Hermann, some of your comments amaze me. When one realizes that the FIRST attempt at identification of any of the daggers appears on the scene in 1958 and there were NO authorities who had any idea of what daggers were associated with which units or people, how would you expect any research or attempts at dagger authentification would have been done?? I was already collecting at that time and believe me, no one really cared and the only reproductions were the parts pieces that the GIs brought back by themselves. I think that with Fred at the MAX Show Seminars and the roundtable discussion, there will be enough people who have been in the hobby for over 50 years that we will be able to debunk most of this arguement.
