's existance?


I have moved your thread to the more appropriate forum and now your pics have disappeared! Sorry about that!

Cheers, Ade.

[Ammersee]

No problem. Here are the pics again. This is a button my grandfather brought back from the war. He gave me a small collection of items once owned by Walter Buch, and this button was among them. Ammersee

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[Bob Coleman]

Tis A Shame Your Grandfather Did Not Bring Home Buch's Tunic. It Certainly Would Be Worth A Tidy Sum Today. What Other Buch Items Do You Have?

[Ammersee]

I've got his photo album, items from his SS tunic and hat, his Reichsleiter collar tabs, a broken iron cross, a few silver coins, and several other pins and buttons. More than one of the items had broken bar pins and I think they were the "rejects" he must have discarded in a drawer or something. His main house was in Solln, outside Munich, and this was just a cabin on the lake so I wouldn't have expected his best things would have been there. No sign of Buch's Zahringer Lion Knight
2nd Class w/swords!
Yes, it's too bad he didn't take the complete tunics, though I feel very fortunate to have the things I have. My grandfather said fights erupted between his men over their new found Nazi loot. I can visualize the sad scene as a bunch of GI's with pocket knives ripped those uniforms to shreds.
My grandfather also got a US .45 from there that must have been a battlefield pick-up from WW1. It had been oak leaf engraved and had ivories. He was told the National Archives would confiscate the photo album if he mailed it home, and the .45 was still marked "US Property" and would have been taken as well. He got them home by taping the album to his chest and the disassembled .45 taped to his ankles, half on each side. He sold the .45 on Maxwell St. (flea markets, thieves and fences) in Chicago in 1946 for $300, and used the money to buy a car. He gave me all of his Nazi items in 1965. Ammersee

Below, inside cover photo from Buch's photo album. Bronze by Otto Lieber.

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