Derek,
There is NO support at all in period documents for the nomenclature we use on these fancy daggers that I have ever seen. I hoped I had made that clear.
The original Rohm dedication daggers were called "Ehrendolch" in the document that the SS guys got. The seniority/service needed to get one of those is known from period documents, as is the number issued. That (Ehrendolch)was the terminology at the time.
The fancier daggers came out sometime after Rohm was killed but no one has turned up any period documentation saying what they were officially called, how many were awarded, or what the criteria was.The SS ones are usually called Honor Daggers and the SA ones often called High Leader Daggers, but that is a name hung on them by collectors, not the Germans.
Dave
