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Posted 02 January 2004 11:34
Dave & Gary,
I think we can carry on with LAPO uniform discussions on this thread. One has to remember that the Landespolizei terminology is being used here as a rather generic term for the individual barracked state police forces that became units of either the nationalized Deutsche Polizei or the Wehrmacht after 1935-1936. The Bavarian LAPO is an excellent example of what happened in the other German states as Bavaria was Hitler's home base and the uniforms are strikingly similar to the post 1936 nationalized police uniform that Himmler and Frick adopted for the Ordnungspolizei. Also bear in mind that police uniforms from the time of the Weimar Republic continued to be worn until the 1936 uniform changes largely eliminated them.
Since Joe showed his excellent Freistaat Bayern Tschako, I will show an example of the LAPO M�tze. This peaked cap is made of green cloth with a black band and green piping. The militarized LAPO forces in the photos above wore the Heer style eagle and national ****ade (and sometimes a Heer style oak leaf wreath) insignia. The cap insignia configuration changed over time, evolving from just the Bavarian blue & white cocade into the NS Zeit insignia.
George
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