Any thoughts as to the different base colors of the SU soviet worker armbands?
Anything new Kyle?
--dj--Joe
No clue on the difference Joe. My guess is possibly just the extra cloth they had around or something as even the ones that are the same color, the materials are different or cheaper in quality. I actually do have this one which I have been still continuing to research more. I have gotten a reply finally from the NOID (Netherlands version of the US National Archives) and here is what they told me:
Born in Bremen on August 16, 1900. Was first commercially employed. In August 1932 he became a member of the Nazi Party, the Party in which he reached the rank of Oberbereichsleiter (circa early 1941). In the SS, he held the rank of Obersturmbannf�hrer, according to him, this was only an honorary rank. In the NSDAP he first played a role in the National Socialist Betriebszellen Organisation (the forerunner of the German Labor Front), in 1937 he was appointed Amtsleiter the Party Chancellery in Munich. From May 1940 to September 1944 he was employed by the State Commissioner as Leiter der Hauptabteilung Organisation of Generalkommissariat besonderen zur Verwendung, also Deputy General Commissioner. He mainly had to do with labor input, the Dutch Labour Front, social legislation, Winter Aid Netherlands and Dutch People Service. During the last winter of the war, he worked as an OT F�hrer in reinforcements to Elten.
As far as he participation in the Dutch NSB DAF and RAD (NAF and NAD) he is some type of leader as his name has constantly popped up with leader next to his name and lots of documents on him in their archive. Before 1941's rank of Oberbereichsleiter he was a Hauptstellenleiter and I assume the Reich part is talking about the political level Reich? With the armband itself only 2 are known to me with the paper (both 2 which includes mine were from the same source) and 3 others are around without the paper. Any translation on the bottom words as google translate isn't clear. The paper states how he to not let anybody else use it and return it by thr 13th of September 1939. But Reichsparteitag 1939 never happened so he never wore the armband and all 5 would have been in storage somewhere where ever the veterans who brought back the 2 groups of them found them.
Photo of him. The caption says the middle man, but which one as there is 2 close to the middle... another armband is in the mail here but I won't post it until it arrives with my photos
