Question on Allgemeine-SS Shoulder Boards

[DonC]

All, were the Allgemeine-style shoulder boards used on early earth-or field -gray SS tunics in pairs, or did they switch to army-style boards immediately?

Here's the kind I am asking about:



Thanks,

Don

[Bob Hritz]

On early feldgrau tunics, the first pattern, so called Allgemeine-SS, boards were worn in pairs. This is a simple answer to a complex question. Shoulder boards evolved over time and went from the single, to the double, on feldgrau, with exceptions. The earliest shoulder insignia was very chaotic, from 1933 to 1936, when insignia was standardized. From 1936 until 1939, there were still a mixture of patterns being worn. Once the war broke out, the feldgrau for SS-VT, SS-TV, and Waffen-SS, were ordered to wear the army pattern SS shoulder boards. There are exceptions and I suggest Mollo's seven volume series to see the progression of shoulder insignia.

Bob Hritz

[Winkelman]

To complicate matters a little further ;
during the war ( part of ) the Allgemeine SS got to wear grey tunics still with initially 1 , later with 2 Allgemeine type boards .
First picture from Martin Stiles' site .

[DonC]

Thanks for the information, gentlemen - much appreciated!

Don

[Winkelman]

Here's an example of a grey tunic for Allgemeine SS , that has 2 Allgemeine style boards ;

>> https://www.weitze.net/militaria/90/...S__285090.html

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[DasReichMI]

Pointed SS-VT shoulder boards

I am curious if the pointed shoulder boards ever had the black and white or double silver and single black twisted cord sewn around like the rounded boards sometimes had?