Are there earlier Hoffmann reportage images of the LAH preserved in the US NARA, that is, say prior to this fall of 1935 set of photos? The French published Heimdal volume on the LAH seems to include many of these, does it not? My source does not explain whether the open collared uniform experiment in the Rw was abandoned because of nationalist opposition, although such was surely likely in 1928. My point is that the SA/SS uniform of 1932 followed a Rw example the existence of which I had not known as well as a British or French or even US prototype. In the 1950s, there was much objection to the new Bw uniform, as well, and to the abandonment of field grey, the dice shaker boot, &c. with the grey monkey jacket of the Bw. The piece about the dagger vs the Degen was told to me by an officer of artillery (des deutschen Heeres...) in the middle 1970s. The photos are wonderful and it is nice to know they are Heinrich Hoffmann images.