Ryan:
The things make the Himmlers very desirable:
1) They are SS daggers, the most notorious of the German armed forces and as fanatical and political as possible with heroism and atrocities galore.
2) Himmler was an infamous leader and a weasel with a reputation as one of the most ferocious and fanatical of the SS.
3) The Himmler daggers make up a very small subset in numbers of the total SS daggers produced.
At the same time, Rohm, although an early follower of Hitler and Nazism, was declared a traitor as well as a homosexual (I think the latter was the worse in the eyes of the Nazis) and, while well liked by most rank and file members of the SA and SS, had his reputation and daggers suppressed by the leadership.
I sure wish that SS guys like Tom W or Tom J or JR would chime in on this conversation.
John
