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    Dirlewanger Collar Tab--WHY SO MANY??

    I really can't remember. Did the Dirlewanger military formation ever achieve a designation as a legitimate division?? Even if they did get called a division, were their ranks ever filled out with the appropriate T/O of personnel?
    It seems like there are a lot of collar tabs for the Dirlewanger outfit. Most of them are legit, but they sure did seem to crank out a largely disproportionate amount of them at the Dachau clothing depot in relation to other collar tabs. Or is this just my imagination?. Any thoughts on this? Anybody care to express their thoughts on the subject?
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    They were planned to be a division and the contractor for the tabs probably made enough in one shot for a division and then some. Once the machines were set up to make them they could probably run out 20k in a day or two. I would imagine this was the case with all the volunteers patches. The big question is where are the British ones?

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      Good question. It's reasonable to assume that a lot of the insignia found at Dachau were manufactured in the second half of 1944 for formations which were planned around then, but many of which were never formed (like, for example, the 29th RONA division) or which didn't last very long (like the Skanderbeg division), and thus never used the insignia. The 'Dirlewanger' formation became a division in early 1945 but many of its members at that time were soldiers from the army, drafted in to make up the numbers, and I suspect they continued to wear normal army insignia, rather than badges which would have identified them as convicts.

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