Don,
I couldn´t agree more.
By posting a link where one finds the explanationthat an antique traditional farmer´s chest bears - almost - the same carved dedication makes mine even more real.
Instead of that he claims without further details:
"...and you will soon realise you have a nice vinatge Laundry chest or farmers chest..given from the parents to their daughter for her wedding..mostly with a good Bale of Linen."
Exactly that is what SS cultural items were meant to be, how they were defined by Himmler, Darré, Weitzel, Weigel and other responsible SS-members being active in the cultural sector and development of the SS:
To continue and re-awake the traditional spirit, design and craftmanship of the artisans and farmers in the Reich as it had already been presented until the uprise of industrialization within the 19th and early 20th century - that century was seen as the evil itself:
- uprise of capitalism and replacing the worthful handmade peasant furniture pieces and style by mass-produced politically left-winged based ideas, concepts and products since the end of WWI, Art Déco design (for example chairs made of metal and chrome and the provoking design in which these furniture pieces came along) and the so-called german Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau.
These were defined the cultural enemies of the NSDAP and especially the SS - and after the election of Hitler in 1933 the Bauhaus was immediately closed.
The crusade of culture had started - at the end of 1933 the first official exhibition of the DHW started in Berlin - maybe that helps to get the picture.
Oh - and yes, my chest is still an original cultural product of the SS.
You need more background info?
You still got questions regarding this chest?
I am happily looking forward to any well-based opinions brought forward in a decent manner which enables to turn this thread and discussion into something creative and worthful again - because that´s what culture is all about.
I couldn´t agree more.
By posting a link where one finds the explanationthat an antique traditional farmer´s chest bears - almost - the same carved dedication makes mine even more real.
Instead of that he claims without further details:
"...and you will soon realise you have a nice vinatge Laundry chest or farmers chest..given from the parents to their daughter for her wedding..mostly with a good Bale of Linen."
Exactly that is what SS cultural items were meant to be, how they were defined by Himmler, Darré, Weitzel, Weigel and other responsible SS-members being active in the cultural sector and development of the SS:
To continue and re-awake the traditional spirit, design and craftmanship of the artisans and farmers in the Reich as it had already been presented until the uprise of industrialization within the 19th and early 20th century - that century was seen as the evil itself:
- uprise of capitalism and replacing the worthful handmade peasant furniture pieces and style by mass-produced politically left-winged based ideas, concepts and products since the end of WWI, Art Déco design (for example chairs made of metal and chrome and the provoking design in which these furniture pieces came along) and the so-called german Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau.
These were defined the cultural enemies of the NSDAP and especially the SS - and after the election of Hitler in 1933 the Bauhaus was immediately closed.
The crusade of culture had started - at the end of 1933 the first official exhibition of the DHW started in Berlin - maybe that helps to get the picture.
Oh - and yes, my chest is still an original cultural product of the SS.
You need more background info?
You still got questions regarding this chest?
I am happily looking forward to any well-based opinions brought forward in a decent manner which enables to turn this thread and discussion into something creative and worthful again - because that´s what culture is all about.
Love the runes on that one. You always find the best stuff. 
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